Song: “Birds Of A Feather”

– B2-C1 (intermediate to advanced) –

Practice Your Listening Comprehension

Practice Your Reading Comprehension

According to international music statistics, Billie Eilish is currently (January 2025) the most-listened-to artist in the world. With more than 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify, billions of YouTube views of her music videos, and two Oscar wins and nine Grammy awards to her name, she is not only the most popular singer/songwriter, but a very talented one at that.

WHAT TO LEARN

By listening to her 2024 hit, “Birds Of A Feather,” you can learn and practice your English language skills in a variety of ways:

• listening comprehension

• reading comprehension (by reading the lyrics)

• pronunciation (by singing along to the song)

• American English

• sentence stress

• present simple

• past simple

• conditional

• imperative

• contractions

• subject ellipsis

• verbal ellipsis

• idiom: “Birds of a feather flock together”

• unvoiced plosives

• vocabulary

  • love

  • death

  • exaggeration

• and much more…!

Are you a fan of Billie Eilish? What is your favourite song by her and why? Practice your English by letting me know in the comments below.

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ATTRIBUTION

Photo courtesy of Justin Higuchi - ALTer EGO 1/18/2020, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons