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 World Kindness Day, this week we are proposing songs that refer to this important human value. Today we have a song by American country boy band South 65. The group formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2001 with 5 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Charts.
A Random Act of Senseless Kindness talks about choosing love over hate, kindness over violence. Listen and take in these powerful lyrics. Enjoy!
Exercise
Fill in the missing words ⇩: connection – step – cure – hand – repay – school – headlines – violent – direction – friends – kindness
This activity is case sensitive so make sure to use capital letters when needed.
Grammar – Suffixes 
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Suffixes
- A SUFFIX is a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word that change its form and meaning. For example:
- – Drive – driver / Write – Writer (from verb to noun)
- – Happy – happiness / Kind – kindness (from adjective to noun)
- – Home – homeless / Cash – cashless (from noun to adjective)
- – Soft – soften / Short – shorten (from adjective to verb)
- – Beauty, plenty + -ful: beautiful, plentiful (-y to -i + -ful)
- – Crazy, lonely + -ness: craziness, loneliness (-y to -i + -ness)
- – Sensible, flexible + -ity: sensibility, flexibility (-le to il + -ity)
- – Remit, omit + -ion: remission, omission (-t to -ss + ion)
Some common suffixes and their meanings are:- – -able: capable of being (predictable, adaptable)
- – -en: become (soften, fasten)
- – -er: Someone who performs an action (teacher, dancer)
- – -ful: Full or remarkable at something (grateful, wonderful)
- – -ion: Action or process of something (celebration, decision)
- – -ity: State or condition of something (probability, equality)
- – -less: without (cashless, fearless)
- – -ly: in a certain way (bravely, honestly)
- – -ment: Action or result of something (improvement, movement)
- – -ness: State or quality (kindness, darkness)
- – -sion: State or being (confusion, tension)
Don’t miss our latest song lyric activities. By creating a habit step-by-step, you will be able to shape your learning path while doing activities you love.
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What a beautiful song! I like it very much!
beautiful song and the message is very sweet.
l loved the song and explication,thank you
The violence make me unhappy. Always be nice.