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)
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Sunny it’s was dificult to me to understand all the changes that you have been made without any help to know what was your idea to learn English .I thought that if I know all the letter of a song ,zI could find the words and lyrics I would fine and sometimes I did many mistakes.But in my opinion, now I don’t fine the way to make the lyrics of a song and after loosing many .time finally it wasi imposible to continue with it.Sorry but It could be crazy to me to continue..I beg you perdón
Thanks
Hi Sunny thanks for this lesson. Take care
Sorry Sunny I wait to know what I must do to continued after the fitst frase after “the headline and who continue to put the second word found in the lyrics ,it was “kidness” but I can’t see to continue and were is the place to continue the song .I don’t be joocking I will be trayingnto continue bad i hope being not be crazy bu.t Could do you do to help me, how to will continue with that song?Sorry again, but now I am tired and out of order to continue
I tryed again but I don’t know how I could continue,before I put a bad expresion to stop continuing ,it was “out of orde”r to stop to continue,.I am not a robot,i am 68nyears old and I am traying to contian nue learning Englih in the next future, bad I had an ictus and after years i am better now ,thanks of mediciones and only had problems with movements to walk, bud my brain is in excelent lime as a young of 18 yesrs old.SorrySunny