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?
thanks
Good song, not really my cup of tea, but there is something for all tastes
Maybe you can find songs that are more suitable for you in our course Mimi! Keep the good practice!
Perfect! Thank you. It is very good practice for understanding the meaning of the words when we hear from the singers.
I don’t like this two.
Me gusta la forma de aprender vocabulario y sobre todo escuchar