Level: High Beginning and Up
Pair with the Song: “This Town” (Niall Horan, 2016)
Recommended Video: the official lyric video

This song has 6 verbs in the simple past tense–1 regular and 5 irregular. (Irregular past-tense verbs are: were, got, met, saw, and thought.) Below is a chart of the verb forms followed by a lyrics cloze exercise targeting the verbs. Lyrics intended for nonprofit educational use only. This song can also be used as a springboard to practice the construction “to get to do something.” (It repeats the phrase the words I never got to say twice.) An interactive worksheet is on the webpage “Get to Do Something.”

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