Improve your listening and writing skills by filling in the blanks of the song lyrics. This week we are celebrating Volunteer Day, with songs that inspire happy feelings even in hard times. Today we bring you a well known pop song, Peace Train by the British singer song-writer Cat Stevens, who changed his name later to Yusuf Islam. Goodwill in these times of crisis!
These activities are designed for Beginners and Intermediates so that they can learn new vocabulary related to a specific topic in a quick and fun way.
Exercise
Fill in the missing words. ⇩
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Grammar – Contractions & slang in music 
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Contractions & slang in songs
Often lyrics use an informal type of vocabulary. This is why we find things like contractions and slang words. Here are some examples of contractions and slang often used in lyrics:
– don’tcha = don’t you
– ain’t = am not, is not, are not, has not or have not
– ’cause / ‘coz = because
– -in’ ending like in thinkin’ or losin’ (it looses the g in -ing to sound more informal)
– dunno = don’t know
– lemme = let me
– gimme = give me
– gonna = going to
– gotta = got to
– wanna = want to
– kinda = kind of
I love this idea to exercise listening. I think Somewhere over the rainbow will be a nice song for practice!
I have fun doing this exercice, maybe for the futur Bobby McGee with Janis Japlin, thank you very much
Thanks for the recommendation!
That is beautiful song and the good way to develop
Thanks, Esther!
I had fun doing this exercise, the song is very beautiful and improving my English becomes easier
We’re glad you’re improving, Giorgio!
Hi… I didn’t get the whole exercise right because is hard for me listen in English. But I like the exercise with music. Thank you Team Aba English… your guys are the best! 👌👏🤩
Keep trying!