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.
For today’s song we bring you a ballad by American singer Alicia Keys called: No one. This single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks and it became the most listened-to song on US radio of 2008. Enjoy!
Exercise
Fill in the missing words: try – forever – days – what – no – talking – gonna – get – you – always – feeling – don’t – search – together – Everything’s. ⇩
This activity is case sensitive so make sure to use capital letters when needed.
Grammar
Simple present (affirmative)
We use the present simple for:
Habits and routines.
Repeated actions.
General facts.
Instructions.
Programmed events.
All forms of the present simple affirmative are the same but the 3rd person singular, where we have to include a final -s:
I play football.
We play tennis.
She plays soccer.
Matthew plays basketball.
They play rugby.
Sharon and Alistair play chess on Tuesday.
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This exercise is very funny for learning English, thanks for that Sweet Caroline 👍
Hi Caroline, thank you for sharing the songs and the other useful information! I wanted to share my feelings here. Since I grew up in India listening to Hindi music and songs and humming it, I don’t have much interest of listening to the English music. First of all, I find myself hard time to understand the lyrics. Secondly, If I get the song, I don’t feel it in the same way I feel for the Hindi songs. So, Please provide any suggestions or tips on how I can build my interest or feelings about listening to the English music… Read more »
This exercise is great and a good way to find out I can’t sing Lol 🙂
I loved this song!!! Thanks for sharing with us.
One love. U-2.