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A collection of song lyrics to teach English vocabulary and grammar in the ESL classroom

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Grammar & Topics

Beginners' Lyrics (11)
- Basic level (8)
- REALLY basic level (3)
Grammar Constructions (24)
- Conditionals (9)
  - 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 (42)
- Adjectives (8)
  - Adjectives of personality (1)
  - Comparative & Superlative (2)
  - 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 (4)
  - Body movements & actions (1)
  - Phrasal verbs (2)
  - The verb "TO GET" (1)
Tenses (45)
- Multiple Tenses (for revision) (8)
- Past Tenses (22)
  - All narrative tenses (1)
  - Past continuous (2)
  - Past perfect (2)
  - Past simple (9)
    - Irregular verbs (8)
  - Present perfect (9)
    - Present perfect continuous (4)
    - Present perfect simple (6)
      - For & since (1)
  - Used to (1)
- Present Tense (12)
  - Present continuous (2)
  - Present simple (10)
    - 3rd person singular (5)
- The Future (7)
  - Future continuous (1)
  - Future perfect (1)
  - Going to (4)
  - Will (1)
Topics (26)
- Christmas holidays (3)
  - New year's resolutions (1)
- Customs (1)
- Drugs (1)
- Education (1)
- Environment (2)
- Equality (5)
  - Gender Equality (2)
  - LGBT issues (1)
  - Racism (1)
  - Social Equality (1)
- Gender Violence (1)
- Halloween (3)
- Health & Medicine (2)
- Money (1)
- Murphy's Law (1)
- Music (1)
- Science (1)
- Sport (1)
- Summer holidays (1)
- Transport & Travel (1)
- War & Peace (1)

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