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For these reasons, this apparently simple exercise may not be appropriate for lower levels.) The song “It Ain’t Me” repeats the phrase who’s gonna many times. It is also important to stress that gonna is substituted for going to in future-tense sentences only they can’t say I’m gonna the park now. In informal speech, gonna is often used instead of going to in future-tense sentences. (It is important to tell students that gonna is not used in writing it is the way going to is pronounced. Recommended Videos: audio-only video video with lyrics Pair with the Song: “It Ain’t Me” (Selena Gomez, 2017)

Future with Gonna: Questions Beginning with Who’s gonna.

Advanced learners can watch an interview in which Shawn Mendes talks about struggling with anxiety for the first time. (One line in the song–“laying on the bathroom floor”–is grammatically incorrect it should be, of course, be “lying on the bathroom floor.” However, laying is being used instead of lying more and more often in informal conversation.) The song repeats the phrase “sometimes I feel like giving up.” In the worksheet below, students practice using the expression “feel like” to mean “want to.” Permission is granted to reproduce the worksheet for classroom use. Recommended Video: the official music video Pair with the Song: “In My Blood” (Shawn Mendes, 2018) 473-474. For more activities to pair with this song, please see the Lesson Plan.Ĭomparisons with like.docx comparisons with like.pdf ( It was just like a movie, It was just like a song, etc.) The interactive worksheet below offers practice with this construction. Permission is granted to reproduce for classroom use. If you use the Azar grammar series, you could follow up with the exercises on using like and alike in Basic English Grammar, Fourth Edition, pp. In the song “When We Were Young,” Adele uses the word like to make a comparison 14 times.

Recommended Video: the live performance video Pair with the Song: “When We Were Young” (Adele, 2015) Lyrics are intended for nonprofit educational purposes only.īaby I’m Yours, cloze.docx Baby I’m Yours, cloze.pdf The lyrics cloze exercise below targets the many adverb clauses beginning with the word until in the song. If you use the Azar grammar series, you could use this song to accompany Chapter 17 of Understanding and Using English Grammar. Recommended Video: the official audio-only video Pair with the Song: “Baby, I’m Yours” (Arctic Monkeys, 2006) Adverb Clauses in the Song “Baby, I’m Yours”.True colors, lyrics cloze.docx true colors, lyrics cloze.pdf More teaching ideas are in the Lesson Plan. Lyrics are intended for nonprofit educational purposes only. The lyrics cloze exercise below targets the 10 adjectives in the song. Recommended Videos: the 2019 lyric video the live performance video the audio-only video Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick’s 2016 lyric video a brother-sister duet by Joshua and Erin Evans (My students thought the lyrics in the 2016 Timberlake/Kendrick video were easier to understand than the Lauper version.) Pair with the Song: “True Colors” (Cyndi Lauper, 1986) Verb Tense Review with the Song “Tucson Train” Verbs in the Simple Form in the Song “I Don’t Care” Simple Past Verbs in the Song “This Town” Simple Past Verbs in the Song “The Castle on the Hill”

Simple Past Verbs in the Song “Because You Loved Me” Simple Past Verbs in the Song “And We Sang La Da” Simple Past: Changing Verbs in the Simple Present to the Simple Past Present Progressive Verbs in the Song “Tom’s Diner” Wish + Simple Past: Making a Wish About the Presentįuture with Gonna: Questions Beginning with Who’s gonna…įuture with Gonna: Talking About the Weatherįuture with Will: Contractions I’ll and It’ll Wanna: Informal Spoken English for Want To Third Person Singular: Mistakes in the Song “Memories” by Maroon 5 Gotta: Informal Spoken English for Got To Gerund or Infinitive after begin, start, continue, like, love, hate, can’t stand 4, 2016 at, I list some of the benefits of using songs to teach grammar that I’ve observed in my own classroom.)Īdverb Clauses in the Song “Baby, I’m Yours” Songs can be an effective way to introduce or reinforce a grammar topic. Click on the topics below for companion songs and activities.