You can find links to popular songs with their lyrics, lesson plans and handouts that you can easily use in your class. All you need to do is to choose the right level, topic or objective that you want to cover with your students.
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Music, as an international language, takes a very important part in our lives; especially in our students’ lives. While reading a book, driving a car, having a cup of coffee with our friends, don’t you listen to music; doesn’t it change the atmosphere of the place; doesn’t it change your mood easily? So, why not use songs in class while students are reading a text, writing an essay, filling in the blanks? What’s more, why not use songs that are popular among our students in class to present or practise a grammar goal in English or teach vocabulary or even practise different skills?
Here, in this blog you will find a variety of songs with their teaching ideas and handouts. Your feedback and contributions are highly appreciated.
A very nice song that can be used with the theme of Universe in a Science Unit:) The words deleted in the lyrics address the words related to the Universe:) Enjoy:))
Here is Galaxy Song, Monty Pythonwith a QR code for the video clip.
Put the students into two groups. One group listens to “We are young” by Fun and the other group listens to ” I know what it is to be young” by Orson Wells. With lower levels you can give the lyrics for them to follow. Then, pair them up and ask them to compare the emotions and the messages in these two songs. They can prepare a poster to show the differences between these two age groups.
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Another nice and romantic song that can be used to revise body parts. Students are expected to spot the mistakes in the lyrics while listening to the song. All mistakes are related to the body parts. Shhhhh! don’t tell this to the students.
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A very nice song that can be used for a “guess the story” activity. Can be used to revise conditional type 1, wishes for present & future, reported speech. Check the worksheet here: Knock Knock by Brunettes Shoot Blondes
A very nice song to practice past forms of the verbs; plus a few continuous forms. As a follow up activity you may want to continue with the question writing task. Enjoy:)
Here is another song to practice adjectives. Enjoy:)
Worksheet:Â GO GENTLE
This is a very nice song to practice prepositions, which you can use at all levels. You may want to provide the prepositions that they need to complete the blanks in a box or you can write them up on the board.
Here is the worksheet :Â Somewhere only we know.