—| B2-C1 (upper-intermediate to advanced) |—

WHAT TO LEARN

“Small Talk” by the Canadian indie/folk band Wild Rivers is a song that oozes relatability, as it covers vocabulary related to things that we all experience in life: relationships, change, conversation, memories, intimacy, and longing. The song also offers a variety of other English-language features that you can practice and learn about by listening and reading along to the lyrics: the cultural concept of small talk in the Anglosphere, the present simple, the present continuous, the present perfect, the past simple, informal language, idioms (LOTS!), punctuation, contractions, g-dropping, adverbs, time, the causative, the use of “there is”, and much more…!

LIVE PERFORMANCE:

Do you ever struggle with small talk in English? Do you like small talk? Why or why not? Let me know in the comments below.