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
Kind of difficult to follow because Joe probably modified some words from the original lyrics you posted. Still a good exercise to improve listening!
Thanks for your comment, Deborah. 🙂
Great Joe Cocker
🙂
I couldn’t follow it very well, maybe the liryc is not the same version with the song.
Thanks for the comment and feedback 🙂
Are you sure that the lyrics are correct ? I think that you made a certain amount of mistakes : i have the feeling that you forgot a line of the chorus, and a lot of lines seem incorrect in the different verses
Could you please check it ? Thank you
Thank you for your comment Delphine. We can check it out to see.
Wow. It was very difficult to me, really I couldn’t understand some words, even checking the answers. It doesn’t sound in the same way.
It’s great to push yourself!