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Music can be a great way to connect with your students. Even students who aren’t fluent in English often know the words of popular songs phonetically, which makes these songs ideal resources for teaching your students certain forms of grammar, as well as vocabulary. Many students are happy to work with the unusual phrasing of song lyrics, because they’re learning new meanings for a piece of music that already has meaning in their lives.

You might never have noticed it before, but many songs’ lyrics involve just one single tense - which means that as soon as you find a song that contains the tense you want to teach, you’ve got the makings of an exercise that your students will love. They’ll get to brag to their non-English-speaking friends that they know exactly what the song’s lyrics say, so they’ll be extra-motivated to stick with you throughout the activity to make sure they learn those meanings correctly. But where should you start your search for the right song? Right here on BusyTeacher.org, of course! Our 1,788 song worksheets provide you with a wealth of resources for teaching tenses, sentence structure, vocabulary, and all kinds of other aspects of English - all with songs that your students already know and love. We’ve even taken the time to organize our library of song worksheets by verb tense, or by the type of activity that each worksheet helps you organize.

While some of our 1,788 worksheets simply focus on a certain feature of grammar that’s used a lot in a given song, others encourage more advanced students to really listen for the song’s meaning, and speak or write about their own interpretations of its lyrics. Some of our worksheets focus on idioms used in certain songs, or on the phonetics and pronunciation different singers use. Whether you want to teach the past simple tense with “Call Me Maybe” or practice vocabulary with Coldplay, BusyTeacher.org’s library has a worksheet for you.

Not only are these worksheets built around internationally popular songs that’ll be familiar to your students - they’re also designed by real ESL teachers around the world, who’ve had success using them in their classrooms. This means that whenever you download a worksheet from BusyTeacher.org, you can be sure that it’s already been tested and proven useful by a teacher just like you.

In fact, our whole community depends on worksheet contributions from teachers like you - so if you’ve got a worksheet that you think others would like, click the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page, and send it our way. It might show up in an ESL classroom halfway around the world!

All of our 1,788 song worksheets are completely free to download, print, use, and share - so grab any that look like they might be handy. Our helpful “quick view” feature lets you get a glimpse of each worksheet as a small thumbnail, so you can save time by only clicking those that look like what you need. So take a look at the worksheets on this page, print off any that catch your eye, and see how they play in your classroom. Each one ought to be a hit!

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Listen vs. Hear

Listen vs. Hear

Elsa Hedrick
, , , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This quick practice worksheet is for learning the difference between listening and hearing. It is geared towards ESL emerging English speakers levels A2-C1. It includes a gap-fill activi ...
1 Views 20,360 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Open letter to NYC

Open letter to NYC

Laurent
, ESL Songs For Teaching English
  Suitable for 9th-grade students, this worksheet consists of listening, comprehension, reading and completing exercises, including filling in the gaps. Based on a song, students can also ...
1 Views 10,713 Int
Christmas is All Around Us: Billy Mack

Christmas is All Around Us: Billy Mack

, ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This Christmas song by Billy Mack from the romantic film "Love Actually" forms the basis of this worksheet aimed at comprehension and listening skills. It provides an excellent warm-up f ...
1 Views 11,925 ElemPre-Int
Listening Activities: Working with Songs

Listening Activities: Working with Songs

DIANA CASTRO
ESL Songs For Teaching English,
  This worksheet can be used as a warm-up activity, after a recess, or just because you want to have fun in class. It contains activities to complete the lyrics of the song 'Nothing Breaks ...
1 Views 26,806 Adv
Once in a while song worksheet

Once in a while song worksheet

Samuel Ekundayo Taiwo
» ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This song worksheet can be used for any student, from beginner to advanced. It includes fill-in-the gap exercises and putting the song lines in order. It will also help students to evalu ...
1 Views 14,678 BegElemPre-IntIntAdv
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Song Worksheet: My Favorite Shirt (vocabulary: clothes)

Song Worksheet: My Favorite Shirt (vocabulary: clothes)

Alan Smith Robertson
, , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  “My Favorite Shirt” is a song written for teachers to use in the ESL classroom to practice CLOTHES. The lyrics include TWENTY (20) items of clothing: underpants, shorts, jean ...
1 Views 15,535 Pre-IntInt
Something just like this song worksheet

Something just like this song worksheet

Kseniya
, ESL Songs For Teaching English
  In this Pre-intermediate song worksheet, students work with the song "Something just like this" by the Chainsmokers where they think back on and consider some superheroes and their power ...
1 Views 17,114 ElemPre-Int
Adore You by Harry Styles

Adore You by Harry Styles

BusyTeacher Contributor
» ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This music worksheet will help improve students' listening skills. The teacher can explain the story both before and after the song is listened to. It also introduces a fantasy, which ca ...
1 Views 23,632 Pre-IntInt
Best of You – Foo Fighters Song Worksheet

Best of You – Foo Fighters Song Worksheet

Silvia C.
» ESL Songs For Teaching English
  Students listen to the song Best of you by Foo Fighters on YouTube and complete the fill-in-the gaps exercises. This song worksheet can also be used as an alternative comprehension activ ...
1 Views 17,046 IntAdv
SONG – Landslide by Fleetwood Mac covered by The Chicks

SONG – Landslide by Fleetwood Mac covered by The Chicks

Igor de Oliveira Poty
, , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This worksheet is based on the song Landslide from Fleetwood Mac. The lyrics match The Chicks version better as they are easier to understand. Students listen to and watch the video and ...
1 Views 13,350 Pre-IntIntAdv
Swan Song by Dua Lipa

Swan Song by Dua Lipa

BusyTeacher Contributor
, , ESL Songs For Teaching English,
  Students listen to the video of Swan Song by Dua Lipa, work on their listening skills and examine the importance of speaking their minds. This worksheet includes a variety of activities ...
1 Views 20,545 ElemPre-Int
Old Song for School Subjects

Old Song for School Subjects

blanca aragón
» ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This song (What a) Wonderful World by Sam Cooke is a fun way to link, in this case, school subjects with real life. It can also be used as a warming-up activity. Students listen to the s ...
1 Views 13,813 Beg
Chumbawumba – Timebomb – Song gap-fill Exercise

Chumbawumba – Timebomb – Song gap-fill Exercise

Richard Hayward
, , , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This song worksheet on Chumbawumba – Timebomb, is a gap-fill exercise suitable for Intermediate, Upper Intermediate and Advanced Levels. There is a Lesson Plan  ...
1 Views 9,159 IntAdv
Thunder By Imagine Dragons Fill In The Blank Worksheet

Thunder By Imagine Dragons Fill In The Blank Worksheet

Tammy Cohen Dadon
, , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This listening comprehension activity is a fill-in-the-blank assignment. Students listen to and watch the video then answer the questions using the words from the word bank. It includes ...
1 Views 28,516 IntAdvExam

"Something Stupid" Song Worksheet

Phil Raymond
, , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This is a listening activity for elementary learners based on a section of the New English File Elementary book, page 19. This was made for those who perhaps have never tried listening t ...
1 Views 14,562 Elem
Song Worksheet – Always remember us this way – Lady Gaga

Song Worksheet – Always remember us this way – Lady Gaga

Claudia Fiuza
, , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  There are four different exercises on this song worksheet to practice parts of speech. They include opposites, verb tenses (simple present, simple past, and simple future), and translati ...
1 Views 13,504 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet Melanie Martinez – Mad Hatter

Song Worksheet Melanie Martinez – Mad Hatter

Katherine
, , , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This song "Mad Hatter" by Melanie Martinez is from Tim Burton's movie Alice in Wonderland. Students watch and listen to the video on YouTube. This task is complicated. Before handing out ...
1 Views 12,186 IntAdv
Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Henriqueta
, , , ESL Songs For Teaching English
    The subject of this worksheet is Looking for adventure | Searching for happiness. It helps practice listening skills. Students listen to the song and discuss the meaning of "bein ...
1 Views 13,250 Pre-IntInt
Song worksheet: Someone You Loved (L. Capaldi)

Song worksheet: Someone You Loved (L. Capaldi)

, , ESL Songs For Teaching English,
  Students listen to the lyrics of Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi through the given link and fill in the verbs in the Present Simple and Present Continuous tenses, including the verb t ...
1 Views 17,200 ElemPre-IntInt
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Song Worksheet: "A Broken Heart" – Adverbs of Frequency

Alan Smith Robertson
, ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This original song for the ESL classroom contains eleven adverbs of frequency (always, constantly, usually, often, sometimes, occasionally, once in a while, now and then, rarely, hardly ...
1 Views 14,267 Pre-IntInt
Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Song worksheet: On Top of the World

Henriqueta
, , , ESL Songs For Teaching English
  This worksheet for Pre-/Intermediate levels can be used to practise listening skills, comprehension and to discuss the meaning of "being on top of the world". It can be used as a warm-up ...
1 Views 10,288 Pre-IntInt
Power Point Song – My Girl By Temptations

Power Point Song – My Girl By Temptations

, , ESL Songs For Teaching English,
  Using songs is an effective way to teach student English. The short worksheet is to help students develop listening comprehension, vocabulary and grammar rules. It contains three defined ...
1 Views 10,003 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Spirit Carries On: Dream Theater

The Spirit Carries On: Dream Theater

Nway@Nymeria
» ESL Songs For Teaching English
  The lyrics from this song, The Spirit Carries On, from Dream Theater provide an opportunity for class discussion. Students listen to the video and explore the meaning of the words, then ...
1 Views 4,440 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song worksheet: Someone You Loved

Song worksheet: Someone You Loved

  After watching and listening to the video of Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi, students then complete the lyrics by filling in the blanks. This sheet covers the verbs in the Present Si ...
1 Views 12,369 BegElemPre-Int
A Whole New World – Verbs, Adjectives & Nouns

A Whole New World – Verbs, Adjectives & Nouns

, , , ESL Songs For Teaching English
    Teaching students by using songs presents a variety of methods to practice English from listening comprehension to grammar rules. In this song A Whole New World By Peabo Bryson a ...
1 Views 18,085 Pre-IntIntAdv

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