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.
To keep celebrating pride month today we bring a song by British singer Calum Scott called No Matter What. This is one of Calum’s most personal songs where he tells us his story of coming out to his parents. This touching song about unconditional love is worth a listen. Enjoy it!
Exercise
Fill in the missing words: loves – away – who – wiser – matter – special – young – love – courage – choose – be – crazy – happy – mother – She – friends. ⇩
Grammar
Past simple regular verbs (affirmative)
We use the past simple to talk about actions that have already finished. There are two types of past simple verbs: regular and irregular.
Today, we are going to focus on the regular verbs.
We consider past simple regular verbs those that add -ed to the base form of the verb. For example:
dance = danced
kiss = kissed
visit = visited
There are a few exceptions to this rule:
When the verb finishes with an -e, we just add -d. For example:
like = liked
close = closed
When the verb finishes in consonant + y, we lose the y and add -ied. For example:
study = studied
marry = married
When the verb finishes with a stressed vowel + consonant, we double the consonant and add -ed:
stop = stopped
ban = banned
Related Course Units
Unit 65 – Past simple (regular verbs) 
Beautiful song…inspire piece.
This was a big surprise for me because I just wanted to do a Microlesson and when I started reading the beautiful song, I started to cry. I remember my mother and She was exactly kind like the mother describe in the song. I`m very grateful with this lesson brougth the best memories in my life. I know that was personal experience and maybe you dont have been a good experience with your parents. My point is that song is about LOVE. So, certanly you have been this gift or was have been this gift for someone.
This is beautiful sing
Thanks Caroline for this song. Take care
This song is for my son Sébastien who died in January 24 of 2011, He was 30 years old. I always said to. him “ I love you no matter What, I want you tone happy “
I still love him so much and I miss him every day