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.
Which song would you like to practise with next?
Me too can’t do exercises from yesterday…
Nice song, full of sens!
Sunny , it’s an easy and positive song for me, thanks.
No funciona
Doesn’t work, I only can fill the first word
Hello Luis, thanks for your message and sorry for the inconvenience. Indeed there’s a naughty bug affecting some exercises in Android devices. We are working to fix it as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience! Please stay tuned.