Improve your listening and writing skills by filling in the blanks in the song lyrics. These activities are designed for Beginners and Intermediates to learn new vocabulary related to a specific topic in a quick and fun way.
To celebrate back to school and the beginning of Fall, we have the song We Are Going to be Friends by the Grammy award-winning alternative rock duo, The White Stripes. The song was written to reflect the nostalgia of childhood and making new friends at school. It has been used on several movie and TV show soundtracks. Enjoy!
Exercise
Fill in the missing words ⇩: anything – bed – bugs – clean – hall – funny – park – pens – school – spell – Teacher – throw – walk – walked – yell
Grammar – Be going to / Gonna 
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Be going to / Gonna
- We use BE GOING TO to express future plans or predictions. For example:
- – I’m going to be in London for two weeks (future plans).
- – It’s going to rain this afternoon (prediction).
- Subject + To Be + going to + verb + object.
- To form the negative, we have to use NOT after to be (or its contracted form). For example:
- – I’m not going to go to his birthday party.
- – He is not going to have dinner with us tomorrow.
- Subject + To Be + NOT + going to + verb + object.
- To ask questions, we simple move the verb to be before the subject. For example:
- – Are you going to visit the British Museum when you go to London?
- – Is she going to have time to finish everything she has planned?
- To be + subject + going to + verb + object.
In informal slang, “going to” can be shortened to “gonna”.
Related Course Units
Unit 47 – Future with Going to 
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Thanks for enjoying it Édna!
Nice song Robin! I didn’t know these guys…They sound very well…Thks!
A very nice song
Cute song.Very difficult to translate in Italian
thanks for the practice , good exercise