Practice participle clauses in your ESL class with this song, She’s leaving home by The Beatles. This song contains 10 different examples of the present participle (gerund) used as a participle clause (closing…, leaving…, clutching…, turning…, stepping…, leaving…, living…, standing…, waiting… & meeting…). Notice there are no examples of the past participle as a participle…
Practice adverbs of manner in your ESL class with this song, Wishing Well by Terence Trent D’Arby. The 5 adverbs of manner that appear in this song are: “slowly”, “sweetly”, “softly”, “quickly” and “loudly”. To see suggestions on how to use this song in class, click here. Lyrics Kissing like a bandit stealing time underneath…
Practice adverbs of place in your ESL class with this song, Here, there and everywhere by The Beatles. The adverbs of place that appear in this song are “here”, “there”, “everywhere”, and “beside”. Also, the adverbs of frequency “always” and “never” also appear. To see suggestions on how to use this song in class, click…
Practise adverbs of frequency in your ESL class with this song, Lost Boy by Ruth B. The 4 adverbs of frequency that appear in this song are: “always” (x2), “usually”, “sometimes” & “never” (x2). To see suggestions on how to use this song in class, click here. Lyrics There was a time when I was…
Practice the topic of “school subjects” in your ESL class with this song, Wonderful World by Sam Cooke. The 10 school subjects and other school-related vocabulary that appear in this song’s lyrics are: algebra, an A student, book, biology, French, geography, history, science, took (took a subject) & trigonometry There is a suggestion on how to use this…
Practice indefinite pronouns in your ESL class with this song, Somewhere by K’s Choice. These song lyrics include multiple examples of the following indefinite pronouns: something, everything, somewhere, somebody, anything & anyone. There is a suggestion on how to use this song in your ESL classes below, but for more ideas, click here. Lyrics There’s…
Practice indefinite pronouns in your ESL class with this song, I’m with you by Avril Lavigne. These song lyrics include at least two examples of each of the following 7 indefinite pronouns: nothing, anyone, somebody, somewhere, anybody, everything & no-one. There is a suggestion on how to use this song in your ESL classes below,…
Practice the modal verbs “may” and “might” as well as “jobs” in your ESL class with this song, Gotta Serve Somebody by Bob Dylan. There are almost 50 examples of “may” and “might” and 13 different professions mentioned in these song lyrics. Note: The lyrics below are those of the video embedded on this page….
Practice vocabulary related to “food” in your ESL class with this song, Food, Glorious Food by Lionel Bart. The 22 food-related vocabulary words and expressions in this song is: gruel, crust, crumb, sausage, mustard, jelly, custard, pudding, saveloys, indigestion, banquets, diet, steak, fried, roasted, stewed, burned, underdone, crude, cook, grow fat & full-up feeling To…
Practice vocabulary related to “food” in your ESL class with this song, Eat it by Weird Al Yankovic. The 31 food-related vocabulary words in these lyrics are: banana, beat (an egg), boiled, a bunch (of bananas), canned, chicken, casserole, chow down, dessert, dinner, eat, egg, feed, food, fresh, fried, be full, fussy, get cold/getting cold,…
Practice animals and animal sounds in your ESL class with this really fun song, What does the fox say? by Ylvis. These song lyrics include the following 12 animals’ names and the sounds they make: dog, cat, bird, mouse, cow, frog, elephant, duck, fish, seal, fox & horse. Other nature-related vocabulary words in the song…
Practice adjectives in your ESL class with this song, The Logical Song by Supertramp. The 24 adjectives which appear in these song lyrics are: wonderful, beautiful, magical, sensible, logical, responsible, practical, dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical, asleep, deep, simple, absurd, radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal, acceptable, respectable, presentable, digital & unbelievable. It also contains the adverbs: happily, joyfully, playfully & too. There…
Practice adjectives related to being bad in your ESL class with this song, Rotten to the core by Sofia Carson. The adjectives which appear in these song lyrics are: bad, evil, glad, dirty, callous, useless, misunderstood, wicked, rotten, unique, original & unusual. Note: although we are often told that the comparative and superlative of “bad”…
Practice comparative and superlative adjectives in the ESL classroom with this song, My Love by Petula Clark. The comparative & superlative adjectives which appear in this song are: warmer, warmest, softer, deeper, deepest, wider, brighter & brightest. To see suggestions on how to use this song in class, click here. Lyrics My love is warmer…
Practice phrasal verbs in your ESL class with this song, Hang On by Smash Mouth. The 14 phrasal verbs used in these lyrics are: keep on, look up, turn up, turn down, gather round, be around, hold on, hang on, get on, go on, throw in (the towel), beat sb down, turn sth back around & tone down….
Practise the present simple (especially the third person singular) and vocabulary related to jobs in your ESL class with this song, She’s Not Just a Pretty Face by Shania Twain. There are 13 examples of the third person singular in this song: She hosts / she rides / She plays / She is / she…
Revise the present simple, the present continuous and the future “will” in your ESL class with this song, Big Time by Peter Gabriel. These song lyrics also include examples of the present perfect, the future continuous and “going to”, as well as adjectives and the comparative/superlative (big, small, snow-white, amazed, fat, bigger, larger, smarter, widest). The song is…
Revise the past continuous, the past simple, the present perfect & phrasal verbs in your ESL class with this song, Don’t you want me baby? by The Human League. This song uses the following verbs in the following tenses: In addition to the tenses mentioned above, this song also contains the following 6 phrasal verbs:…
Practice months in your ESL class with this song, Calendar by Boney M. These song lyrics include all the months of the year. To see suggestions on how to use this song in class, click here. Lyrics January, February, March, April, May June, July January, February, March, April, May June, July August, September, October November,…
Practice the topic of “nature” in your ESL class with this song, Feeling Good by Nina Simone. This song’s lyrics contain the following 15 nature-related vocabulary words: birds, sun, sky, breeze, dawn, fish, sea, river, blossom, tree, dragonfly, butterfly, world, stars & pine. It is also appropriate for beginners. There is a suggestion on how…