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You Make My Dreams

Hall & Oates · 1980

You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oates (1980) — 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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • You make my dreams come true
  • (You-ooh, you-you-ohh-ohh, you-ooh)
  • Well, well, well, you (ohh-ohh, ohh-ohh-ohh)
  • Oh yeah

Echo the hook

  • (You-ooh, you-you-ohh-ohh) Oh yeah (you-ooh)
  • Well, well, well, you (ohh-ohh, ohh-ohh-ohh)
  • You make my dreams come true
  • (You-ooh, you-you-ohh-ohh) oh yeah (you-ooh)
wellwaitingdreams

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

What I want,got

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Thefeeds the flame, yeah, yeah

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

You make mycome true

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

I canit in the face

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

'Cause I ain't the way youme

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Wellto this, oh

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

What I want, you've got

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Then you pull them all together

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Well, well you ohh-ohh, ohh-ohh-ohh

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You-ooh, you-you-ohh-ohh, you-ooh

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You-ooh, you-you-ohh-ohh well, yeah you-ooh

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

What I ? you've got

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

What I've ? full stock

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

You make my ? come true

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

I can ? it in the face

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Well, ? you (ohh-ohh, ohh-ohh-ohh)

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 "well" in the whole song?

"well"

Exercise 23

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

"waiting"

Exercise 24

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

  • (You-ooh, you-you-ohh-ohh) well, yeah (you-ooh)
  • Well listen to this, oh
  • What I want, you've got

Exercise 25

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

  • (You-ooh, you-you-ohh-ohh) oh yeah (you-ooh)
  • And it might be hard to handle
  • Well, 'cause you (ohh-ohh, ohh-ohh-ohh)

Exercise 26

Compare "You Make My Dreams" 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 "You Make My Dreams", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 28

Describe the mood of "You Make My Dreams" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • you've→
  • i've→
  • can't→
  • they're→
  • i'll→
  • i'm→

Exercise 30

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

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