SONG: “Washed”
– C1-C2 (advanced) –
Practice Your Listening Comprehension
Practice Your Reading Comprehension
A very popular genre of music among Christians is called worship music. This genre is all about how having a relationship with God changes a person’s life. It focuses on personal reflection, struggle, triumph, gratitude, and joy. Such music is often performed and sung along to during church services, conferences, concerts, and more. Songs from this genre can be slow and sentimental or upbeat and dance-worthy. The latter reflects the style of this particular song by well-known worship group ELEVATION RHYTHM.
WHAT TO LEARN
While listening to “Washed” by ELEVATION RHYTHM, there are a variety of things that English language learners can practice and improve, including:
listening comprehension
reading comprehension
American English
first-person singular (e.g., I, me, my, mine)
present perfect (e.g., I have been)
present simple (e.g., I am)
passive voice (e.g., I’ve been washed)
metaphors
contractions (e.g., I’ve)
connected speech
unvoiced plosives
g-dropping (e.g., runnin’ vs. running)
vocabulary related to:
Easter
salvation
praise
joy
and more…!
