Song: “Grateful”

– C1 (advanced) –

Practice Your Listening Comprehension

Practice Your Reading Comprehension

WHAT TO LEARN

Kosovo-born artist, Rita Ora, sings a song of great beauty with her movie-soundtrack single, “Grateful.” While listening to this tune there are a variety of English language elements for you to practice and learn, including:

• American pronunciation

• past simple

• idioms

• phrasal verbs

• two different ways to use the verb “to get”

• one way to use the word “time”

• metaphors

• connected speech

• unvoiced plosives

• ellipsis

• vocabulary related to:

  • sadness

  • grief

  • suffering

  • gratitude

• and much more…!

What is something that you are grateful for? Practice your English by letting me know in the comments below.

---

RELATED ARTICLES

• Thanksgiving In Canada

• SONG: “Mom”

• SONG: “Echo”

• SONG: “Angel”

• BOOK: “Eyes That Kiss In the Corners”

ATTRIBUTION

• Thumbnail image courtesy of © Oliver Mark, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons