Useful Language - Songs for Your Grammar

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JAZZ CHANTS with useful sentences (from elementary to pre-intermediate)

Wish/Hope
I wish you were here (wish + pasts, including modals could/would), Pink Floyd
There is a listening activity with this song by a Y4 student at Your Stuff!
I hope I don't fall in love with you (hope + presents/futures), (Tom Waits) Emiliana Torrini

Must for deduction! - remember it is rarely used for obligation!
This must be heaven, Brainstorm

It must have been love, Roxette

People ARE!
People are strange, The Doors


Tell me why, omission of the, make people do things, (I wanna shoot) the whole day (down)
I don't like Mondays, Boom Town Rats


Another + indeterminate singular, pretend, call out, can (ability), must (deduction)
Another day in paradise, Phil Collins


Have you ever + past participle
Have you ever, Offspring


Every, Future continuous

Every Breath You Take, The Police


Getting the blues, things getting you down...
Rainy days and Mondays, Susan Wong


Hypothetical conditional sentences
Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton


-al adjectives
The Logical Song, Supertramp


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