Songs!

Do you like using songs in your lessons? Are you fed up with gap fills?? Me too! Here are some links with plenty of great ideas to engage your students in fun activities involving music:


14 song-based lesson plans and activities → A great article on using music in teaching by Onthesamepage ELT;

Beyond Gap Fills → ways of exploiting songs in language teaching;

Using music and songs → an interesting article by British Council;

The Language Gym → a recommendable article by Dr Gianfranco Conti;

Voices → another useful article by BC;

• Some gap fill worksheets for your teenage/adult students: 

Ed Sheeran 'Shape of you'

Amy Winehouse 'Valerie' 

Bruno Mars 'Just the way you are'

Cher 'If I could turn back time'

David Guetta 'Titanium' 

Ed Sheeran 'Thinking out loud' 

Gotye 'Somebody that I used to know' 

Johnny Cash 'She used to love me a lot' 

Avicii 'Hey Brother' 

Bruno Mars ' Locked out of heaven' 

Justin Timberlake 'Can't stop the feeling' 

Keane 'Somewhere only we know' 

Olly Murs 'Wrapped up' 

Rihanna 'Stay' 

Taylor Swift 'We are never ever getting back together' 

• Some songs with mistakes which your students need to find and correct: 

Coldplay 'Adventure of a lifetime'



I'll be updating this post with more ideas and worksheets in the future so make sure you come back to read it :)