Welcome to the Songs page. The songs below have been chosen as they focus on a particular grammar topic as indicated in brackets. Each song may also review other grammar topics or vocabulary.
- Eat It (Food Vocabulary)
- Every Breath You Take (Simple Present)
- Talking in Your Sleep (Simple Present, Present Continuous)
- Lemon Tree (Present Continuous)
- Are You Lonesome Tonight (Present Tense Question Forms, Mixed Verbs)
- Summer of ’69 (Past Tense)
- I Won’t Back Down (Future)
- American Woman (the Imperative)
- Shine (the Imperative)
- Shiny Happy People (Adjectives, Object Pronouns)
- These Eyes (This/These, Mixed Verbs)
- Ghost Riders in the Sky (Pronouns)
- O-bla-di O-bla-da (Simple Present)
- Friday, I’m in Love (Simple Present)
- Tom’s Diner (Present Continuous, Simple Present)
- The Man Who Sold the World (Simple Past)
- Yellow Submarine ( Mixed Simple Past, Simple Present)
- Eye of the Tiger (Nouns, Pronouns, Determiners)
- Should I Stay or Should I go? (Modals)
- In the Summertime (Mixed verbs and vocabulary)
- Ghostbusters (Gonna, Miscellaneous Verbs, Colloquial Speech)
- And She Was (Past Continuous, Present Continuous, Mixed Vocab)
- Some Days Are Better Than Others (Adjectives)
- The Logical Song (Adjectives and Adverbs)
- To it and At it (mixed verbs)
- Working for the Weekend (Present Tenses)
- Down Under (Australian English, Simple Past)
- We are the Champions (Present Perfect)
- Ghost Riders in the Sky (Simple Past, Passive Voice, Western Vocabulary)
- If (Conditionals)
- The Gambler (Reduced speech, Simple Past)
- Everybody Knows (Mixed Verbs)
- If I Had a Million Dollars (Conditionals)
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Present Perfect, mixed verbs)
- Hang On (Phrasal verbs, idioms)
- Rasputin (Mixed verbs)
- Red Right Hand (prepositions)
- Iron Man (Question word order, Mixed verbs, Superhero vocabulary)
- I Hung My Head (Simple Past, Past Perfect)
- Papa Don’t Preach (Mixed Verbs, Present Perfect Continuous)
- Life’s Been Good (Mixed Verbs, Present Perfect)
- The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Mixed Verbs, Musician Vocabulary)
- Runnin’ down a dream (Reduced -ing Forms, Simple Past)
- Holier than thou (Body parts, Mixed Verbs, Comparisons)
- Gangsta’s Paradise (Colloquial Language)
- Tacky (Clothing, Verbs, Adjectives)
- Word Crimes (Language Teaching Vocabulary)
- The Majesty of Rock (British English, Royalty Language)
- Avalon (Fantasy Vocabulary, Present Perfect)
- I Will Survive (Modals)
- Home for a Rest (Present Perfect, Mixed Verbs)
- We’re Not Gonna Take It (Future)
- I’ve Been Waiting For a Girl Like You (Present Perfect Progressive)
- Blinding Lights (Mixed Verbs)
- Play That Funky Music (Mixed Verbs)
- Lose Yourself (Colloquial Language)
- The Choice is Yours (This, That, General Vocabulary)
Field-Specific Songs
Below are songs related to specific fields of study. They focus on miscellaneous language points and may be attempted by students of all English levels.
IB
Below are songs related to the themes covered in the IB program. These include Identity, Experience, Social Organization, Human Ingenuity and Sharing the Planet.
- The Devil Inside
- Numb
- Man in the Mirror
- Black or white
- Creep
- I am a rock
- American Woman
- How soon is now?
- Material Girl
- Say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud
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