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What a Girl Wants

Christina Aguilera · 1999

What a Girl Wants by Christina Aguilera (1999) — 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

  • Whatever makes me happy, sets you free
  • And I'm thankin' you for knowin' exactly
  • What a girl wants, what a girl needs
  • Whatever keeps me in your arms

Sing it again — final chorus

  • Whatever makes me happy, sets you free
  • Oh, it's what I need
  • Oh, it's what I want
  • What I need, what I want (you, yeah, yeah)
girlwantsneeds

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

What a girlwhat a girl needs

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

I only looked, but Itouched

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Whateverme happy, sets you free

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And I'm thankin' you forit to me

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

And I'm thankin' you forexactly

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

What a girl(you're so right)

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Like a rock, you waited so patiently

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

While I figured it out yeah, yeah

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And it's lucky for me, you understand

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I'm thankin' you for knowin' exactly

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And whatcha got, is what I want

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

What a ? wants, what a girl needs

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Holdin' ? makin' plans

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

What I ? is whatcha got

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

And I'm thankin' you for ? exactly

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Oh, I'm thankin' you for ? there for me

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 "girl" in the whole song?

"girl"

Exercise 23

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

"wants"

Exercise 24

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

  • And whatcha got, is what I want
  • What a girl needs (you're so right)
  • What a girl wants, what a girl needs

Exercise 25

If you could change the ending of the story told in "What a Girl Wants", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

Who in your life would you dedicate "What a Girl Wants" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • wanna→
  • it's→
  • i'm→
  • that's→
  • you're→

Exercise 29

"What a Girl Wants" was released in 1999. 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 30

If you could ask Christina Aguilera one question about "What a Girl Wants", what would it be and why?

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