ESLSongs

A collection of song lyrics to teach English vocabulary and grammar in the ESL classroom

Welcome to ESLSongs

ESLSongs.com is a collection of over 150 well-known, hand-picked, pop, rock & folk songs whose lyrics are perfect for presenting or for practising specific grammar or vocabulary in the ESL classroom with teenagers and adults. Most of the songs also come with an easy-to-use worksheet that you can download in pdf format!

The lyrics of every single song on this website contain at least 5 different examples of the grammar or vocabulary that it is designed to practise, which guarantees a pragmatic and efficient use of the song in your classroom.

To get started, click on the grammar or vocabulary you want to practise from the menu, or have a look at the site’s most popular artists & song lyrics below…

A song to go back to school

Sam Cooke – Wonderful World
Since in most countries students are going back to school right now, let’s practice “school subjects” in ESL class with this song by Sam Cooke. The 10 school subjects and other school-related vocabulary that appear in this song’s lyrics are: algebra, an A student, book, biology, French, geography, history, science, took (took a subject) & trigonometry.
Topic: Education

Top 20 most popular songs for the ESL classroom

Grammar & Topics

• Beginners' Lyrics (11)
  • Basic level (8)
  • REALLY basic level (3)
  • Conditionals (9)
    • 1st conditional (4)
    • 2nd conditional (4)
    • 3rd conditional (2)
    • Defining relative clauses (2)
    • Question words (8)
      • All the question words (1)
      • How (2)
      • How many (2)
      • What (2)
      • Whose (1)
      • Question tags (1)
      • Subject questions (1)
      • Modal verbs of ability (6)
      • Modal verbs of deduction (2)
      • Modal verbs of obligation (5)
      • Modal verbs of possibility (5)
      • Past modals (1)
      • Adjectives (8)
        • Adjectives of personality (1)
        • Comparative & Superlative (2)
        • Describing people (3)
        • Adverbs of frequency (2)
        • Adverbs of manner (2)
        • Adverbs of place (1)
        • Clothes (1)
        • Colours (2)
        • Days of the week (1)
        • Family (1)
        • Food (2)
        • Jobs (2)
        • Months (1)
        • Nature (4)
          • Animals (2)
          • Weather (1)
          • Another, other(s), the other(s) (1)
          • Gerund (1)
          • ON, AT & IN (1)
          • Body movements & actions (1)
          • Phrasal verbs (2)
          • The verb "TO GET" (1)
          • Multiple Tenses (for revision) (8)
          • Past Tenses (22)
            • All narrative tenses (1)
            • Past continuous (2)
            • Past perfect (2)
            • Past simple (9)
              • Irregular verbs (8)
              • Present perfect continuous (4)
              • Present perfect simple (6)
                • For & since (1)
                • Present continuous (2)
                • Present simple (10)
                  • 3rd person singular (5)
                  • Future continuous (1)
                  • Future perfect (1)
                  • Going to (4)
                  • Will (1)
                  • Christmas holidays (3)
                    • New year's resolutions (1)
                    • Gender Equality (2)
                    • LGBT issues (1)
                    • Racism (1)
                    • Social Equality (1)