 Today's Trending Topics from eslgold.com. Now you can be part of the conversation. We're here to help you know what to talk about, understand what people are saying, and bring your speaking skills to the next level. Okay, let's get started. What's everybody talking about these days? What's trending? What do you need to know about this topic? What do you want to say about it? How do you say it? Ready? Today's topic is Sweet Caroline. Who? What? How? Sweet Caroline is a pop song by Neil Diamond that first came out in 1969 and is now being revitalized by sports fans in the UK and the US. Why is the song becoming famous again? Why do sports fans like to sing it? Let's talk about what makes this song so fun to sing. First of all, what makes a song popular? What do you think? The tune, music, the lyrics, words, the emotion it evokes or brings out? A combination of these? Something else. Pay attention to the new vocabulary words in blue. We will review them at the end of the video. What types of songs do sports fans like? Fun, upbeat, exciting, inspirational. Sweet Caroline is all of these. Let's take a closer look at what makes it so exciting for sports fans and people in general. First click on link number one below and listen to the original song by Neil Diamond. Don't forget to come back to this video to learn the fun things about the song. Okay, go ahead and pause this video then click on link number one below to listen to the song. How'd you like the song? Hope you enjoyed it. Let's see what makes the song popular. The tune is catchy and it has an easy beat. One, two, three, four. The background music evokes an upbeat feeling. The lyrics consist of two parts. The verses and the chorus, which is repeated words and tune, starting with sweet Caroline. It's easy to join in and sing along. It works well for groups of people. The fun part, one key to making the song fun is the emotional buildup, crescendo, which means the volume or loudness increases gradually toward the chorus. For example, it goes like this. Starts out soft, reaching out, touching me, touching you. You see how it builds up with the volume? Now let's see what makes the song even more exciting. People especially sports fans like to improvise when they sing the song by chanting in between the lyrics during the chorus. When the lyrics pause for a moment, the trumpets and musical instruments keep on playing and people chant or shout along with the music. The first chant is ba, ba, ba. The second chant is the phrase, so good, so good, so good. The chorus is the climax or high point of the song. So it is sung the loudest and that's where the fans join in. Let's see how it is done. Let it all out in the chorus. So you build up to the chorus and then very loudly you sing the chorus. Sweet Caroline. This is the high point. And then the song pauses for just a moment and you chant, ba, ba, ba. Then it continues. Good times never seem so good. And then you chant, so good, so good, so good. Then the lyrics continue, I've been inclined and then you chant, ba, ba, ba. To believe they never would. But now I, this is where the song slows down and gets softer for the next verse. And then it gradually builds up again until the next chorus. Listen as the audience joins in at a live concert. You can join in and sing as well. Click on link number two to hear a live audience singing along. Enjoy the song. Link number three provides the lyrics to the whole song if you want to sing the whole thing. After the music video, come back here and we'll go over the vocabulary words that you learned. Okay, pause the video and click on link number two to hear the song and sing along. Then come back here for the vocabulary review. How'd you like that? Hope you enjoyed it. Here are the vocabulary words from today's video. How many of these words can you remember? I'll say the words and you repeat them for pronunciation. Pop song. Revitalized. Tune. Lyrics. Evoke or evokes. Upbeat. Inspirational. Catchy. Beat. Verse or verses. Chorus. Crescendo. Volume. Improvise. Chant or chanting. Trumpet or trumpets. Musical instruments. Climax. Can you remember what these words mean? Here are the meanings of the vocabulary words from today. Pop song is a popular song, usually one that is enjoyed by the younger generation. Revitalized. That means it's popular again. Tune is melody or music. Lyrics are words to a song. Evoke means to bring out. Beat is positive and optimistic. Inspirational is encouraging or motivational. Catchy means instantly appealing. Beat, the rhythm or timing of music. Verse, the main segment of a song or poem. Chorus, repeated segment of a song. Crescendo, gradually getting louder. Volume is loudness. Improvise means add one's own words or actions. Chant or chanting. Repeated words or phrases. Climax, the high point. Instruments, devices for making music. Trumpet, a certain brass instrument. Here's a picture of a trumpet. Hope you enjoyed that. Remember to give us a thumbs up if you liked this video. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel. Feel free to go back and listen to the song again or as many times as you'd like. This video was brought to you by the following English learning websites. www.eslgold.com and www.freeenglishstudy.com.