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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Phrases: Music and Song

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

  1. Most modern pop music is instantly forgettable. It doesn't have a   tune and thirty seconds after it stops, you've forgotten it.
  2. One of my friends used to work as a   for a major rock band. It was very hard work, lifting all their equipment and driving from city to city.
  3. The concert itself only lasted about an hour but the crowd kept cheering so the band came back and did three long   .
  4. There was a pianist playing at a bar I went to last week and I asked him if he took   and he said he did, but he didn't know anything by 'Megadeath'.
  5. Mark Harris started out in the boy   'The Bad Lads', before launching a very successful solo career in the late nineties.
  6. Our English teacher thinks he's really cool. Every time he wants us to start talking together he says 'Lets   ' .
  7. I'm really into   music. I think music from different cultural backgrounds is so much more interesting than British and American pop.
  8. I managed to get a ticket to a Rolling Stones'   a few months back but then one of the band members got sick and they had to cancel.
  9. In the early days, the Beatles didn't play their own music. They just did   of famous US rock and roll artists.
  10. The Albert Hall is a fantastic   for a classical concert. The acoustics are absolutely perfect.
  11. At the concert, the lead singer dedicated one of the songs   all the civilians who were suffering in Iraq.
  12. I love their music. Whenever I hear them, I can't help tapping my fingers and   along.

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