Songs in ESL Classes

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QT-ESL: My Favorite Songs—With Cloze and Other Exercises

QT-ESL: Songs with subtitled lyrics (1) and exercises

QT-ESL: Songs with subtitled lyrics (2)

QT-ESL: Beatles Song Videos—With Subtitles in English (Closed Captions)

QT-ESL: ABBA Song Videos and Lyrics for Sing-Along!

QT-ESL: Song Parodies Written By Students

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QT-ESL: ABBA Song Videos and Lyrics for Sing-Along! (Song Videos Subtitles+Exercises)

You can become very good at English by learning by heart the lyrics to the songs of the Swedish groups ABBA.

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QT-ESL: Beatles Song Videos—With Subtitles in English (Closed Captions) (Song Videos Subtitles+Exercises)

Beatles songs with subtitles in English (Closed Captions) for ESL/EFL/ELT teaching is a way of using video and getting students to sing together in class. Useful vocabulary, easy to understand lyrics, music known the whole world round; an excellent way to communicate with other nationalities; universal meaning.

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Student Song Parodies (Student Parodies of Favorite Songs)

Song Parodies Written By Students

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Songs with subtitled lyrics & exercises (Song Videos Subtitles+Exercises)

Songs in English (video clips-mostly with English closed captions and scripts, exercises or worksheets when possible).

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My Favorite Songs—With Cloze and Other Exercises (Lyrics and cloze exercises for songs)

Lyrics and cloze exercises for songs that work well in ESL or EFL classes.

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QT-ESL: Songs with subtitled lyrics (2) (Song Videos Subtitles+Exercises)

Songs (video clips with English closed captions/subtitled lyrics) for ESL/EFL courses by Queen, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Bee Gees, Iron Maiden, Alexander Rybak - Eurovision Winner 2009 - Norway, Jóhanna Guðrún - Second in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 - Iceland, Radiohead, Dixie Chicks, Supertramp, The Cure, Erasure, The Beach Boys, David Bowie, Men at Work, Roxette, Gary Moore, Foo Fighters, Frogs, The Statler Brothers, Roxette. Also songs from cartoons like the Lion King.

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