🎼For those of you who would like to learn English through songs, we have chosen a splendidly beautiful one by Enya named "Only Time."
🎧Listen as many times as you may ⏮⏪⏯⏩⏭ and try to 📝 fill in the blanks. Then listen again and check your answers below. It's easy peasy!
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Only Time - By Enya
LYRICS

Who can say where the road (1)g---
Where the day (2)f----, only time
And who can say if your love (3)g----
As your heart (4)c----, only time

Who can say why your heart (5)s----
As your love (6)f----, only time
And who can say why your heart (7)c----
When your love (8)l---, only time

Who can say when the roads (9)m---
That love might (10)b- in your heart
And who can say when the day (11)s---—
If the night (12)k---- all your heart
Night (13)k---- all your heart

Who can say if your love (14)g----
As your heart (15)c----
- Only time
And who can say where the road (16)g---
Where the day (17)f----, only time

Who (18)k----? Only time

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ANSWERS:

(1) goes
(2) flows
(3) grows
(4) chose
(5) sighs
(6) flies
(7) cries
(8) lies
(9) meet
(10) be
(11) sleeps
(12) keeps
(13) keeps
(14) grows
(15) chose
(16) goes
(17) flows
(18) knows

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TRANSCRIPT:

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Iranian New Year is just around the corner. With only days remaining to the end of the current Iranian year, people are busy preparing themselves for the arrival of Nowruz or the Persian New Year.

Iranians give their homes a thorough spring clean in the days leading up to Nowruz. They even buy themselves at least one new outfit so that they too feel fresh and rejuvenated. Buying seven items starting with letter S known as Haft-Seen is also another part of the Nowruz traditions.

For Iranians, Nowruz is a celebration of renewal and change, a time to visit relatives and friends, and pay respect to senior family members. But they don't ever forget their loved ones who died the previous years. Accordingly on the last Thursday and Friday of the year they visit the graves of their deceased ones to pay respect to them once again. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized March 21 as the International Day of Nowruz, describing it as a spring festival of Persian origin which world countries should draw on to promote peace and goodwill.

Saman Kojouri, Press TV, Tehran

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Iran's ancient fire festival "Chaharshanbe Suri"

In the evening of the last Tuesday of each year, Iranians celebrate a fire festival with its roots in the ancient customs and history of the country. People set up bonfires in the streets and jump over them to cleanse themselves of all the misfortunes and impurities of the past year and get ready to welcome the coming New Year.

This is a warm welcome to Noruz and its attendant customs that precedes the festival of Sizdah Be-dar (lit. "to get rid of thirteen") a Festival of "Joy and Solidarity" celebrated on the 13th day of the Iranian New Year, which brings the Noruz celebrations to an end.

Fire, not only in historic Persia, has long been held as sacred among Indians, Europeans and many other cultures. According to ancient Iranian beliefs, Azar (Fire) was the son of Ahura Mazda. Ancient Persians believed in the purity and purifying power of fire. The belief was so strong that, to prove one's innocence, people had to cross through the fire, as Siavash did in Ferdowsi's epic poem, the Shahnameh. Chaharshanbe Suri (Chaharshanbe Soori) is the festival of fire. Chaharshanbeh means Wednesday and Suri has the meanings of red, party or festival.

People would also put food, sweets, flowers and wine on the roof of their houses and pray for their dead to appease them. This is the origin of the fire festival in Persia before the arrival of Islam and was held in the last five days of the year. But where does Chaharshanbe Suri originate from? Before we answer this question, why don't you give it a search online?

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The Story of Nowrooz Explained - Animation
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Nowrooz
How many new words can you learn from this report on Nowrooz from PressTV?
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Message from Ms Irina Bokova,
Director-General of UNESCO
on the occasion of International Day of Nowruz (21 March 2016)

What can you learn from this letter?

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