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Under Pressure

David Bowie · 1981

Under Pressure by David Bowie (1981) — 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

  • Pressure on people, people on streets
  • Chippin' around, kick my brains around the floor
  • These are the days, it never rains but it pours
  • People on streets

Echo the hook

  • Under pressure
  • Under pressure
  • Pressure
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Pressure,down on me

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Splits ain two, puts people on streets

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Chippin' around, kick myaround the floor

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Tomorrow gets mehigher, high!

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Insanityunder pressure we're cracking

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

'Causesuch an old fashioned word

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Pressing down on you, no man ask for

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Can't we give ourselves one more chance?

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Under pressure that burns a building down

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Tomorrow gets me higher

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Chippin' around, kick my brains around the floor

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Pressure, ? down on me

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Watching some ? friends screaming, "Let me out!"

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Watching some good ? screaming, "Let me out!"

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Sat on a ? but it don't work

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

'Cause ? such an old fashioned word

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 "give" in the whole song?

"give"

Exercise 23

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

"pressure"

Exercise 24

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

  • Love, love, love, love, love
  • People on streets
  • Pressure, pushing down on me

Exercise 25

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

  • Insanity laughs, under pressure we're cracking
  • Pressing down on you, no man ask for
  • Tomorrow gets me higher, higher, high!

Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

"Under Pressure" was released in 1981. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's→
  • don't→
  • we're→
  • can't→

Exercise 30

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

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