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A2.1·soul·2:35

These Arms of Mine

Otis Redding · 1962

These Arms of Mine by Otis Redding (1962) — 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

  • These arms of mine
  • They are lonely
  • Lonely and feeling blue
  • These arms of mine

Echo the hook

  • And if you
  • Would let them
  • Hold you
  • Oh, how grateful I will be
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Lonely andblue

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Yearning fromyou

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Oh, howI will be

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Just be myoh

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

I need mesomebody

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Tome right, oh

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

They are lonely

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Yearning from wanting you

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Oh, how grateful I will be

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Burning from wanting you

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Wanting to hold you

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

These ? of mine

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Yearning from ? you

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Wanting to ? you

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Just be my ? oh

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

To ? me right, oh

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 "arms" in the whole song?

"arms"

Exercise 23

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

"hold"

Exercise 24

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

  • Oh, how grateful I will be
  • These arms of mine
  • Would let them hold you

Exercise 25

Who in your life would you dedicate "These Arms of Mine" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

armsholdthesemine

Exercise 26

Compare "These Arms of Mine" 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 "These Arms of Mine", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 28

The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.

armsholdthesemine

Exercise 29

If you had to summarize "These Arms of Mine" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

armsholdthesemine

Exercise 30

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

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