Musical English Lessons International, England

Established since 1993

This free website has been created especially for you by Bibi Baxter (International Author, Teacher & ESL/EFL Materials Specialist)  <>()<> This website contains 'something' for everyone <>()<> Established since 1993, Musical English Lessons International are the only world-wide suppliers of special ESL/EFL study ideas by Bibi Baxter (formerly Bibi Boarder)

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Index  of  Songs & Pedagogic Ideas by Bibi Baxter for Music Fans, Teachers & Students of English 

THE CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE

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• Songs (listed alphabetically by singer)

  • Aqua (scroll to next box)

  • Alan Austin

  • Arctic Monkeys

  • Avril Lavigne

  • Beyonce

  • Busted

  • Candi Paton

  • Cher

  • Chumbawumba

  • Coldplay

  • Darren Hayes

  • Eamon

  • Elvis Presley

  • Eminem

  • Fall Out Boy

  • Frank Sinatra

  • Gary Jules

  • George Michael

  • Gloria Gaynor

  • Good  Charlotte

  • John Lennon

  • John Michael Mortimer

  • Kelly Osbourne

  • Lemar

  • Manic Street Preachers

  • Maroon 5

  • Ms Dynamite

  • Nancy Sinatra

  • Natasha Bedingfield

  • Pink

  • Pink Floyd

  • Puff Daddy

  • Queen

  • Robbie Williams

  • Rod Stewart

  • Shakira

  • Sting

  • The Beatles  + John Lennon

  • The Black-eyed Peas

  • The Darkness

  • The Police

  • The Scissor Sisters

  • The Verve

• Christmas Songs

• Traditional Songs To Use

• Articles, Reviews, Essays, etc. about music

• Instructions:  Create Your Own Worksheets

AQUA

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Barbie Girl  to practise Cloze

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• When The Sun Goes Down  to practise Sequencing

AVRIL LAVIGNE

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• Sk8er Boy to practise Nouns
• Mobile to practise Prepositions & Particles
• Things I'll Never Say to practise Tenses
• Complicated to practise Sequencing

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BEYONCE

• Sweet Dreams My LA Ex  to practise Sequencing, Nouns 

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• Crashed The Wedding to practise 
  • Prepositions & Particles
  • Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive (with/without TO)
  • Pronouns & Articles (Possessive & Demonstrative)

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• Quiz (Titles)
• Album Lists
• Comprehensive ESL/EFL worksheets & ideas for:
  • And I Love Her to describe a current boyfriend/girlfriend or an old flame.
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret to practise reported speech, confiding & betraying
  • I Saw Her Standing There to practise:  questions, vocabulary, creative writing
  • Paperback Writer to practise:  Letter-writing, dictation & Formal v Informal English
  • Things we said today to practise:  listening for words, true/false, reported speech
  • I'm So Tired to practise: identifying & categorising pronouns & adjectives
  • Think For Yourself to practise: identifying & categorising pronouns & adjectives

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JOHN LENNON

• Imagine: Create your own ESL/EFL worksheets. Help & advice given.

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for

• Young Hearts Run Free to practise: articles, discussion &/or composition about relationshiips

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• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) to practise: Simple Past, Nouns

CHUMBAWUMBA 

• Tubthumper to practise Simple Present, Sequencing

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COLDPLAY 

• Fix You to practise Simple Present, Sequencing, Comprehension

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Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheet for 

• Spin to practise sequencing.  This song can be used to introduce a range of subjects for discussion (from politics to obesity)

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•  I Don't Want You Back to practise sequencing and dialogue. This song can be used to introduce a range of subjects for discussion (from politics to obesity)

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ELVIS PRESLEY

• In The Ghetto to practise: nouns, adjectives, tenses, verbs, sequencing

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EMINEM:  

• Business to practise: sequencing

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• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

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• My Way to practise: nouns, adjectives, tenses, verbs, sequencing, spellings, etc.
• Plus further practice

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GARY JULES

• Mad World to practice:  sequencing, synonyms, antonyms

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GEORGE MICHAEL

• The Strangest Thing to practise: Prepositions, Cloze
• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

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• I Will Survive to practise: Tenses, Gerunds, Prepositions & Particles

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• The Anthem to practise Articles, Prepositions & Particles

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• I Swear to practise Adjectives & Adverbs

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•   SHUT UP to practise: Listening, Sequencing, Pronunciation, Spellings

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• If There's Any Justice to practise:  WOULD/SHOULD & Mixed Tenses

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• A Design For Life to practise: sequencing. This song can be used to introduce the subjects of Depression, Low self-esteem, Self-harming, Sex v Love.  Further practice is in the form of internet research.

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Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• This Love to practise: Listening, Tenses, Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive, Prepositions & Particles, Articles, NEVER + full infinitive.

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MS..DYNAMITE 

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets for 

• Dy-na-mi-tee to practise Sequencing

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• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) to practise: Simple Past, Nouns

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• These Words to practise:  Nouns (Proper, Compound, Common), Verb Forms (Gerund v Past Participle v Infinitive with/without TO), Fun Comprehension, Discussion or Composition

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• Family Portrait to practise:Mixed Tenses, Prepositions & Particles, Comprehension, Discussion or Composition

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• Learning To Fly to practise Prepositions

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• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

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• We Are The Champions to practise:  Spelling & Pronunciation, Present Perfect, Prepositions & Particles, Common Phrases, Making Suitable Responses
• The Show Must Go On for intermediate to advanced levels to practise Prepositions & Particles
• I'm Going Slightly Mad  for intermediate to advanced levels to practise Cloze, Sequencing, Idioms

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• My Way to practise: nouns, adjectives, tenses, verbs, sequencing, spellings, etc.
• Plus further practice

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• I Don't Want To Talk About It  to practise Sequencing, First Conditional

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SHAKIRA

• Whenever, Wherever  to practise: Gerund v Infinitive v Past Participle0
• Underneath your clothes  to practise: Spelling & Pronunciation
• Cool I am to practise: Sequencing
• Hey Mr. DJ  to practise: Sequencing)

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• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

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• Shut Up to practise:  Cloze & Dictation

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• Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) to practise:  Sequencing

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• Roxanne to practise: Nouns, Tenses, Comprehension & to discuss Prostitution

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• Laura to practice Sequencing & Bingo

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• The Drugs Don't Work to practice Sequencing & Discussion/Composition

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TRADITIONAL SONGS TO USE 

Lyrics & ESL/EFL Worksheets 

• The Blacksmith (free sample) A traditional English song  (Practise: ' gerund v infinitive v past participle', paraphrasing).  Music for 'The Lady In White' and more EFL/ESL worksheets can be purchased from this website.  

• There Were Ten In The Bed
• Ten Green Bottles
• One Man Went To Mow A Meadow
• Old MacDonald's Farm

CHANTS FOR SUPPORTERS AT SCHOOL SPORTS EVENTS 

• For a swimming Gala
• For any competitive event

NURSERY RHYMES FOR ESL TODDLERS

• Tommy Thumb to learn finger & thumb vocabulary (+ keyboard notes)

• Wiggly Woo

• Old King Cole

• The Happy Song

CHRISTMAS SONGS

(ESL/EFL Practice)

• Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) sung by The Darkness
• Christmas Carols to present the story of the Nativity. (Away In A Manger, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks At Night, We Three Kings)
• Fun Christmas Songs:
  • Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Jingle Bells
  • We Wish You A Merry Christmas
  • All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
  • I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus

• Click here for full Christmas Index

ARTICLES, REVIEWS & ESSAYS ABOUT MUSIC 

• Music + Violent Images + Teenagers by Bibi Boarder

• Teen Violence & Music:  The Real Connection by Marcus Strife (age 16)

• Readers' Feedback Page

• Punk or Rock? The lyrics of some of Avril Lavigne's songs and a link to an article by Jessica Zietz

CREATE YOUR OWN WORKSHEETS

• Create your own ESL worksheets for songs (Instructions) 

• Create your own ESL worksheets for And I Love Her, sung by The Beatles'

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