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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

The Smiths · 1986

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths (1986) — 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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • Take me out tonight
  • Where there's music and there's people
  • And they're young and alive
  • Driving in your car

Echo the hook

  • To die by your side
  • Is such a heavenly way to die
  • And if a ten tonne truck
  • Kills the both of us
nevertherelight

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Wheremusic and there's people

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Inever want to go home

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

And I'mno more

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Is such away to die

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

And in theunderpass

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

And I justask

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And they're young and alive

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Because I haven't got one

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I want to see life

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I just couldn't ask

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Take me out tonight

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Where ? music and there's people

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Because I ? to see people

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Is ? a heavenly way to die

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

I ? care, I don't care, I don't care

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

I don't ? I don't care, I don't care

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 "never" in the whole song?

"never"

Exercise 23

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

"there"

Exercise 24

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

  • Because I haven't got one
  • Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
  • Where there's music and there's people

Exercise 25

If you could ask The Smiths one question about "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 26

Rewrite the chorus of "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

nevertherelightgoes

Exercise 27

If you had to summarize "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

nevertherelightgoes

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • there's→
  • they're→
  • haven't→
  • don't→
  • it's→
  • i'm→

Exercise 29

Describe the mood of "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

nevertherelightgoes

Exercise 30

Imagine you are making a short film with "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?

nevertherelightgoes