Passive Modals - all you need is love

An oldie but a goodie with passive modal structure included, slow and good to sing too!

All you need is love -Beatles

 (Love, love, love) x 3

It's easy

Nothing you can say but you can learn to play the game

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung

There's nothing you can do that can't be done

No one you can save that can't be saved

There's nothing you can make that can't be made

Nothing you can do but you can learn to be you in time

It's easy

Chorus

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

(Love, love, love) x 3

chorus

There's nothing you can know that isn't known

It's easy

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be

Nothing you can see that isn't shown

chorus

All you need is love, all together now
All you need is love, everybody
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

Love is all you need
Love is all you need
Love is all you need

Read more: Beatles - All You Need Is Love Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Another mix - worksheet here

If it hadn't been for love - Adele

With this song I used it to talk about conditionals, I asked the students to tell me how many second conditionals there were and then looked at the mixed conditional. "I wouldn't be wishing I was free
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love"

NB you need to tell students that woulda = would have!

If it hadn’t been for love - Adele

Never would have hitch hiked to Birmingham
If it hadn't been for love
Never woulda caught the train to Louisiana
If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda run through the blindin' rain

If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Without one dollar to my name

Woulda been gone like a wayward wind

If it hadn't been for love

If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda seen the trouble that I'm in

Nobody knows it better than me
I wouldn't be wishing I was free
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Lord have mercy on my soul

At least I know he's lying still

Four cold walls without patrol

Four cold walls against my will

If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda took a mind to track him down

Never woulda gone to that side of town

If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda loaded up a forty four
Put myself behind a jail house door
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Four cold walls against my will

At least I know he's lying still

Lord have mercy on my soul

Four cold walls without patrol

Never woulda hitch hiked to Birmingham
If it hadn't been for love
Never woulda caught the train to Louisian'
If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda loaded up a forty four
Put myself behind a jail house door
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Worksheet here

What we really want - Rosanna Cash

I found this song to introduce the idea of cleft clauses with my higher level class. Having analysed the song we then went on to talk about other ways of emphasis.

What we really want – Rosanne Cash

We tried to make ourselves 1.........................
For something we've never 2.................
We threw the best parts of life 3..........................

On street talk, strangers and drugs
And what we really want is 4................
What we really need is 5................

I wanna call out your 6...................
I wanna hold out my 7...............
A woman silent in the mirror tonight
Wants to talk to your mirror man
And what they really want is love
And what they really need is love

We are ships in the 8...............
The water is deep in 9....................
There is reason and we can't find the light
So we sail off into our 10................
And what we really dream is love
And what we really need is love

What we want is love
What we need is love

We tried to make it feel  11...............
In someone else's world
We sat and looked out my window last 12..........

And knew that things had changed with this 13................
'Cause what I really found was 14..............
What we really need is love

What we really want is love

What we really need is love
What we want is love
What we need is love

pay    done    away    love   name   hand   night  between   right   dreams  

night  girl    love   love

Worksheet here

Brian Hyland * Sealed With A Kiss *

Sealed with a kiss – Brian Hyland

Match the text on the left with the text on the right.

1. Though we've got to	a. all my love
2. For the	b. say good-bye
3. Darling,	c. I promise you this
4. I'll send you	d. a kiss
5. Everyday	e. in a letter
6. Sealed with	f. summer

CHORUS:
Yes it's gonna be a cold, lonely summer
But I'll fill the emptiness
I'll send you all my dreams
Everyday in a letter
Sealed with a kiss

Match the text on the left with the text on the right.

7. I'll see you	g. say good-bye
8. I'll hear	h. with a kiss
9. I'll run to tenderly	i. hold you
10. But, darlin'	j. you won't be there
11. I don't wanna	k. we'll miss
12. For the	l. in the sunlight
13. Knowing the love	m. your voice everywhere
14. Let us	n. make a pledge
15. To meet in	o. summer
16. And seal it	p. September

(CHORUS)

Sealed with a kiss
Sealed with a kiss

Used to introduce the topic of communication - compare old times and today, brainstorm different methods of communication. What are the advantages/disadvantages? What is the best method to..?

..

Worksheet  here