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You Get What You Give

New Radicals · 1998

You Get What You Give by New Radicals (1998) — 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

  • You've got the music in you
  • Don't let go
  • You've got the music in you
  • One dance left

Sing it again — final chorus

  • You've got the music in you
  • One dance left
  • This world is gonna pull through
  • Don't give up

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

One, two, one, two,ow

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Everythey smash a Mercedes-Benz

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

You've got ato live

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

You cannot find a(friend)

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Just don't beto live

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Cloningthey're multiplying

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Wake up, kids, we got the dreamers' disease

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Frenemies, who, when you're down, ain't your friend

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You cannot find the light light

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You've got the music in you

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We only get what we give

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

One, two, one, two, ? ow

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

You ? your dreams are dying

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

You cannot ? a friend (friend)

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

This world is gonna ? through

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Cloning ? they're multiplying

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 "don't" in the whole song?

"don't"

Exercise 23

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

"give"

Exercise 24

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

  • But when the night is falling
  • What, what, what, what
  • You've got a reason to live

Exercise 25

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

  • One, two, one, two, three, ow
  • This whole damn world can fall apart
  • What's real can't die

Exercise 26

If you could change the ending of the story told in "You Get What You Give", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 27

Describe the mood of "You Get What You Give" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 28

Who in your life would you dedicate "You Get What You Give" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • we're
  • you're
  • you've
  • don't
  • gonna
  • can't

Exercise 30

"You Get What You Give" was released in 1998. 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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