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Zombie

The Cranberries · 1994

Zombie by The Cranberries (1994) — 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

  • In your head, in your head
  • Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
  • What's in your head? In your head?
  • Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie-ie, oh

Sing the opening verse

  • Another head hangs lowly
  • Child is slowly taken
  • And the violence caused such silence
  • Who are we mistaken?
headzombiebombs

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Another headlowly

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Child istaken

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Zombie,zombie-ie-ie-ie, oh

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

When the violencesilence

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

It's the same oldsince 1916

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Zombie, zombie,oh

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Who are we mistaken?

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Another head hangs lowly

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And the violence caused such silence

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie-ie, oh

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Another ? hangs lowly

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Child is ? taken

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Zombie, ? zombie-ie-ie-ie, oh

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

When the violence ? silence

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

In your head, in your head ? still fighting

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 "head" in the whole song?

"head"

Exercise 23

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

"zombie"

Exercise 24

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

  • Another head hangs lowly
  • It's the same old theme, since 1916
  • What's in your head? In your head?

Exercise 25

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

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Exercise 26

If you could ask The Cranberries one question about "Zombie", what would it be and why?

headzombiebombsit's

Exercise 27

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

headzombiebombsit's

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's→
  • what's→
  • they're→

Exercise 29

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

headzombiebombsit's

Exercise 30

"Zombie" was released in 1994. 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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