Improve your listening and writing skills by filling in the blanks of the song lyrics. This week we are celebrating World Health Day, with songs based on helping each other in hard times. Today we’re bringing you another classic, With a Little Help From My Friends in Joe Cocker’s great rock version, performed in this video in a concert with Queen. Amazing!
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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See Grammar explanation 
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
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Sunny I like very much Joe Coker singing these song with some slang words but finally I understood all that he say with his strong voice and with the extraordinary group of rock
We’re glad you like it, Josep!
Incredible! Nobody ever will sing this song as Joe Cocker.
But I believe that live version aren’t the same of original lyric. He sings some verses that isn’t in the lyrics you posted.
Thanks for the information.
The lyrics is the same? I couldn’t keep up
They sure are.
La partie grammaire ( contraction s) a juste répondu à une question que je me posais depuis longtemps . Merci 😊 !!…
You are welcome! Glad to have helped!