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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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
It is difficult to follow the lyric. It s look like incompleted
The voice and the lyrics are not the same. Joe’s said “I’m sure”, but the original lyrics say “I’m certain”. Anyway, I like it very much. I always like Joe Cocker ❤
I’m glad you like it 🙂
Once again I couldn’t follow this song
It is a nice Song,but very hard to hear correctly.
It´s very hard to hear correctly.