B1 · Intermediate

Easy On Me — Adele

Practice Imperatives, forgiveness vocabulary and self-acceptance.

🅵 Grammar focus: Imperatives for requests · Present Perfect for life stages · Vocabulary: forgiveness

💡 How to use: Watch the video, read the lyrics below, check the grammar notes. Double-click any word to look it up and save to your dictionary.

🎤 Lyrics with Grammar Notes

📚 Key Vocabulary

mercycompassion/forgiveness
childhoodearly stage of life
forgivestop feeling anger
acceptancewillingness to receive
growthprocess of developing
Go easy on me, baby, I was still a child go easy = be gentle · still = at that time
Didn't get the chance to feel the world around me didn't get = past lack of opportunity
I had no time to choose what I chose had no time = past constraint
I've learned to live with the things that I've done learned to live = accepted
And I'm sorry for the things that I've been I've been = past states

🧠 Song Quiz

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