A Teacher's Guide to Using Popular Music in the EFL Classroom

Learn how to make your lessons the most fun, interesting and effective in the entire school. Engage your students, impress their parents and dazzle the director. Do all this and more with your own unique knowledge of western music culture. Pop music is a great way of grabbing hold of a class’s attention. It is immense fun for both the teacher and students. What is more, the human brain is far more adept at retaining information when it is set to a rhythm and a catchy beat. This book sets out with three introductory chapters looking at the relatively unknown scientific aspects of music in education. The first looks at the “Mozart Effect.” How listening to music boosts learning performance of mental tasks like learning. It explains how music is a universal language as well as a powerful teaching tool. It is one of the most motivating resources that can change the atmosphere in the language classroom within seconds. The second examines the undisputed health benefits of music, from its long history as a medicine to the very latest discoveries in the fight against conditions like Alzheimer's. The third investigates why such and an elementary form of human expression, and how it connects not only disparate cultures but entirely different species. From there it launches straight into the songs themselves, with full instructions on different ways to use them effectively and explaining how you and your students can get the utmost benefit from them. Each level, beginner, intermediate and advanced includes thirty different songs. Many of them you will know well, others might be new to both you and your class. Each one comes with a full introductory description, including background information about its success and the artist responsible for its creation. The lyrics are included in their entirety so that you can use them to create an appropriate close exercise. All you need to do is copy, paste and print. Wherever possible, there are different versions listed so that you can give your students a variety of performances. Every genre is covered, from soul to ska, from rock to rap, from punk to country. An extra ten novelty songs are also included to round out the total to one hundred. Finally, there is a selection of practical online resources so that you can download the actual tracks and eventually find lots more. This book is the ultimate guide to using music in the classroom. It will inspire, to educate and most importantly of all, help you cut down on your classroom prep. Table of Contents Introduction The Benefits Music as Medicine Music Makes us Human Song Selection How to Use These Songs Basic Level Said I Loved You... But I Lied - Michael Bolton Man Gave Names To All The Animals - Bob Dylan Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work Stay - Shakespears Sister I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor This Is What Your Are - Mario Biondi and The High Five Quintet I Know There's Something Going On - Frida Babe - Styx Hello – Lionel Richie Take The Money and Run - The Steve Miller Band Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas David Watts - The Jam Don't You Want Me - The Human League Doo Wah Diddy – Mannfred Mann Small Town Boy - Bronski Beat Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen The Trees – Rush In Only Seven Days – Queen Da-Doo - Little Shop of Horrors Tainted Love - Soft Cell Ghost Town - The Specials It Was A Very Good Year – Frank Sinatra The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace Ballad Of The Green Beret - Dolly Parton I Knew You Were Trouble - Taylor Swift Beth - Kiss White Horses - Jackie Lee Intermediate Level Jailbreak - ACDC Butcher and Fast Eddie - Rose Tattoo Ex-Girlfriend - No Doubt Right Next Door (Because of Me) - Robert Cray The Night - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Nellie The Elephant - Toy Dolls Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – ACDC Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Mr. Brownstone - Guns and Roses Black Betty - Ram Jam Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town – Kenny Rogers Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf Car 67 - Driver 67 Stand and Deliver – Adam and the Ants Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow Billy Don't Be A Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods Up The Junction - Squeeze Smithers-Jones – The Jam Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean That Man - Caro Emerald The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band Ka Ching - Shania Twain A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash Turning My Heartbeat Up - MVP Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers Magic Man – Heart The Diary Of Horace Wimp - Electric Light Orchestra Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones Jilted John - Jilted John Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme I Don't Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats Keep A Secret - The Whitest Boy Alive LL Cool J - I Need Love Advanced Level Gangstas Paradise – Coolio Word Up - Cameo White Lines - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and Melle Mel The Logical Song – Supertramp Toast - Streetband The Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam What A Waste - Ian Dury & The Blockheads Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd Stan - Eminem The Message - Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five Gotta Serve Somebody - Bob Dylan Rasputin - Boney M. I Feel Better Than James Brown - Was (Not Was) Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Smuggler's Blues - Glenn Frey 18 And Life – Skid Row Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield My Summer Vacation – Ice Cube The Man in the Iron Mask - Billy Bragg Rocky Raccoon – Lena Horne What Do You Want From Life - The Tubes Papa Was A Rollin' Stone – The Temptations Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce The Battle Of New Orleans - Johnny Horton The Gambler - Kenny Rogers The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy Children's Story - Slick Rick Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good International - Lack of Afro Ten Novelty Songs The Laughing Gnome – David Bowie It's Fun To Smoke Dust - DJ Lobsterdust Court of King Caractacus - Rolf Harris I Know an Old Woman – Jon Pertwee Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan The Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne Convoy - C.W. McCall Up From a Sub 60 Feet Below – USMC Music Resources Most Wanted