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!
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I think this worksheet is quite a nice and interesting activity for our sudents. Students like listening to songs during the lesson and doing tasks based on them. There are four tasks for students ...
Enjoy working on this worksheet song. Listening activities. Practice the use of some expressions, pronunciation and adjectives. You can also use it just to encourage your students to practice list ...
The worksheet present the song Over the rainbow first sung by Judy GARLAND in a famous movie of the WIZARDS OF OZ. Then this song was sung many times, including Connie Talbot, a small star that is ...
We plan as far ahead as we can as teachers. That's the logical thing to do. But sometimes we have to go off on a tangent when things just don't materialize as intended. This song may remind us of ...
Here is a short biography of Bob Marley with the text of one of his best songs. You can have students first read a short article about the artist and then listen to this song downloaded from a CD ...
It's a worksheet with lyrics to the jazzy song of Alexander Rybak "Foolin'. Some of the words in the worksheet are given homonyms through slash and the students have to guess which word was used i ...
At first I prepared this worksheet for teaching past form of the verbs, regular or irregular. later on, I realized the vocabulary potential of the song, so I make use of the vocabulary as much as ...
My adult students wanted to learn this song so I prepared this worksheet. It is just meant to listen for pleasure so the activities are quite simple: fill in the gaps and then complete a crosswor ...
Song cloze: Luka Discussion on child abuse. Child abuse is one of the most dramatic things that happens in our lives, abusing children has become normal in some countries. Kids are defenseless and ...
This is similar to a song gap-fill but with a twist. It can get quite competitive and it`s a good activity to get Ss energized. - Divide Ss into groups of 4 and give each group the word cut ...
This is a worksheet intended for upper intermediate students. Students are asked to cope with pre- while- and post listening activities. The song of Mia (from Slumdog Millionnaire) is quite contro ...
Song lyrics, you can use both halves of the sheet, cut the sheet in two and give one to each student. You have to download the song. It is a very interesting activity especially for secondary stud ...
This is a useful worksheet to work with simple present as well as some adjectives. it is a very simple and useful song that can be used to discuss topics such as poverty and lack of solidarity in ...
This is useful to practice listening, writing and pronunciation of verbs in the past. Besides, it is a beautiful song that can be used with different levels. You can always combine it with some ba ...
This is a song worksheet for Jason Mraz's song called The Sunshine Song. I like to use this worksheet to practice the possessive pronouns and the possesive adjectives, some listening, and it also ...
It's the worksheet for the activity about the song "Wake up everybody" by Teddy Pendergrass with warm-up and follow-up questions and exercises on the vocabulary. It is used along with "Wake up eve ...
A classical very-well known song ideal to revise vocabulary to describe places. Students listen, fill in the gaps and put the lines in order. Then they answer some questions about the overall mean ...
It's a song I've used to practice listening skills and rw specific vocabulary, I downloaded the song from youtube and made some activities on it. you can start your lesson with a warm up with pict ...
It´s a song that can be used with Pre- or Intermediate students.
Listen to the song. Fill in the gaps with the missing verbs from the lyrics.
Working with verbs by writing sentences. Find ...
Hello, I chose to use 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' to practice past simple and past continuous (the target language of the lesson) despite the fact the song contains present simple and present contin ...
The worksheet presents the song of Stacie Orrico - I promise I will, with completing, joining, ordering and question activities. It's not a very popular song but it was nice to introduce the topic ...
STAGE one – Song 1. Ask Ss if they’ve seen the video for “If I Were a Boy” (They probably have.) If they have mostly, ask them these questions. And if they mostly haven& ...
Students have to listen and find their way to follow the song as they listen to it. It is a good listening practice since they already know this song but they are not familiar with the lyrics. I h ...
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