A selection of English ESL music lyrics printables

Listen to the song "I'm not the only one" by Sam Smith. Students fill in the missing lyrics which can be found in the word bank at the bottom of the page. It's a simple, yet fun activity.

Missing Lyrics

Related to the thematic area of ‘Natural Disasters’. This being 'Tsunamis'. In order to  personalise the context relative to students' own. Utilising  modern music that incorporates language related to various forms of disaster. Simple listening task, preceded by prediction / guessing likely choice from context / rhyme etc. Use YouTube video as source of audio and song / lyrics video as source for students to self-check their answers. Get students to 'rate' their interest in the song 1-10 on the  'Richter Scale' which caused this 'Tsunami'.

Tsunami -SONG

An activity to help students learn and practise gerunds and infinitives following certain verbs and listening skills.



The verbs featured in the video are:

Followed by gerunds:

Avoid | Consider | Discuss | Enjoy | Finish



Followed by infinitives:

Agree | Beg | Decide | Expect | Fail



Learners complete the worksheet by listening to the songs and filling in the gaps/checking their answers.



10 songs are featured in the worksheet with at least one gerund / infinitive in each song. The list of songs can be found in the video description.



The activity can be made more difficult for advanced learners by adding more gaps to the song lyrics.



The music’s audio along with the answers can be found here: https://youtu.be/29A7P5FjVJQ



Learners self correct their worksheets by watching the video: https://youtu.be/29A7P5FjVJQ

Gerunds and Infinitives (in songs) worksheet

Music lyrics to fill in the blanks using the words from the box! Sts can either look for them in the box or just try to understand and complete the spaces. Excellent exercise to improve listening skills! Enjoy!

OMI Cheerleader

This worksheet has lyrics to "Row, row, row your boat..." and "Drive, drive, drive your car...", followed by a space for children to write their own verse. The "drive, drive, drive your car..." verse comes from Sesame Street and is available on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY9O4M8DS7c). 

Row Your Boat; Drive Your Car

A well known song for Valentine´s Day! I chose the original version by Connie Francis, because her pronunciation seems easier to understand. This is an easy worksheet, the students have to choose the right word, fill the gaps with several words and pronouns, put the words in order and match the lines. I included a link where the sound is clean and the video has the (correct) lyrics on screen. I hope you like it!!

Song: Stupid Cupid

Lyrics to complete using present simple or present continuous tens. Ride - twenty one pilots. There is an activity to translate the 5 verbs and other activity about kind of music. Listening exercise. Oral and written comprehension. 

Ride - twenty one pilots

Used with Official Video Featuring Juicy J

Katy Perry Dark Horse Lyrics Cloze Worksheet

This new song, which has gone viral on the Internet already, is a perfect way to practice some regular and irregular verbs with the students. Google the lyrics if you need the answers for the gaps. You can use this mv during the activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDBbnmKpqQ&ab_channel=OliviaRodrigoVEVO

Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo - Song Gap Fill

Exercise with the lyrics of Tones and I, Dance Monkey. I suggest the use of this material with students from intermediate levels or advanced. . I hope you enjoy!

Dance Monkey Tones and I

This is an activity using song lyrics to practice reported speech and vocabulary. 

First let your students fill in the blanks and after you have checked the answers ask them to underline the sentences that include reported speech and ask them to put them back in the direct form. 

You can also briefly touch upon the meaning of the song, hence the vocabulary box for better understanding of what the lyrics is about. 

Reported speech, song lyrics activity, Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

A song for teens from the young Swedish singer Zara Larsson, who was nominated last year at MTV Europe Music Awards. There are several exercises: fill the gaps with missing verbs, choose the right word, order the lines, unscramble letters to find the missing nouns, correct the mistakes, fill the gaps with synonyms and complete the missing letters. I hope you like it!

Song: Uncover - Zara Larsson

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

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how to express shock and disbelief in English

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how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

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how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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330 Music lyrics English ESL worksheets pdf & doc