Level 1 — Absolute Beginner
Singer Ariana Grande finished her big concert tour. It is called the Eternal Sunshine Tour. The last show was in London, England.
Her foot was hurt, so she wore boots, not high heels. She still sang for two hours. Fans loved the show.
She sang a new song for the first time on this tour. She also changed some words in an old song. The new words were about her boyfriend, Ricky.
Ricky watched the show from the crowd. Ariana says she hopes he will be her last love.
- singer
- a person who sings, especially as a job
- tour
- a series of concerts in different cities
- concert
- a live music show
- injury
- damage or harm to part of the body
- boots
- shoes that cover the foot and part of the leg
- lyric
- the words of a song
- boyfriend
- a man that a person is romantically dating
- crowd
- a large group of people gathered together
Level 2 — Elementary
Ariana Grande brought her Eternal Sunshine Tour to a close on September 1 with an emotional two-hour concert at The O2 Arena in London. The singer performed despite a foot injury, choosing boots over her usual heels for the final show.
Fans got several surprises that night. Grande gave the live debut of a song called 'nowhere, nobody' and performed 'warning signs (interlude)' on tour for the first time.
She also rewrote a line in her hit song 'thank u, next.' Instead of the original words about a former relationship, she sang a new line about her current boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez, saying she is trying to make him her last love.
Alvarez was in the audience for the finale, and Grande has spoken publicly about hoping their relationship will last. The tour's final stop capped months of shows across multiple countries.
- emotional
- showing or causing strong feelings
- debut
- the first public performance of something
- rewrite
- to write something again with changes
- hit song
- a very popular and successful song
- relationship
- a romantic connection between two people
- audience
- the group of people watching a performance
- publicly
- in a way that is open and known to many people
- cap
- here, to bring a final and fitting end to something
Level 3 — Intermediate
Ariana Grande brought the Eternal Sunshine Tour to a close on September 1 with a two-hour finale at The O2 Arena in London, performing through a foot injury that forced her to swap her usual heels for boots without noticeably scaling back the choreography.
The closing night was built around a run of surprises reserved for the final stop, including the live debut of 'nowhere, nobody' and the tour's first performance of 'warning signs (interlude),' songs that had appeared on the album but not previously made the setlist.
The most talked-about moment came during 'thank u, next,' where Grande altered a line originally about moving on from a former relationship into a hopeful reference to her current boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez, who was present in the audience for the show.
The change fits a pattern Grande has followed throughout the tour's press cycle, in which she has spoken candidly about wanting the relationship to be lasting, framing it as a departure from the romantic uncertainty that shaped much of the Eternal Sunshine album itself.
- choreography
- the planned sequence of movements or dance in a performance
- setlist
- the list of songs a performer plans to play during a show
- alter
- to change something slightly
- candidly
- in an open and honest way
- framing
- presenting something in a particular way to shape how it is understood
- departure
- a move away from what is usual or expected
- uncertainty
- a state of not being sure about something
- press cycle
- a period of media coverage surrounding an event or release
Level 4 — Advanced
The closing night of the Eternal Sunshine Tour, staged at The O2 Arena in London on September 1, functioned less as a routine finale than as a curated coda, with Grande working through a foot injury that visibly altered her footwear but not, by most accounts, the ambition of the choreography she delivered across a full two hour set.
The evening's structure leaned on scarcity as a form of spectacle: both 'nowhere, nobody' and 'warning signs (interlude)' had existed on the album since its release but had been withheld from the touring setlist until this final show, converting familiar recorded material into a live rarity reserved for the tour's most attentive audience.
The rewritten couplet in 'thank u, next,' a song whose original architecture was built around cataloguing past relationships with detachment, inverted that premise by naming a present, ongoing one, a move that reframes a song often read as an anthem of self-sufficiency into a vehicle for public commitment.
Read against Grande's broader commentary throughout the tour's press cycle, the gesture reads as continuous with, rather than a departure from, the emotional register of Eternal Sunshine itself, an album substantially preoccupied with the difficulty of trusting a new relationship after a public and difficult one, now resolved, at least rhetorically, in front of an arena of witnesses.
- coda
- a concluding part of a performance or piece of art that brings it to a close
- scarcity
- the state of being limited in availability
- spectacle
- a striking or dramatic public display
- couplet
- two consecutive lines of a song or poem, often paired in meaning
- architecture
- here, the underlying structure or design of a piece of writing
- detachment
- an emotional distance or lack of personal involvement
- invert
- to reverse the position, order, or meaning of something
- register
- here, the overall tone or emotional character of a work
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