Introduction to the Doris Day Song, Sentimental Journey. Learn English with Simple English Videos

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What are you doing? I'm warming up for the song.

What song? Today's lesson is about a song. Remember?

Oh, that's been cancelled. Oh.

You can go home now. Really?

Yeah, we don't need you. Oh.

This week's lesson comes in the form of a song, and the wonderful Doris Day is the singer.

The song is about a journey - a sentimental journey. Sentimental? It means it touches

her heart. So it's a journey that she's taking for emotional rather than practical reasons.

Perhaps there's a time or place in your life that you feel sentimental about too?

Maybe it's somewhere you yearn to return to. Or maybe there's someone you long to see again.

'Yearn' and 'long' are both verbs here, and they have very similar meanings.

We use them to talk about things we desire or want very much.

We use 'yearn' when it's somethings that difficult or impossible to do.

And we use 'long' when it's something that won't happen soon.

You'll also hear this word in the song. This word doesn't exist in English.

It's not a real word. The song writer made it up and I think it's my favourite word in

the song. So listen to the song and tell me what your

favourite words are. And I have a question too. What sentimental

journey would you like to take if you could. Is there a place or a time in your life that

you'd like to revisit? Tell us in the comments.

But I thought the song was cancelled. No. Doris Day is singing it.