![]() ![]() ![]() There is another use and I think that’s what Shawn Mendes means. Some viruses and bug bites can leave you with sores. It can also be a type of injury, usually caused by your skin rubbing against something or been damaged so that it hurts when you touch it. I played football at the weekend and my legs are really sore today. Sore means painful because of an injury or infection or because you have done something too much. Shawn sings that no one has ever left him quite this sore. You might hear I can’t believe they left you like this. To leave someone some way means to leave someone in a specific situation. He sings: no one’s ever left me quite this sore. I thought that I’d been hurt before, but I was wrong. This first line is just setting up the second line. In the song, the implication is that Shawn had been emotionally hurt by someone, probably a romantic partner. The verb hurt is almost always used in the passive. As for the vocabulary, to be hurt means to have experienced pain because of what someone else did. I thought, an event or situation in the past, that I’d been hurt before – an event even further in the past than the first event. Now I need someone to breathe me back to lifeįrom an English teacher’s point of view, this first line is great. The first verseīut no one’s ever left me quite this sore It is these sort of stitches that Shawn Mendes is singing about. If you have an operation, at the end of the operation, the doctor will sew up the hole they made to do the operation. So when I was younger, my cat split my lip open and I needed two stitches to hold the skin together so it could heal. You thread some cotton through the needle and then you use the pointy end to stab through two pieces of cloth and then pull the thread through so you can use the thread to hold the pieces together.Īs well as sewing cloth together with stitches, you can sew up a wound with stitches. You need a needle which is a tiny sharp thin piece of metal with a little hole at the end. A stitch is where two pieces of cloth are held together with thread. it’s a bit more advanced than I reckoned. I’m a bit embarrassed because the Cambridge learners dictionary actually labels the word stitches C2 so …. I’m going to go through the song line by line, looking at the most interesting words and phrases and trying to explain what I think the song means. Normally, I would save this sort of lesson for a higher level podcast, but I think that most of the language in this song is appropriate to look at in a B1 Intermediate podcast. I’m going to be honest with you, Christian, I had never heard of Shawn Mendes before looking him up to write this podcast, but I’m afraid that says far more about me than it does Shawn Mendes. This podcast was requested by Christian from Germany. ![]() Today, I want to talk about the lyrics to a song called Stitches by the Canadian singer Shawn Mendes. There’s a page for this podcast with the transcript, an activity and a task for you to do in the comments section. You can find a transcript of this podcast on .uk. ![]() My name is Jack and I’m making this podcast for you to learn or revise English vocabulary. Hello and welcome to Learn English Vocabulary. ![]()
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