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Yellow Submarine

The Beatles · 1966

Yellow Submarine by The Beatles (1966) — 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

  • We all live in a yellow submarine
  • Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
  • We all live in a yellow submarine
  • Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

Echo the hook

  • A yellow submarine, yellow submarine
  • We all live in a yellow submarine
  • A yellow submarine, yellow submarine
  • We all live in a yellow submarine

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Lived a man whoto sea

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

And webeneath the waves

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Yellowyellow submarine

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And the bandto play

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Full steamit is, Sergeant)

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Every one of usone of us)

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

In the town where I was born

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

So we sailed on to the sun

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And we lived beneath the waves

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Has all we need has all we need

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

In the land of submarines

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

In the ? where I was born

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

In the ? of submarines

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

We all ? in a yellow submarine

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

And the ? begins to play

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Every one of us ? one of us)

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 "yellow" in the whole song?

"yellow"

Exercise 23

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

"submarine"

Exercise 24

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

  • And our friends are all aboard
  • Has all we need (has all we need)
  • In the town where I was born

Exercise 25

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

  • In our yellow (in our yellow)
  • Lived a man who sailed to sea
  • Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

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

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Exercise 29

Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?

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Exercise 30

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

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