What the song is about
The singer describes what they do in their free time: going to the cinema, playing the guitar and piano, singing, taking photos, drawing and painting, watching a play at the theater, reading a book and visiting an art exhibition. The chorus invites everyone to share these hobbies, and the bridge repeats the key words one by one so you can hear them clearly.
Useful words and expressions
- free time: time when you are not working or studying (Free time is the best time.)
- a movie or two: one or a few movies
- buy a ticket: what you do before you go into the cinema or a show
- the screen: the big surface where you watch a film
- strum a string: play a guitar by moving your fingers across the strings
- piano keys: the black and white parts you press on a piano
- practice: do something again and again to get better
- take a photo: the normal verb with photo is take, not make
- draw a picture / paint a flower: draw with a pen or pencil, paint with paint and a brush
- now and then: sometimes, not often
- actors, stage, audience, performance, show: words for the theater
- claps: hits the hands together to show they liked it
- exhibition, gallery: places where you look at art
- to warm the heart: to make someone feel happy and kind
- play a part: act a role in a play (it also means "be part of something")
Grammar
- Present simple for habits: I play the guitar, I practice music every night, The audience claps (with he/she/it the verb gets -s).
- like to + verb and love: I like to watch a movie, I love the arts.
- play + the + instrument: I play the guitar, the piano.
- Verbs with fixed prepositions: listen to music, look at the art, walk through the park.
- Questions with do and can: What do I do?, What can we see?
- Imperatives and let's: Enjoy the show., Let's go., Let's listen to the words again.
Watch out: words bent for the rhyme
- I walk through the park, moving slow – this is said for the rhyme with photo. In correct English we say moving slowly, because the word describes a verb.
- Actors play upon the stage – upon sounds old and poetic. In everyday English we say on stage or on the stage.