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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Beatles · 1968

While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles (1968) — 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

  • While my guitar gently weeps
  • I look at the floor
  • And I see it needs sweeping
  • Still my guitar gently weeps

Sing it again — final chorus

  • While my guitar gently weeps
  • With every mistake
  • We must surely be learning
  • Still my guitar gently weeps

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

See the lovethat's sleeping

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

And I see itsweeping

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

How toyour love

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And Iit's turning

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

You weretoo

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Doingbut aging

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I look at you all

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I see it needs sweeping

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I don't know how someone controlled you

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I look at the world

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We must surely be learning

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

See the love ? that's sleeping

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Still my guitar ? weeps

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I don't ? how someone controlled you

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

You were ? too

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

'Cause I'm ? here

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 "guitar" in the whole song?

"guitar"

Exercise 23

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

"gently"

Exercise 24

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

  • I don't know how you were inverted
  • I look at you all
  • They bought and sold you

Exercise 25

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

  • At the play you are staging
  • See the love there that's sleeping
  • We must surely be learning

Exercise 26

If you had to summarize "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

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Exercise 27

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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Exercise 28

If you could ask The Beatles one question about "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • that's
  • don't
  • it's
  • i'm
  • we're

Exercise 30

Compare "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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