Monday, 7 March 2016

Music in Class



There're so many benefits to using songs for learning English, such as developing listening comprehension, enriching vocabulary, drilling grammar (especially tenses), practising pronunciation, etc.
* Wanna teach/learn Present Simple? -  "She Loves You" by the Beatles; "Believe" by E. John;
* Past Simple? - "Yesterday" or "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles;
* Present Perfect Continuous? - "Hello" by Adele;
* Present Perfect? - "Show Must Go On" by the Queen;
* Shapes and forms? - "Shape Of My Heart" by Sting;
* Conditionals? - "Imagine" by John Lennon;
* Daily Routine vocab? - "Our House" by Madness;
* Religion Vocab? -  "Take Me To Church" by Hozier;
* Contractions? - "Feel" by Robby Williams;
* Troubles with Kids? -  lots of Nursery Rhymes.

And more...... as there're so many songs by other bands (not only of British origin) that can be used in teaching & learning: e.g.: "Tom's Dinner" by Susanne Vega or "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden which are fantastic for Present Continuous.
Here's a link to some of them:
http://www.tefltunes.com/grammarsongs.aspx

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