Improve your listening and writing skills by filling in the blanks of the song lyrics. To celebrate World Environment Day we propose today the song Where Do The Children Play by Cat Stevens. In this 2015 concert in Chile, Cat Steven performs the song: a protest against overdevelopment, skyscrapers, gas extraction and other human activities that destroy our world.
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 – Informal Contractions 
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- Examples of contractions and slang we can find in lyrics:
- – -in’ ending: thinkin’ or losin’ (drops the g in -ing, sounds more informal)
- – ’bout = about
- – don’tcha = don’t you
- – ain’t = am not, is not, are not, has not or have not
- – ’cause / ‘coz = because
- – dunno = don’t know
- – lemme = let me
- – gimme = give me
- – gonna = going to
- – gotta = got to
- – wanna = want to
- – kinda = kind of
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It is not been so simple. His speaking is not so clear and, in my view, also his pronunciation is not easy to catch (for instance rOOms seemed pronunciated as rOms and not rUms).
But it is been however many interesting because it is the kind of pronunciation that I hear from my American colleagues every times.
Regards.
Thank you very much for the feedback.
It was hard!! Not all him pronunciation was clear 😢
Great!
This song just make me cry !