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A2.2·rock·4:15

Tonight, Tonight

The Smashing Pumpkins · 1995

Tonight, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins (1995) — 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

  • Believe in me
  • Believe, believe
  • That life can change
  • That you're not stuck in vain

Echo the hook

  • Tonight, so bright
  • Tonight
  • Tonight
  • And you know you're never sure
tonightbelievenever

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Time istime at all

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

And ourare forever changed

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

If you heldup to the light

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Thewhere you were born

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

We'llthe insincere tonight

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

We'll find a way toup the night

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You can never ever leave

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The more you change, the less you feel

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We're not the same, we're different

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But you're sure you could be right

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The place where you were born

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Time is ? time at all

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

The more you ? the less you feel

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

And you ? you're never sure

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

In your ? by the lake

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

We'll ? the insincere tonight

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 "tonight" in the whole song?

"tonight"

Exercise 23

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

"believe"

Exercise 24

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

  • That you're not stuck in vain
  • The place where you were born
  • Time is never time at all

Exercise 25

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

  • But you're sure you could be right
  • In the resolute urgency of now
  • You can never ever leave

Exercise 26

If you could ask The Smashing Pumpkins one question about "Tonight, Tonight", what would it be and why?

tonightbelieveneverwe'll

Exercise 27

Rewrite the chorus of "Tonight, Tonight" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

tonightbelieveneverwe'll

Exercise 28

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

tonightbelieveneverwe'll

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • you're→
  • we're→
  • there's→
  • we'll→

Exercise 30

Describe the mood of "Tonight, Tonight" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

tonightbelieveneverwe'll