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Practice Your Listening Comprehenion

Practice Your Reading Comprehension

With Grammy nominations already rumoured for this ever-so-catchy song, it is with no wonder that Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is expected to dominate the Billboard Hot 100 this summer season. But beyond jamming out (see blog post, “to jam out”) to this tune, you can also use it to practice your English skills. Maybe while you drink your own morning espresso?

WHAT TO LEARN

Reading the lyrics while listening to this song can help an English language learner in a variety of ways. Despite “Espresso” being short, it is packed with educational content that can help you enhance the following language skills:

• understanding American English

• the present simple

• the past simple

• the imperative

• informal language

• word play

• idioms

• phrasal verbs

• two uses of the word, “that,” in context

• three uses of the word, “get,” in context

• rhyming for the purposes of pronunciation practice

• neologisms

• g-dropping

• unvoiced plosives

• and more…!

Before listening to this song, did you know who Sabrina Carpenter was? What do you think of her music? Let me know in the comments below.

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