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The House That Built Me

Miranda Lambert · 2010

The House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert (2010) — selected for the English-through-music catalog. Use the sing-along prompts and exercises to drill pronunciation, vocabulary, and listening comprehension.

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🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • This brokenness inside me might start healing
  • Out here, it's like I'm someone else
  • I thought that maybe I could find myself
  • If I could just come in, I swear I'll leave

Sing the opening verse

  • Up those stairs in that little back bedroom
  • Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar
  • And I bet you didn't know under that live oak
  • My favourite dog is buried in the yard
thoughtknowleave

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Upstairs in that little back bedroom

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Out here, it's like I'melse

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

From thethat built me

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Nail by nail andby board

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

I thought thatI could find myself

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I got lost in thisworld

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Out here, it's like I'm someone else

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You leave home, you move on

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I got lost in this whole world

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Up those stairs in that little back bedroom

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I ? they say you can't go home again

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

This ? inside me might start healing

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Momma cut out ? of houses for years

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

This brokenness ? me might start healing

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

I got ? in this whole world

Exercise 17

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 18

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 19

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 20

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 21

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 22

How many times do you hear the word "thought" in the whole song?

"thought"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "know" in the whole song?

"know"

Exercise 24

Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:

  • From better homes and garden magazine
  • From the house that built me
  • Up those stairs in that little back bedroom

Exercise 25

And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:

  • And you do the best you can
  • My favourite dog is buried in the yard
  • This brokenness inside me might start healing

Exercise 26

Compare "The House That Built Me" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 27

If you could change the ending of the story told in "The House That Built Me", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 28

Describe the mood of "The House That Built Me" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • can't→
  • don't→
  • didn't→
  • it's→
  • i'm→
  • i'll→

Exercise 30

Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?

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