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Gender Violence

Suzanne Vega – My name is Luka

To practise: Gender Violence, Present simple, Present Tense
Band/singer: Suzanne Vega

Practice the present simple in your ESL class with this song, My Name is Luka by Suzanne Vega, a song about domestic violence.  This song contains over a dozen different examples of the present simple, as well as a few examples of the present perfect, past simple, will and would. There is a suggestion on…

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    • REALLY basic level (3)
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      • 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 (45)
    • Adjectives (10)
      • 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 (5)
      • Body movements & actions (1)
      • Phrasal verbs (2)
      • The verb "TO BE" (present) (1)
      • The verb "TO GET" (1)
  • Tenses (47)
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      • 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)
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      • Present continuous (3)
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        • 3rd person singular (5)
    • The Future (7)
      • Future continuous (1)
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      • Going to (4)
      • Will (1)
  • Topics (27)
    • Christmas holidays (4)
      • New year's resolutions (1)
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      • Gender Equality (2)
      • LGBT issues (1)
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    • Sport (1)
    • Summer holidays (1)
    • Transport & Travel (1)
    • War & Peace (1)

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