Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves: Letra, Vocabulario y Adjetivos de Personalidad en Inglés

Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves: aprende inglés con esta canción

Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves es un tema icónico de Eurythmics, con Annie Lennox y Aretha Franklin, que celebra la liberación y la independencia de la mujer. Además de su mensaje, la letra es una excelente herramienta para practicar vocabulario, adjetivos de personalidad y phrasal verbs.

Letra de la canción

Verso 1

Now there was a time when they used to say that behind every great man there had to be a great woman.
Don't you know that a man still loves a woman
But in these times of change you know that it's no longer true
When a woman still loves a woman.

Now we ain't making stories and we ain't laying plans
So we're comin' out of the kitchen
'Cause there's something we forgot to say to you.

Estribillo

Chorus: We say sisters are doin' it for themselves.
Standin' on their own two feet and ringin' on their own bells.
Sisters are doin' it for themselves.

Verso 2

This is a song to celebrate the conscious liberation of the female state.
Mothers, daughters and their daughters too.
Woman to woman, we're singing with you.
The inferior sex has got a new exterior.
We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too.

Verso 3

Everybody take a look around.
Can you see? Can you see?
Can you see there's a woman right next to you?

Vocabulario: adjetivos de personalidad (Unit 5)

Estos son los adjetivos de personalidad que aparecen en el texto original, agrupados según su significado:

• Positivos: adventurous (aventurero), ambitious (ambicioso), practical (práctico), logical (lógico), independent (independiente), sociable (sociable), self-confident (seguro de sí mismo), creative (creativo), efficient (eficiente), sensitive (sensible), patient (paciente), hard-working (trabajador), honest (honesto), optimistic (optimista), rational (racional), sincere (sincero), cheerful (alegre), interesting (interesante), good-looking (guapo), reliable (confiable), open-minded (de mente abierta), mature (maduro), outgoing (extrovertido).
• Negativos o neutros: superstitious (supersticioso), talkative (hablador).

Phrasal verbs

• to get on with: llevarse bien con, seguir adelante con.
• gossip about: chismear sobre.
• talk to: hablar con.
• back you up: animar, apoyar.
• let you down: defraudar.
• lie to: mentir a.

Prefijos negativos

Muchos adjetivos se forman con prefijos que expresan negación. Observa los siguientes ejemplos:

• irrational, illegal
• uninteresting, unreliable, unfriendly
• insincere
• immature
• irresponsable

Recuerda que el prefijo cambia según la letra inicial de la palabra base: im- antes de m o p, il- antes de l, ir- antes de r, e in- en los demás casos (salvo excepciones como unfriendly o unreliable, que usan un-).