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Valerie

Amy Winehouse · 2007

Valerie by Amy Winehouse (2007) — 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

  • Why don't you come on over, Valerie?
  • Valerie
  • Did you have to go to jail?
  • Put your house out up for sale?

Echo the hook

  • Well, sometimes I go out by myself
  • And I look across the water
  • And I think of all the things of what you're doing
  • In my head I paint a picture
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Well,I go out by myself

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

In my head Ia picture

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

And I miss yourhair

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Put yourout up for sale?

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Hope you find theman

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Change theof your hair

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Well, sometimes I go out by myself

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

In my head I paint a picture

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I miss your ginger hair

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Oh, won't you come on over?

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Did you have to go to jail?

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Well, ? I go out by myself

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Well, my ? been a mess

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Why ? you come on over, Valerie?

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

I ? you didn't catch a tan,

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

That you were ? all the time?

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 "valerie" in the whole song?

"valerie"

Exercise 23

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

"well"

Exercise 24

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

  • I hope you didn't catch a tan,
  • Oh, won't you come on over?
  • Well, sometimes I go out by myself

Exercise 25

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

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Exercise 26

Who in your life would you dedicate "Valerie" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 27

Compare "Valerie" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • you're→
  • i've→
  • won't→
  • don't→
  • didn't→

Exercise 29

Imagine you are making a short film with "Valerie" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?

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Exercise 30

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

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