SONGS-CLASSIFICATION

Songs classified by grammar points and different skills.

A) GRAMMAR POINTS / SKILLS

1.Pronunciation exercises

-Stand by me (Ben E. King)

-Wonderful world (Sam Cooke)

2. Comprehension (song + related text)

-Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

-Maria (Blondie)

-Hotel California (Eagles)

-Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin)

-The Piano Man (Billy Joel) -a text in itself

-Waterloo (Abba)

3. Passive Voice

-Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield)

4. Reported Speech

-Ain´t No Mountain High Enough (Dionne Warwick &Marvin Gaye).

5. Indefinite Pronouns

-It´s Not Unusual (Tom Jones)

6. You´d better...

-Stop (Sam Brown)

7. Question Tags

-You´re The First, The Last, My Everything (Barry White)

8. Relative Pronouns

-That Don´t Impress Me Much (Shania Twain)

9. Adjectives / adverbs

9.1.Adjectives/adverbs (-ly):

-The Logical Song (Supertramp)

-Through the Long Night (Billy Joel)

9.2.Verbs/nouns/adjectives/adverbs with the same root:

-Simply Irresistible (Robert Palmer)

9.3. Adjectives of personality:

-You Gotta Be (Des´ree)

B) VERB TENSES

1.Present Simple / Present Continuous

Present Simple

-Hooked On A Feeling (Blue Swede)

-Somethin´ Stupid (Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman)

Present Continuous

-It´s Raining Men (Weather Girls)

-My Favourite Game (The Cardigans)

-Eye In the Sky (The Alan Parsons Project)

Present Simple/Present Continuous

-Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)

-Only When I Sleep (The Corrs)

-She Works Hard For The Money (Donna Summer)

2. Past Simple / Past Continuous

-Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack)

3. Future

Will future

-We Will Rock You (Queen)

-Surfin´ USA (The Beach Boys)

-Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)

-Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)

4. Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous

Present Perfect

-We Are The Champions (Queen)

Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous

-Searchin´ My Soul (Vonda Shepard)

5. 2^nd Conditionals

-More Than Words (Extreme)

-Surfin´ USA (The Beach Boys)

6. Modal verbs

-Kiss (Tom Jones)

-I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)

-There Must Be An Angel (Eurythmics)

7. Tense Revision

-Summer Of ´69 (Bryan Adams)

-Girl, You´ll Be a Woman Soon. (Urge Overkill)

C) VOCABULARY

1. Parts Of the Body

-Love Is All Around (WetWet Wet)

2. Clothes

-You Can Leave Your Hat On (Joe Cocker)

3. T/F exercises

-Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? (Bryan Adams)

D) SEASONS OF THE YEAR

1. March 8^th:

-Miss Celie´s Blues (from the film “The Colour Purple”)

2.Christmas:

-Oh Holy Night

-Silent Night

-Oh Come All Ye Faithful

-White Christmas

-Last Christmas (George Michael)

3. Halloween:

-Hotel California (Eagles) (look in “song+text”)

-Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield) (look in Passive Voice)

4. Valentine

E) MOVIES

-Lyrics from Grease

-Girl, You´ll Be A Woman Soon –Pulp Fiction (look in “Tense revision”)

-Miss Celie´s Blues –The Colour Purple (look in “March 8^th”)

-You Can Leave Your Hat On –9 ½ Weeks (look in “clothes”)

-Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? –Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves (look in vocabulary T/F)