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A collection of song lyrics to teach English vocabulary and grammar in the ESL classroom

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Grammar & Topics

Beginners' Lyrics (11)
- Basic level (8)
- REALLY basic level (3)
Grammar Constructions (24)
- Conditionals (9)
  - 1st conditional (4)
  - 2nd conditional (4)
  - 3rd conditional (2)
- Imperatives (1)
- Inversion (1)
- Passive voice (1)
- Relative clauses (2)
  - Defining relative clauses (2)
- Reported speech (4)
- So & neither/nor (1)
- Wish (4)
- Would rather (1)
Interrogative (19)
- Question words (8)
  - All the question words (1)
  - How (2)
  - How many (2)
  - What (2)
  - Whose (1)
- Questions (19)
  - Question tags (1)
  - Subject questions (1)
- Short answers (1)
Modal verbs (12)
- Modal verbs of ability (6)
- Modal verbs of deduction (2)
- Modal verbs of obligation (5)
- Modal verbs of possibility (5)
- Past modals (1)
Parts of Speech (43)
- Adjectives (9)
  - Adjectives of personality (1)
  - Comparative & Superlative (3)
  - Describing people (3)
- Adverbs (5)
  - Adverbs of frequency (2)
  - Adverbs of manner (2)
  - Adverbs of place (1)
- Connectors (2)
- Indefinite pronouns (3)
- Nouns (15)
  - Clothes (1)
  - Colours (2)
  - Days of the week (1)
  - Family (1)
  - Food (2)
  - Jobs (2)
  - Months (1)
  - Nature (4)
    - Animals (2)
    - Weather (1)
  - School subjects (1)
- Other (1)
  - Another, other(s), the other(s) (1)
- Participle clauses (1)
  - Gerund (1)
- Prepositions (4)
  - ON, AT & IN (1)
- Quantifiers (1)
- Verbs (4)
  - Body movements & actions (1)
  - Phrasal verbs (2)
  - The verb "TO GET" (1)
Tenses (46)
- Multiple Tenses (for revision) (8)
- Past Tenses (23)
  - All narrative tenses (1)
  - Past continuous (2)
  - Past perfect (2)
  - Past simple (9)
    - Irregular verbs (8)
  - Present perfect (10)
    - Present perfect continuous (4)
    - Present perfect simple (7)
      - For & since (1)
  - Used to (1)
- Present Tense (12)
  - Present continuous (2)
  - Present simple (10)
    - 3rd person singular (5)
- The Future (7)
  - Future continuous (1)
  - Future perfect (1)
  - Going to (4)
  - Will (1)
Topics (26)
- Christmas holidays (3)
  - New year's resolutions (1)
- Customs (1)
- Drugs (1)
- Education (1)
- Environment (2)
- Equality (5)
  - Gender Equality (2)
  - LGBT issues (1)
  - Racism (1)
  - Social Equality (1)
- Gender Violence (1)
- Halloween (3)
- Health & Medicine (2)
- Money (1)
- Murphy's Law (1)
- Music (1)
- Science (1)
- Sport (1)
- Summer holidays (1)
- Transport & Travel (1)
- War & Peace (1)

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There are many the verb “to be” (present) songs, or songs with the verb “to be” (present) in the lyrics, and you may know of other webpages similar to this one that have different songs with the verb “to be” (present) lyrics, but this is possibly the best the verb “to be” (present) song for your ESL classes, and to make life easier for you check to see if there is a worksheet you can download so that you can study and practise the verb “to be” (present) in songs with your students!