B2 · 5 minutes · Psychology

Why songs get stuck

A short talk about tunes that we cannot stop hearing in our heads.

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What you’ll practise

Follow an explanation of an everyday experience.

Words to know

melody: A tune; a series of musical notes.
repetitive: Repeating the same thing many times.
replay: To play something again.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 90% of the words in this lesson.

Show 2 words that may be new

earworm above B2Look up
unfinished above B2Look up

These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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