A2.2·pop·5:13

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

Michael Jackson · 1982

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' by Michael Jackson (1982) — 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

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'

Echo the hook

You're a vegetable (you're a vegetable)
You're a vegetable (you're a vegetable)
Still they hate you (still they hate you)
You're a vegetable (you're a vegetable)

you'restartin'somethin'

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

I said yoube startin' somethin'

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

You'rein the middle (yeah, yeah)

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Someone'stryin' to start my baby cryin'

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Youcan't make him hate her

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

You're a(you're a vegetable)

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

So theyher mouth a motor

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You're too low to get under yeah, yeah

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

They said she had a breakdown

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You love to pretend that you're good

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You really can't make him hate her

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I said you ? be startin' somethin'

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

And the ? is thunder (yeah, yeah)

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

You love to ? that you're good

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

You're a ? (you're a vegetable)

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

If you ? feed your baby (yeah, yeah)

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 "you're" in the whole song?

"you're"

Exercise 23

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

"startin'"

Exercise 24

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

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
So your tongue became a razor

Exercise 25

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", what would happen instead?