SONG: “Babydoll”
– B2-C1 (intermediate to advanced) –
Practice Your Listening Comprehension
Practice Your Reading Comprehension
“Babydoll” by Welsh musician Jamie Miller is one of the most recent songs to top the charts in the United States. With its joyful and nostalgic vibes mixed with lyrics about love it has become an earworm in the most positive way. Not to mention that it has also been exciting to see what celebrities have been popping up in his viral social media posts singing along or dancing to the song (Broadway Performer/Singer/Actor Antonio Cipriano, Professional Ballroom and Latin Dancer/Judge Julianne Hough, Pop Star Meghan Trainor, etc.).
WHAT TO LEARN
While listening to this smash hit, English learners can practice and improve a variety of language skills, including:
listening comprehension
reading comprehension (US English lyrics)
present simple
conditional
imperative
reductions
gonna
gotta
contractions
there’s
you’re
someone’s
and more…
two uses of the word, “that”
phrasal verbs
to have got
to have got to
to stare down
and more…
idioms
to bring it on
to bring someone to their knees
to tear someone’s world in two
and more…
unvoiced plosives
vocabulary related to:
general language (something, someone)
love
affection
suffering
and much, much more…!
