Superlatives - I'm the coolest - Alice Cooper

I was looking for a song with superlatives in and found this one. The worksheet has extra words which the students need to remove. The song is quite slow so hopefully not too many problems for them.

Eat it - Food language

I found this song and used it to introduce/review some food language with a low intermediate group.

Why do fools - question order

I adapted this song for my elementary learners to review word order in questions - not too many difficult words




Worksheet

Day trip to Bangor - trips and journeys and English history

I used this song to introduce the idea of day trips and excursions as compared to holidays



Worksheet here



Some colloquial language 

a paddler boat - is often known as a pedalo these days - a boat with paddles that you powerlike a bicycle
a ferris wheel - a large vertical wheel on which people travel for pleasure - similar but not the same as the London Eye
the diddley bom tarara - nonsense words which make the sound of an old brass band
cider -  an alcoholic drink made of apples - similar but not the same as beer
mill - here refers to the cloth mills which were very common in the north of England in the early 1900's

Wonderful world - present simple

I rehashed this one for some low level students who said that English songs were to difficult for them to understand





Link to work sheet here

Another 2nd Conditional - If I were a carpenter

Found this while I was listening with my daughter, there are various versions on the internet but this seems to be the clearest.

A few songs for past modals

Here are a few songs that I found to highlight / introduce the past modals. Hopefully worksheets to follow when i have time.