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==Apology==
 
*Elton John & Blue,  "Sorry seems to be the hardest word", [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/6258/blue_elton_john/sorry_seems_to_be_the_hardest_word lyrics training]
 
  
==Chance==
 
*Sting, "The Shape of My Heart", (with lyrics @ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1xjq-QUOiM u2b] )
 
  
==Child Abuse==
 
*Vega, Suzanne, "Luka", [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/12029/suzanne_vega/luka Lyrics Training]
 
  
==Equal Rights==
 
*O'Connor, Sinead -- "War" ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYw8JR1N90o a capella]'' (Saturday Night Live)
 
*Black Eyed Peas + Sting -- "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_-Ln7eWpw Union]"
 
  
==Friendship==
 
*King, Carole -- "You've got a friend" | seasons, have to, got to, have got, wherever.  from Tapestry [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHlcW_lKPl4 u2b].  James Taylor solo version [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15f20_james-taylor-you-ve-got-a-friend_music#rel-page-3 u2b ]
 
**[http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/1420/carol_king_celine_dion_gloria_estefan_shania_twain/youve_got_a_friend lyrics training]
 
  
==Parenting==
 
*Stevens, Cat -- "Father and Son" at [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/257/cat_stevens/father_and_son Lyrics Training]
 
  
==Jealousy==
 
*Gabriel, Peter -- "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9riZYUpTw Shock the Monkey]"
 
*Lennon, John -- "Jealous Guy" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/9308/john_lennon/jealous_guy Lyrics Training]
 
  
==Hard Times==
 
*Blacc, Aloe -- "I Need a Dollar" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6oYX1D-0w] | modals, simple vocab
 
  
==Holocaust / Shoah==
 
*"Dance Me to the End of Love" Leonard Cohen
 
  
==Loss==
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*"Let My People Go", traditional. (cf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_Jubilee_Singers Jubilee Singers], 1872)  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLcELU1brA Paul Robeson 193?], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5EfwBWgg0 Louis Armstrong 1958], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpeu89iyFF8 Russian remix]
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*"Jonah and the Whale", traditional, Louis Armstrong, <i>Louis and the Good Book</i>, 1958.  [http://www.creoliste.fr/blog/prophets-and-such/ blog]
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*Blacc, Aloe -- "I Need a Dollar" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6oYX1D-0w] | modals, simple vocab
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*Black Eyed Peas, ''Shut Up'', [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/5045/black_eyed_peas/shut_up Lyrics Training]
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*Black Eyed Peas + Sting -- "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_-Ln7eWpw Union]"
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*Clapton, Eric "Tears in Heaven" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/4862/eric_clapton/tears_in_heaven lyrics training]
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*Cohen, Leonard [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/3763/leonard_cohen/hallelujah Hallelujah]
 
*Cohen, Leonard, [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/2202/leonard_cohen]
 
*Cohen, Leonard, [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/2202/leonard_cohen]
 
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*Gabriel, Peter -- "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9riZYUpTw Shock the Monkey]"
==Love==
 
 
*Lauryn Hill: [http://lyricskeeper.fr/fr/lauryn-hill/i-used-to-love-him.html I used to love him]
 
*Lauryn Hill: [http://lyricskeeper.fr/fr/lauryn-hill/i-used-to-love-him.html I used to love him]
 
*Lauryn Hill (to her firstborn): [http://lyricskeeper.fr/fr/lauryn-hill/to-zion.html]
 
*Lauryn Hill (to her firstborn): [http://lyricskeeper.fr/fr/lauryn-hill/to-zion.html]
 
*Franki Valli / Lauryn Hill: [http://lyricskeeper.fr/fr/lauryn-hill/cant-take-my-eyes-of-you.html]
 
*Franki Valli / Lauryn Hill: [http://lyricskeeper.fr/fr/lauryn-hill/cant-take-my-eyes-of-you.html]
*Clapton, Eric "Tears in Heaven" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/4862/eric_clapton/tears_in_heaven lyrics training]
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*Elton John & Blue, "Sorry seems to be the hardest word", [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/6258/blue_elton_john/sorry_seems_to_be_the_hardest_word lyrics training]
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*King, Carole -- "You've got a friend", from {i]Tapestry[/i] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHlcW_lKPl4 u2b].
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*Lennon, John -- "Imagine" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/6519/john_lennon/imagine Lyrics Training]
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*Lennon, John -- "Jealous Guy" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/9308/john_lennon/jealous_guy Lyrics Training]
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*Marley, Bob -- "Three Little Birds" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/3044/bob_marley/three_little_birds lyrics training]
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*O'Connor, Sinead -- "War" ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYw8JR1N90o a capella]'' (Saturday Night Live)
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*Queen -- "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrrrWlmavPQ Spread Your Wings]" (fly away)
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*Stevens, Cat -- "Father and Son" at [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/257/cat_stevens/father_and_son Lyrics Training]
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*Vega, Suzanne, "Luka", [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/12029/suzanne_vega/luka Lyrics Training]
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==Love Gone Wrong==
 
*Black Eyed Peas, ''Shut Up'', [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/5045/black_eyed_peas/shut_up Lyrics Training]
 
  
  
==Middle Passage / Slavery==
 
*"Jonah and the Whale", traditional, Louis Armstrong, <i>Louis and the Good Book</i>, 1958.  [http://www.creoliste.fr/blog/prophets-and-such/ blog]
 
*"Sometimes, I Feel like a Motherless Child", traditional.
 
*"Let My People Go", traditional. (cf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_Jubilee_Singers Jubilee Singers], 1872)  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLcELU1brA Paul Robeson 193?], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5EfwBWgg0 Louis Armstrong 1958], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpeu89iyFF8 Russian remix]
 
  
==Cheer up==
 
*Cohen, Leonard [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/3763/leonard_cohen/hallelujah Hallelujah]
 
*Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush -- "Don't Give up"
 
*John Lennon -- "Imagine" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/6519/john_lennon/imagine Lyrics Training]
 
*Bob Marley -- "Three Little Birds" [http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/3044/bob_marley/three_little_birds lyrics training]
 
*Queen -- "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrrrWlmavPQ Spread Your Wings]" (fly away)
 
  
 
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Revision as of 21:11, 19 February 2013

Introduction

Listening to music is a great way to "fix" grammatical structures. On this page, there are many links to songs and their lyrics. These links lead various places. On my blog, there are a few songs with gap-fill lyric exercises §. These are songs that I have tested on classes at the 5e / 4e level. Similarly, but in real time, lyrics training offers a game that allows you to listen to a video while filling in words missing from the lyrics. Other links on this page may lead to youtube or daily motion.

Should you want to look for the lyrics of a song, any search engine will accomplish the task... lyrics + "song title"




To return to the notion of "fixing" structures (which does not mean "repairing" them, but making them part of your everyday speech), let's take some examples from "Yesterday" by the Beatles:

  • All [my troubles] seemed [so far away]


replace what is in brackets with other expressions (for the first you can substitute any noun phrase, for the second any predicate (substantive: infinitival, substantive // predicate adjective / locative... etc. :

  • All [the deadlines] seemed so far away.
  • All [our client] seemed so [satisfied].
  • All [the accounting] seemed [to be in order].
  • All [our IT people] seemed [to want to change the system].


Or:

  • There's [a shadow] [[hanging] over [me]].


which could give:

  • There's [a deadline] hanging over [the project].
  • There's [an intruder] getting into [our internal network]. (getting into = accessing)
  • There's [someone] [trying to get in.] (get in = enter, access)</p>

Blogposts

Artists

at Lyrics Training:

Songs

Present Perfect

Simple Past

  • Beatles -- "Yesterday" (used to) / nostalgic past (Cf. Proust) (lyrics training)
  • Lauryn Hill -- "I Used to Love Him"

Particles

-ing

Prepositions

Themes

  • "Jonah and the Whale", traditional, Louis Armstrong, Louis and the Good Book, 1958. blog