ENGLISH AS A SINGING LANGUAGE

Song: Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) Year: 2011 Artist: Kelly Clarkson Album: Stronger Language Focus: Comparative Adjectives Episode...

Song: Hazy Shade of Winter Year: 1966 Artist: Simon & Garfunkel Album: Bookends Language Focus: Fluency Episode Description It’s the...

Song: New Year’s Day Year: 2017 Artist: Taylor Swift Album: Reputation Language Focus: Idioms/Figurative Language Episode Description...

Song: Yesterday Year: 1965 Artist: The Beatles Album: Help Language Focus: Verb Tenses Episode Description It’s hard to believe, but this...

Song: Stretchy Pants Year: 2021 Artist: Carrie Underwood Language Focus: reduced pronunciation, colloquial grammar, holiday vocabulary...

Song: Monster Mash Year: 1962 Artist: Bobby “Borris” Pickett and the Crypt Keepers Album: The Original Monster Mash Language Focus: Vowel...

Song: Everybody Wants to Rule the World Year: 1985 Artist: Tears for Fears Album: Songs from the Big Chair Language Focus: Figurative...

Song: I Know an Old Woman Year: 1946 Artist: Various Album: Various Language Focus: Adjective Clauses Episode Description In each season,...

Song: Take A Chance On Me Artist: ABBA Year: 1977 Album: ABBA: The Album Language Feature: Fluency Episode Description We love listening...

Song: Soak up the Sun Artist: Sheryl Crow Year: 2002 Album: C’mon, C’mon Language Feature: Vocabulary Episode Description It’s summertime...

Song: Be Myself Artist: Montana Tucker, featuring Todrick Hall Year: 2021 Album: Single Language Feature: Reduced Pronunciation  Episode...

Episode Description We started English as a Singing Language as a way for people to have fun singing while practicing English...

Song: That’s What Friends Are For Artist: Rod Stewart and Dionne Warwick and Friends (Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Elton John) Year:...

Song: 9 to 5 Artist: Dolly Parton Year: 1980 Album: 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs Language Feature: Fluency and Idioms Episode Description English...

Song: Under the Boardwalk Artist: The Drifters Year: 1964 Album: B-side of “I don’t want to go on without you” Language Feature:...

Song: Roar Artist: Katy Perry Year: 2013 Album: Prism Language Feature: Colloquial vocabulary Episode Description There were so many...

Song: Fight Song Artist: Rachel Platten Year: 2015 Album: Released as a single Language Feature: Consonants f and v Episode Description...

Song: Eight Days a Week Artist: The Beatles Year: 1964 Album: Beatles for Sale Language Feature: Present Simple and Imperative Verbs...

Song: This is Me Artist: Keala Settle Year: 2017 Album: The Greatest Showman,  Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Language Feature: Schwa...

Song: Winter Things Artist: Ariana Grande Year: 2015 Album: Christmas and Chill Language Feature: Winter vocabulary Episode Description...