Using Songs to Illustrate Grammar Points

(TESOL Worksheets--Any Grammar Point)

2nd Conditionals
* If I Were a Boy by Beyonce 
* If 6 Was 9 by Jimi Hendrix 
3rd Conditional
* If It Hadn't Been for Love by Adele
Double Comparatives

* The More We Get Together Nursery Rhyme

Gerunds
* Wishing and Hoping by Dusty Springfield
Infinitives

* You Don't Own Me by Lesley Gore--to+ infinitive verb patterns

Modal Verbs:
* I Should be Proud by Martha and the Vandellas
Negative Verbs
* You Don't Own Me by Leslie Gore
Noun Clauses

* I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart

* Do You Know Where You're Going To by Diana Ross

Passive
*The Banks are Made of Marble by Pete Seeger 

Prepositions of Movement

* The Bear Went Over The Mountain for Prepositions of Movement

Present Perfect
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2   
Present Tense Verbs
* Present Tense Verbs using "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
Reported Speech
* The Letter by The Box Tops
*Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals
Used to
* It’s All Over Now by The Rolling Stones
Used to and Would
* Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves by Cher: "used to" and "would" for repeated actions in the past

Verb Complements

* Using Waist Deep In The Big Muddy by Pete Seeger for Verb Complements
Will for Future Predictions
* Que Sera Sera by Doris Day 
Wish
* Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy by Leslie Gore 

* Using "I Wish" by  Skee-Lo to teach Wish +V2 structure

Would + base form (for repeated past actions)

* Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield

Note: A version of this index appeared in my TESOL Songsheets index, but I wanted to also post it on its own so it is easier to find and use.