SONG: “This Is What A New Year Feels Like”
– B2 (intermediate) –
Practice Your Listening Comprehension
Practice Your Reading Comprehension
With a combined total of 61.5 million followers across social media and 12.3 billion streams on Spotify and YouTube alone, musical artists JVKE and Forrest Frank have come together to collaborate on a surprise album: “This Is What Christmas Feels Like.”
While Christmas has already come and gone, this album features a beautiful song about the new year, which when listened to and read can serve as an educational tool for English language learners.
WHAT TO LEARN
While indulging in the song, “This Is What A New Year Feels Like”, you can practice and learn many different elements of the English language, including:
American English
listening comprehension
reading comprehension
present simple
imperative
natural combinations of different verb tenses and moods
from present simple to past simple to conditional
from present perfect to present simple, back to present perfect, then to imperative and to future
phrasal verbs
contractions
comparison
common expressions
interjections
subtle connected speech
pronunciation of the letter S
pronunciation of the letters M and N
vocabulary related to:
New Year’s
love
affection
expectation
and more…!
Do you have a favourite New Year’s song? Does your culture make music about the New Year? Practice your English by telling me about it in the comments below.
