Entertainment

Lyrics: Raise Your Glass

Listening 5 min Lyrics Intermediate

Vocabulary - 21 contextual words

Grammar - Phrasal Verbs

Pronunciation - American

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 this week’s lyrics we bring you an iconic song called Raise You Glass by American singer, P¡INK. The song celebrates the first decade since Pink’s debut in 2000, and is dedicated to her fans who have been supporting her over the years.

Exercise

Fill in the missing words ⇩: choose – glass – crasher – loud – fancy – lose – wrong – We – part – come – radio – cool – anything – Won’t – serious – Party – dirty – stop – raise – Just – if

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

Grammar

Phrasal verbs introduction

We make a phrasal verb with verb + preposition, verb + adverb, or verb + adverb + preposition. This gives the original verb a completely new meaning.

Phrasal verbs can be separable or non-separable.
The parts of separable phrasal verbs can be divided by other words; we cannot divide the parts of non-separable phrasal verbs.

Non-separable phrasal verbs
get on = She gets on the bus at nine-thirty in the morning. (to enter or mount)
look after = Can you look after my daughter while I go to the store? (to mind/care for)
look into = I will look into your problem and try to solve it. (to check)
break into = Someone broke into my car last night. (to rob or trespass)

We can see that these examples use verb + preposition. This type of phrasal verb, and phrasal verbs without an object, are non-separable.

Separable phrasal verbs
call off:
We have called the concert off because of rain. (to cancel)
We have called off the concert because of rain.
Do you want to know about the concert? We called it off because of rain. (pronoun must separate the phrasal verb)

As we can see in this example, We can place a noun (concert) in the middle of the phrasal verb, or after it.

However, we always place pronouns in the middle of separable phrasal verbs:
I will pick up Chris at five o’clock. (to bring someone/something from one place to another; object after phrasal verb)
I will pick Chris up at five o’clock. (separated)
Oh, Chris? I’ll pick him up at five o’clock. (has pronoun, must separate)