Revise multiple tenses, but especially the past simple in your ESL class with this song, Hotel California by Eagles. These song lyrics include 29 different verbs in 6 different tenses: There is a suggestion on how to use this song in your ESL classes below, but for more ideas, click here. Lyrics On a dark desert highway,…
Revise the multiple tenses in your ESL class with this song, We are never getting back together by Taylor Swift. These song lyrics include 26 different verbs in 9 different tenses: used to / would (used to think, used to say, you would hide away) past simple (broke, said, needed, lasted, called it off) past perfect (we…
Revise multiple tenses in your ESL class with this song, Roar by Katy Perry. These song lyrics include 20 examples of verbs in 6 different tenses: used to (used to bite) past simple (sat, agreed, forgot, had, let, stood, fell, held, got up, earned, went) present simple (hear, get, see, am) going to (going to shake, going to…
Practise verb tenses in your ESL class with this song, My Way by Frank Sinatra. The lyrics of this song contain 27 verbs in 4 tenses: There is a suggestion on how to use this song in your ESL classes below, but for more ideas, click here. Lyrics And now, the end is near; And…
Practise the present continuous in your ESL class with this song, Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega. The lyrics of this song include the following 14 examples of the present continuous: I am sitting, I am waiting, He is looking, She is shaking, they are kissing, I’m pretending, I’m turning, I’m feeling, I’m trying, she’s hitching up…
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 family members and the third person singular in your ESL class with this song, Our House by Madness. The members of the family that appear in these song lyrics are: father, mother, kids, sister, brother & mum. The verbs in the third person singular which appear in these lyrics are: wears, needs, has, is,…