Entertainment

Lyrics: Lost

Listening 4 min Lyrics Intermediate

Vocabulary - 22 contextual words

Grammar - Wish/if only

Pronunciation - Irish

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.

A beautiful song about love and dedication, Lost by the Irish singer, Dermot Kennedy is an excellent example of the way we use if only in English.

Exercise

Fill in the missing words. ⇩ -lost – don’t – My – moon – still – You’d – remember – birds – yourself – eyes – if – found – moments – loves – this – cry – hand – nights – heart – Are – guess -little

This activity is case sensitive so make sure to use capital letters when needed.

Grammar

Wish/if only

We use wish and if only to talk about non-real things we want to be real.

We use these structures to imagine the situations we desire:
I wish I had more free time.
If only I were younger!

We use wish/if only + past simple to talk about things we want to be different in the present:
Karen wishes she lived closer to her mother.
If only we were together right now!

We use wish/if only + past perfect to talk about things we want to be different in the past:
If only I had known your car had broken down!
Andrea wishes she had studied chemistry in university.
Caroline and Amber wish they had been born fifty years earlier.
If only you had been there to see the basketball game, you would have loved it!

We use wish/if only + would (n’t) to show annoyance or that something is bothering us:
I wish you wouldn’t talk so loud!
If only Amelia wouldn’t chew with her mouth open, I could enjoy this meal!
I wish Sam wouldn’t borrow my clothes without asking.

We can make questions with wish by placing do first, then the subject, then wish:
Do you wish you made more money?
Does Lynn wish I had visited her when she was in the hospital?
Don’t you wish Arthur would stop sending text messages at strange times?