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TABLE 2:  Brief List of Artists & ESL practice

Lyrics & ESL/EFL worksheets for

• No More I Love Yous to practise the following:
  • gerund v infinitive (with/without TO)
  • simple present v present continuous
  • prepositions
  • sequencing (upper-intermediate)
  • subject for discussion:  Mental Health Issues

AQUA

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Barbie Girl  to practise Cloze

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• When The Sun Goes Down  to practise Sequencing

AVRIL LAVIGNE

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Sk8er Boy to practise Nouns
• Mobile to practise Prepositions & Particles
• Things I'll Never Say to practise Tenses
• Complicated to practise Sequencing

Grammar index

BEYONCE

• Sweet Dreams My LA Ex  to practise Sequencing, Nouns 

Grammar index

BLACK SABBATH

• Paranoid  to practise Clauses, Writing Reviews, Discuss negative v positive ways of looking at things 

Grammar index

BON JOVI

• It's My Life  to practise Sequencing, Definite v Indefinite Articles v None 

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Crashed The Wedding to practise 
  • Prepositions & Particles
  • Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive (with/without TO)
  • Pronouns & Articles (Possessive & Demonstrative)

  Grammar index

• Quiz (Titles)
• Album Lists
• Create your own comprehensive ESL/EFL worksheets. Ideas & advice given
  • And I Love Her to describe a current boyfriend/girlfriend or an old flame.
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret to practise reported speech, confiding & betraying
  • I'm So Tired to practise: identifying & categorising pronouns & adjectives
  • I Saw Her Standing There to practise:  questions, vocabulary, creative writing
  • Paperback Writer to practise:  Letter-writing, dictation & Formal v Informal English
  • Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to practise:  intonation & listening, etc.
  • She's Leaving Home to practise:  intonation & listening, etc.
  • Things we said today to practise:  listening for words, true/false, reported speech
  • Think For Yourself to practise: identifying & categorising pronouns & adjectives
  • With A Little Help From My Friends to practise:  intonation & listening, etc. 

JOHN LENNON

• Create your own comprehensive ESL/EFL worksheets. Ideas & advice given

  • Imagine by John Lennon (+ further practice ideas)

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Young Hearts Run Free to practise: articles, discussion &/or composition about relationshiips

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) to practise: Simple Past, Nouns

Grammar index

CHUMBAWUMBA 

• Tubthumper to practise Simple Present, Sequencing

Grammar index

COLDPLAY 

• Fix You to practise Simple Present, Sequencing, Comprehension

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheet for 

• Spin to practise sequencing.  This song can be used to introduce a range of subjects for discussion (from politics to obesity)

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheet for

•  I Don't Want You Back to practise sequencing and dialogue. This song can be used to introduce a range of subjects for discussion (from politics to obesity)

Grammar index

ELVIS PRESLEY

• In The Ghetto to practise: nouns, adjectives, tenses, verbs, sequencing

Grammar index

EMINEM:  

• Business to practise: sequencing

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• My Way to practise: nouns, adjectives, tenses, verbs, sequencing, spellings, etc.
• Plus further practice

Grammar index

GARY JULES

• Mad World to practice:  sequencing, synonyms, antonyms

Grammar index

GEORGE MICHAEL

• The Strangest Thing to practise: Prepositions, Cloze
• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• I Will Survive to practise: Tenses, Gerunds, Prepositions & Particles

Grammar index

• Crazy to practise: 
  • transfer
  • degrees of certainty & quantity
  • ways of laughing
  • prepositional phrases

  Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• The Anthem to practise Articles, Prepositions & Particles

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Goodbye My Lover to practise:  Sequencing, Past Tenses, Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive (with/without TO)

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• I Swear to practise Adjectives & Adverbs

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

•   SHUT UP to practise: Listening, Sequencing, Pronunciation, Spellings

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• If There's Any Justice to practise:  WOULD/SHOULD & Mixed Tenses

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Thunder In My Heart to practise:  Sequencing & Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive (with/without TO)

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Sorry to practise:  Gapped Dialogue (Match or complete)

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• A Design For Life to practise: sequencing. This song can be used to introduce the subjects of Depression, Low self-esteem, Self-harming, Sex v Love.  Further practice is in the form of internet research.

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• This Love to practise: Listening, Tenses, Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive, Prepositions & Particles, Articles, NEVER + full infinitive.

Grammar index

MS..DYNAMITE 

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Dy-na-mi-tee to practise Sequencing

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) to practise: Simple Past, Nouns

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• These Words to practise:  Nouns (Proper, Compound, Common), Verb Forms (Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive with/without TO), Fun Comprehension, Discussion or Composition

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Family Portrait to practise:Mixed Tenses, Prepositions & Particles, Comprehension, Discussion or Composition

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Learning To Fly to practise Prepositions

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• We Are The Champions to practise:  Spelling & Pronunciation, Present Perfect, Prepositions & Particles, Common Phrases, Making Suitable Responses
• The Show Must Go On for intermediate to advanced levels to practise Prepositions & Particles
• I'm Going Slightly Mad  for intermediate to advanced levels to practise Cloze, Sequencing, Idioms
• Radio Ga Ga for intermediate levels to practise sequencing, total cloze, subject/object questions, simple present v simple past

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• My Way to practise: nouns, adjectives, tenses, verbs, sequencing, spellings, etc.
• Plus further practice

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• I Don't Want To Talk About It  to practise Sequencing, First Conditional

Grammar index

SHAKIRA

• Whenever, Wherever  to practise: Gerund v Infinitive v Past Participle0
• Underneath your clothes  to practise: Spelling & Pronunciation
• Cool I am to practise: Sequencing
• Hey Mr. DJ  to practise: Sequencing)

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Shut Up to practise:  Cloze & Dictation

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Staying Alive to practise:  Sequencing & Roleplay

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) to practise:  Sequencing

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Boys Will Be Boys to practise: Sequencing & Vocabulary

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Laura to practice Sequencing & Bingo

Grammar index

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• The Drugs Don't Work to practice Sequencing & Discussion/Composition

Grammar index

TRADITIONAL SONGS TO USE 

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets 

• The Blacksmith (free sample) A traditional English song  (Practise: ' gerund v infinitive v past participle', paraphrasing).  Music for 'The Lady In White' and more EFL/ESL worksheets can be purchased from this website.  

• There Were Ten In The Bed
• Ten Green Bottles
• One Man Went To Mow A Meadow
• Old MacDonald's Farm

CHANTS FOR SUPPORTERS AT SCHOOL SPORTS EVENTS 

• For a swimming Gala
• For any competitive event

NURSERY RHYMES FOR ESL TODDLERS

• Tommy Thumb to learn finger & thumb vocabulary (+ keyboard notes)

• Wiggly Woo

• Old King Cole

• The Happy Song

CHRISTMAS SONGS

(ESL/EFL Practice)

• Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) sung by The Darkness
• Christmas Carols to present the story of the Nativity. (Away In A Manger, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks At Night, We Three Kings)
• Fun Christmas Songs:
  • Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Jingle Bells
  • We Wish You A Merry Christmas
  • All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
  • I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus

• Click here for full Christmas Index

ARTICLES, REVIEWS & ESSAYS ABOUT MUSIC 

• Music + Violent Images + Teenagers by Bibi Boarder

• Teen Violence & Music:  The Real Connection by Marcus Strife (age 16)

• Readers' Feedback Page

• Punk or Rock? The lyrics of some of Avril Lavigne's songs and a link to an article by Jessica Zietz

CREATE YOUR OWN WORKSHEETS

• Create your own ESL worksheets for songs (Instructions) 

• Create your own ESL worksheets for And I Love Her, sung by The Beatles'

TABLE 3 - INDEX OF 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRACTICE FOR SONGS 

ON THIS WEBSITE

• Grammar Correction (please scroll to the next box)

• Grammar Rules (At-a-glance)

• Grammar Practice

  • Articles (Definite, Indefinite, None)

  • Adjectives

  • Nouns

  • Pronouns

  • Prepositions & Particles

  • Gerunds v Past Participle v Infinitive (with/without TO)

  • Verbs

  • Tenses

  • Modal Auxiliaries

  • Cloze

• Questions & Question Words

• Reported Speech

• Clauses

• Comprehension

• Common & Useful Phrases

• Specific Vocabulary Practice

• Special Constructions

• Functional English

• Comparative Language Studies

• Creative Writing

• Sequencing Practice

• Intonation & Stress Practice

• Spelling & Pronunciation

• Specific Speaking Practice

• Group Singing Practice

• Subjects for Debate or Discussion

• Tailor Your Language

• An Introduction to the Classics (Lesson Plans, Memory Aids, Varied Activities, etc.)

• Learning Aids

• Reading Practice

• Icebreakers

• Christian Works

RELATED PAGES

• Christmas Index (ESL/EFL)

• Songs (listed by singer)

• General Feedback & Requests for Help 

• Your Grammar Questions (verbs, tenses, concept questions, etc.)

GRAMMATICAL CORRECTION

• SONG:  I Saw Her Standing There sung by The Beatles

DEFINITE v INDEFINITE ARTICLES

• SONG: The Anthem sung by Good Charlotte

• SONG: This Love sung by Maroon 5

• SONG: Young Hearts Run Free sung by Candi Staton

• SONG: When The Sun Goes Down sung by Arctic Monkeys

• SONG: It's My Life sung by Bon Jovi

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

ADJECTIVES

• SONG: In The Ghetto sung by Elvis Presley

• SONG: I Swear sung by Michael Montgomery

• SONG: I'm So Tired sung by The Beatles

• SONG: Think For Yourself sung by The Beatles

NOUNS 

• SONG:  Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex sung by Beyonce

• SONG:  Sk8ter Boi sung by Avril Lavigne

• SONG: In The Ghetto sung by Elvis Presley

• SONG:  Roxanne sung by Fall Out Boy, The Police, Sting, George Michael, Puff Daddy

• POEM: The Leaky Boat by Iris Boarder

• SONG: These Words sung by Natasha Bedingfield

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

PRONOUNS

• SONG: Crashed The Wedding (Busted) Subject Pronouns, Object Pronouns, Possessive Pronouns  

• SONG: I'm So Tired sung by The Beatles

• SONG: Think For Yourself sung by The Beatles

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

PREPOSITIONS & PARTICLES

• SONG: Crashed The Wedding (Busted)

• SONG:  Mobile sung by Avril Lavigne

• SONG:  I Will Survive sung by Gloria Gaynor

• SONG:  The Anthem sung by Good Charlotte

• SONG:  We Are The Champions sung by Queen

• SONG:  The Show Must Go On sung by Queen

• SONG: This Love sung by Maroon 5

• SONG: Family Portrait sung by Pink

• SONG: Learning to Fly sung by Pink Floyd

• SONG: No More I Love Yous sung by Annie Lennox

• SONG: Single by Natasha Bedingfield 

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

GERUND v PAST PARTICIPLE v INFINITIVE (with/without TO)

• SONG: I Will Survive sung by Gloria Gaynor

• SONG: Whenever Wherever sung by Shakira

• SONG: Crashed The Wedding (Busted)

• SONG: This Love sung by Maroon 5

• SONG: These Words sung by Natasha Bedingfield

• SONG: When The Sun Goes Down sung by Arctic Monkeys

• SONG: Thunder In My Heart sung by Leo Sayer

• SONG: Goodbye My Lover sung by James Blunt

• SONG: No More I Love Yous sung by Annie Lennox

VERBS  

• SONG: In The Ghetto sung by Elvis Presley

TENSES

MIXED TENSES 

• SONG: This Love sung by Maroon 5

• SONG: I Will Survive sung by Gloria Gaynor

• SONG: Family Portrait sung by Pink

• SONG:: My Way sung by Frank Sinatra & Robbie Williams

• SONG:  Roxanne sung by Fall Out Boy, The Police, Sting, George Michael, Puff Daddy

• SONG: Lemar If There's Any Justice In The World

• SONG: Radio Ga Ga sung by Queen Simple present v past simple

• SONG: Single sung by Natasha Bedingfield

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

PRESENT TENSES

• SONG: Fix You sung by Coldplay (Practice:  Simple Present)

• SONG: Things I'll Never Say sung by Avril Lavigne (Practice: Simple present & present continuous)

• SONG:  Tubthumper sung by Chumbawumba (Practice: simple present)

• SONG:  In The Ghetto sung by Elvis Presley (Practice: simple present & present continuous)

• SONG:  No More I Love Yous sung by Annie Lennox

PAST TENSES

• SONG: Goodbye My Lover sung by James Blunt

• SONG:   We Are The Champions sung by Queen (Practice: Present Perfect)

• STORY for beginners by Carl Boarder entitled Mr. Hungry (Practice: Simple Past)

FIRST CONDITIONAL

• SONG:   I Don't Want To Talk About It sung by Rod Stewart

2ND CONDITIONAL & MIXED

• SONG: Lemar

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

MODAL AUXILIARIES

• SONG: Lemar WOULD  = wanted to 

• SONG: Lemar SHOULD = happened to  

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles for Modal & Auxiliary Verbs 

CLOZE

• SONG:      Barbie Girl sung by Aqua

• SONG:      The Strangest Thing sung by George Michael

• SONG:      I'm Going Slightly Mad sung by Queen

• SONG:      Shut Up sung by Black-eyed Peas

• SONG:      Radio Ga Ga sung by Queen

• SONG:      Crazy sung by Gnarls Barkley

• SONG:      With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles (total cloze)

• SONG:      With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles (random cloze)

QUESTIONS & QUESTION WORDS

• SONG:  Radio Ga Ga sung by Queen subject/object questions + question words

REPORTED SPEECH

• SONG:  Do You Want To Know A Secret sung by The Beatles

• SONG:  Things We Said Today sung by The Beatles

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

CLAUSES

• SONG: My Way sung by Frank Sinatra & Robbie Williams
• SONG: Paranoid sung by Black Sabbath

COMPREHENSION

• SONG:  Do You Want To Know A Secret sung by The Beatles

• SONG: I Saw Her Standing There sung by The Beatles

• SONG: These Words sung by Natasha Bedingfield

• SONG: Family Portrait sung by Pink

• SONG: Fix You sung by Coldplay

• SONG:  Roxanne sung by Fall Out Boy, The Police, Sting, George Michael, Puff Daddy

COMMON & USEFUL PHRASES

• SONG:   We Are The Champions sung by Queen

SPECIFIC VOCABULARY PRACTICE

• Antonyms of negative/positive words & phrases   SONG:  Mad World

• Confidential Subjects   SONG:  Do You Want To Know a Secret 

• Degrees of Certainty   SONG: Crazy by Gnarls Barkley 

• Degrees of Quantity    SONG: Crazy by Gnarls Barkley 

• Parts of the body & verbs of action (for beginners) SONG:  The Happy Song 

• Prostitution:  SONG:  Roxanne sung by Fall Out Boy, The Police, Sting, George Michael, Puff Daddy

• Synonyms SONG:  Mad World 

• Synonyms SONG: I Saw Her Standing There

• Ways of Laughing SONG:  Crazy by Gnarls Barkley)

SPECIFIC GRAMMAR CONSTRUCTIONS

• SONG: This Love sung by Maroon 5

  • NEVER + Full Infinitive
• SONG:  (Crazy by Gnarls Barkley) Transfer (Constructions)

  • 2a-I remember when + to lose one's mind/life (please scroll to next box)

  • 2b-There is/was something so pleasant about that phase.

  • 2c-There is/was so much space

  • 2d-Even your emotions had an echo

  • 2e-Does that make me crazy?

  • 2f- All I remember + gerund

  • 2g-To be + prepositional phrase

  • 2h-Maybe I'm crazy, (but nevertheless ..........)

  • 2i-I didn't know enough/I just knew too much

  • 2j-Well, I think you're crazy just like me.

  • 2k-to hope ( that) + clause/ to hope + full infinitive

  • 2l- That's my only advice. (My only advice is ........)

  • 2m-Who do you think you are?

  • 2n-Ever since I was little, (+ clause)

  • 2o-It looked like fun/It's no coincidence (that) I've come 

  • 2p-Come on now + phrase (+ function)

FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH

• Formal v Informal English (letter-writing) SONG: Paperback Writer
• Bewailing one's lack of success in love & apportioning blame SONG:  If There's Any Justice In The World
• Empathising, Offering support +  being: supportive, sympathetic, understanding SONG: Fix You sung by Coldplay
• Writing a Review  SONG: Paranoid sung by Black Sabbath
• Giving feedback SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE STUDIES

• Formal v Informal English (letter-writing) SONG: Paperback Writer

• Degrees of Certainty SONG: Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

• Degrees of Quantity  SONG: Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

CREATIVE WRITING

• SONG: I Saw Her Standing There sung by The Beatles
• CHRISTMAS CAROL:  We Three Kings
• SONG: Paranoid sung by Black Sabbath (Writing a review)
• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

SEQUENCING PRACTICE

• CHRISTMAS SONG:  Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) sung by The Darkness
• SONG: Thunder In My Heart (sung by Leo Sayer)
• SONG: Laura (sung by The Scissor Sisters)
• SONG: I Don't Want You Back (sung by Eamon)
• SONG: Spin (sung by Darren Hayes)
• SONG:  Complicated (sung by Avril Lavigne)
• SONG:  Mad World (sung by Gary Jules)
• SONG:  Cool I Am sung by Shakira
• SONG:  Hey Mr. D.J. sung by Shakira
• SONG:  Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex (sung by Beyonce)
• SONG:  Tubthumper sung by Chumbawumba
• SONG:  Dy-na-mi-tee sung by Ms. Dynamite
• SONG:   In The Ghetto sung by Elvis Presley
• SONG:   Business sung by Eminem
• SONG:   Shut Up! sung by Kelly Osbourne
• SONG:   I'm Going Slightly Mad sung by Queen
• SONG:   I Don't Want To Talk About It sung by Rod Stewart
• SONG:   Fix You sung by Coldplay
• SONG:   When The Sun Goes Down sung by Arctic Monkeys
• SONG:   Goodbye My Lover sung by James Blunt
• SONG:   Boys Will Be Boys sung by The Ordinary Boys
• SONG:   Staying Alive sung by The BeeGees
• SONG:   No More I Love Yous sung by Annie Lennox
• SONG:   It's My Life sung by Bon Jovi 
• SONG:   Radio Ga Ga sung by Queen
• SONG:   Single sung by Natasha Bedingfield
• SONG:   With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

SPELLING & PRONUNCIATION 

• SONG:   Shut Up! sung by Kelly Osborne
• SONG:   We Are The Champions sung by Queen
• SONG:   Underneath Your Clothes sung by Shakira
• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles (digraphs, trigraphs, etc.)

STRESS & INTONATION 

• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles
• SONG: She's Leaving Home sung by The Beatles
• SONG: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sung by The Beatles
• SONG: With A Little Help From My Friends sung by The Beatles

SPEAKING

• SONG: This Love sung by Maroon 5 (Exercise 5)
• SONG:  Do You Want To Know A Secret? (milling exercise)
• SONG: Shut Up (dictation)
• SONG:  Roxanne sung by Fall Out Boy, The Police, Sting, George Michael, Puff Daddy (roleplay)
• SONG: