Level: High Beginning and Up
Pair with the Song: “Because You Loved Me” (Celine Dion, 1996)
Recommended Video: the live 2011 live performance video

If you’re looking for a song with lots of verbs in the simple past, it doesn’t get much better than this one. It has 19 past-tense verbs, 5 regular and 14 irregular. (The irregular verbs are: was, were, brought, could, found, gave, had, held, let, lost, made, said, saw, and stood.) Below is a chart of the verb forms and a lyrics gap-fill exercise targeting the verbs. The verbs are repeated throughout the song, so students will write the past-tense forms a total of 66 times. Lyrics intended for nonprofit educational use only.

because-you-loved-me-gap-fill.docx          because-you-loved-me-gap-fill.pdf

because-you-loved-me-gap-fill (webpage)