ENGLISH AS A SINGING LANGUAGE

Song: L-O-V-E Year: 1965 Artist: Nat King Cole Album: L-O-V-E Language Focus: Vowel Sounds Episode Description It’s been a long time, but we think it will be worth the wait! One of the things we love most about working on the podcast is meeting interesting, enthusiastic, talented people! We have a special Valentine’s-themed, connections episode for our first episode back. We created an episode with singing-coach, actor, and podcaster Estelle Idoko! In this episode, using the

Song: If I Had a Million Dollars Year: 1988 Artist: Barenaked Ladies Album: Gordon Language Focus: Unreal Conditionals Episode...

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...