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You Can't Hurry Love

The Supremes · 1966

You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes (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

  • No, you just have to wait"
  • She said, "Love don't come easy
  • It's a game of give and take"
  • You can't hurry love

Echo the hook

  • She said, "Trust, give it time
  • No matter how long it takes"
  • (Just wait)
  • No, love, love, don't come easy
waitcan'teasy

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

"You can'tlove

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

You've got togive it time

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Thatme hangin' on

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Imama said

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Beforewill cause my heart

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

For somearms

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I need love, love

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

"You can't hurry love

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

She said, "Love don't come easy

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Must I stand

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

When I feel my strength, yeah

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I ? love, love

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

She said, "Love ? come easy

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

To let me ? again?

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

How ? must I wait?

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Anticipating for that ? voice

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 "wait" in the whole song?

"wait"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "can't" in the whole song?

"can't"

Exercise 24

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

  • I need love, love
  • She said, "Trust, give it time
  • That keeps me hangin' on

Exercise 25

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

  • But, I keep on waiting
  • How much more can I take?
  • To ease my mind

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "You Can't Hurry Love" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

waitcan'teasygive

Exercise 27

If you could ask The Supremes one question about "You Can't Hurry Love", what would it be and why?

waitcan'teasygive

Exercise 28

Rewrite the chorus of "You Can't Hurry Love" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

waitcan'teasygive

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • can't→
  • don't→
  • it's→
  • you've→

Exercise 30

If you could change the ending of the story told in "You Can't Hurry Love", what would happen instead?

waitcan'teasygive