Music and Second Language Learning

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For Grammar

Simple Past

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

Particles

-ing

  • Black-Eyed Peas -- "Shut up"

Prepositions

Themes

Equal Rights

  • O'Connor, Sinead -- "War" a capella (Saturday Night Live)
  • Black Eyed Peas + Sting -- "Union"

Friendship

  • King, Carole -- "You've got a friend" | seasons, have to, got to, have got, wherever. from Tapestry u2b. James Taylor solo version u2b

Jealousy

Hard Times

  • Blacc, Aloe -- "I Need a Dollar" [1]| modals, simple vocab

Holocaust / Shoah

  • "Dance Me to the End of Love" Leonard Cohen

Love

  • From The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill


Middle Passage / Slavery

Cheer up

  • Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush -- "Don't Give up"
  • John Lennon -- "Imagine"
  • Queen -- "Spread Your Wings" (fly away)