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 finish this week’s series with Fall-related songs, today we bring you Rain On Me, a song performed as a duet by two mega-stars, American singers Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande. The song was released in May 2020 and speaks about rain, obviously. But the lyrics are a metaphor, since Lady Gaga described it as a “celebration of tears, it is about being able to keep going despite the hardships of life.” It is by no means a sad song, its disco beat and funk guitars make it a song you cannot stop dancing to!
Exercise
Fill in the missing words ⇩: alive – away – coming – dry – galaxy – lose – rain – rather – show – sky – thunder
Grammar – Phrasal Verbs 
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Phrasal Verbs
- We make a PHRASAL VERB with VERB+PREPOSITION, VERB+ADVERB, or VERB+ADVERB+PREPOSITION.
- This gives the original VERB a completely new meaning.
- PHRASAL VERBS can be SEPARABLE or NON-SEPARABLE.
- The parts of SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS can be divided by other words; we cannot divide the parts of NON-SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS.
- NON-SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS:
- – get on – “She gets on the bus at nine-thirty in the morning.” (to enter or mount)
- – look after – “Can you look after my daughter while I go to the store?” (to mind/care for)
- – look into – “I will look into your problem and try to solve it.” (to check)
- – break into – “Someone broke into my car last night.” (to rob or trespass)
- We can see that these examples use VERB+PREPOSITION. This type of PHRASAL VERB, and PHRASAL VERBS without an OBJECT, are NON-SEPARABLE.
- SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS:
- – call off – “We have called the concert off because of rain.” (to cancel)
- “We have called off the concert because of rain.”
- “Do you want to know about the concert? “We called it off because of rain.
- (PRONOUN must seperate the PHRASAL VERB) As we can see in this example, We can place a NOUN (“concert”) in the middle of the PHRASAL VERB, or after it.
- However, we always place PRONOUNS in the middle of SEPARABLE PHRASAL VERBS:
- – “I will pick up Chris at five o’clock.” (to bring someone/something from one place to another) OBJECT after PHRASAL VERB)
- – “I will pick Chris up at five o’clock.” (separated) “Oh, Chris? I’ll pick him up at five o’clock.” (has PRONOUN, must separate)
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Which song would you like to practise with next?
Nice but too fast.
Too fast
I understood all very well.