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B1.2·rock·3:26

Wuthering Heights

Kate Bush · 1978

Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush (1978) — 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

  • Wuthering heights
  • Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
  • I'm so cold, let me in your window

Sing the opening verse

  • Out on the wily, windy moors
  • We'd roll and fall in green
  • You had a temper, like my jealousy
  • Too hot, too greedy

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Out on the wily,moors

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

How could youme

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Iyou, I loved you too

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Leavemy wuthering, wuthering

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

On, theside from you

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I'mback love, cruel Heathcliff

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We'd roll and fall in green

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

How could you leave me

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I hated you, I loved you too

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'm so cold, let me in your window

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I pine a lot, I find the lot

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Out on the ? windy moors

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

When I ? to possess you?

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm ? I've come home

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

I ? a lot, I find the lot

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Too ? I roam in the night

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 "heathcliff" in the whole song?

"heathcliff"

Exercise 23

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

"it's"

Exercise 24

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

  • Coming home to wuthering, wuthering
  • I'm so cold, let me in your window
  • Out on the wily, windy moors

Exercise 25

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Wuthering Heights" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

heathcliffit'scathyhome

Exercise 26

If you could ask Kate Bush one question about "Wuthering Heights", what would it be and why?

heathcliffit'scathyhome

Exercise 27

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

heathcliffit'scathyhome

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's
  • i'm
  • i've

Exercise 29

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Wuthering Heights", what would happen instead?

heathcliffit'scathyhome

Exercise 30

"Wuthering Heights" was released in 1978. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

heathcliffit'scathyhome