Teaching English Grammar Using English Songs

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If you work as a teacher and you need a new method to teach Tenses to your student, You can use a music to teach them. Here are the list of some songs that you will find it very useful resource. I got this from Songs For Teaching English Grammar on TEFLtunes


Songs for teaching present simple
Eric Clapton / Wonderful Tonight (lyrics)
The Beatles / She Loves You (lyrics)
Bette Middler / From A Distance (lyrics)


Songs for teaching present continuous
Fool's Garden / Lemon Tree (lyrics)
Rod Stewart / Sailing (lyrics)
Suzanne Vega / Tom's Diner (lyrics)


Songs for teaching past simple
The Beatles / Yellow Submarine (lyrics)
Gloria Gaynor / I Will Survive (lyrics)
Celine Dion / Because You Loved Me (lyrics)


Songs for teaching past continuous
John Lennon / Jealous Guy (lyrics)
Oasis / Champagne Supernova (lyrics)
Aerosmith / Cryin'

Simple Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive

The past perfect simple expresses an action taking place before a certain time in the past.
Form of Past Perfect Simple

	Positive	Negative	Question
no differences	I had spoken.	I had not spoken.	Had I spoken?

For irregular verbs, use the past participle form (see list of irregular verbs, 3rd column). For regular verbs, just add ed.
Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ed

Auxiliary Verbs

Auxiliary Verbs are the verbs be, do, have, will when they are followed by another verb (the full verb) in order to form a question, a negative sentence, a compound tense or the passive.

The verb "be"

The verb be can be used as an auxiliary and a full verb. As an auxiliary we use this verb for compound tenses and the passive voice. Note that be is an irregular verb:

Simple Present:

I am, he/she/it is, we/you/they are

Simple Past:

I/he/she/it was, we/you/they were

Past Participle:

been

You can tell that in the following sentences be is an auxiliary because it is followed by another verb (the full verb). (For progressive forms use the "-ing" form of the full verb; for passive voice, use the past participle of the full verb.)

Progressive Forms

Present Progressive:

He is playing football.

Past Progressive:

He was playing football.

Present Perfect Progressive:

He has been playing football.

Past Perfect Progressive:

He had been playing football.

Passive

Common Mistake (II)

Indonesian Style     :    Come to here.

American Style       :    Come here.

Indonesian Style     :    Common students in US don't wear a uniform.

American Style       :    The average students in US don't wear a uniform.

Indonesian Style     :    Who cooked this salad ?

American Style       :    Who made this salad ?

Indonesian Style     :    Different from me, she is proficient in English.

American Style       :    Unlike me, she is proficient in English.

Indonesian Style     :    Little children are difficult to understand that.

American Style       :    It is difficult for children to understand that.

Present Simple and Present Continuous (Advanced)

We use the present simple to describe things that are always true, or situations that exist now and, as far as we know, will go on indefinitely:

• It takes me five minutes to get to school.

• Trees grow more quickly in summer than in winter.

• Liz plays the violin brilliantly.

 

To talk about particular actions or events that have begun but have not ended at the time of speaking, we use the present continuous:

• The car isn't starting again.

• 'Who are you phoning?' 'I'm trying to get through to Joan.'

• The shop is so inefficient that many customers are taking their business elsewhere.

We often use time expressions such as at the moment, at present, currently, just, and still to emphasise that the action or event is happening now:

• 'Have you done the shopping?' I am just going

Notice that the action or event may not be going on at the time of speaking:

• The police are talking to a number of people about the robbery.

List of Irregular Verbs

Infinitive	Simple Past	Past Participle
alight	alighted, alit	alighted, alit
arise	arose	arisen
awake	awoke, awaked	awoken, awaked
be	was, were	been
bear	bore	borne, born
beat	beat	beaten, beat
become	became	become
beget	begot	begotten
begin	began	begun
bend	bent	bent
bereave	bereaved, bereft	bereaved, bereft
beseech	besought, beseeched	besought, beseeched
bet	bet, betted	bet, betted
bid	bade, bid	bidden, bid, bade
bide	bade, bided	bided
bind	bound	bound
bite	bit	bitten
bleed	bled	bled
bless	blessed, blest	blessed, blest
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
breed	bred	bred
bring	brought	brought
broadcast	broadcast, broadcasted	broadcast, broadcasted
build	built	built

CONDITIONAL SENTENCE

(Kalimat Pengandaian) adalah kalimat yang menjelaskan bahwa sebuah kegiatan bertentangan dengan kegiatan yang lain. Conditional yang paling umum adalah Real Conditonal dan Unreal
Conditonal, kadang-kadang disebut juga if-clauses.

Real Conditional (sering juga disebut juga dengan Conditional Tipe I) yang menggambarkan tentang mengandai-andai sesuai dengan fakta.

Unreal Conditional (sering juga disebut sebagai Conditional Tipe II) yang menggambarkan tentang pengandaian yang tidak nyata atau berimajinasi.

Ada juga Conditional yang ke-3 yang sering disebut dengan Conditional Tipe III, digunakan sebagai penyesalan yang terjadi di masa lampau dan biasa berupa kritikan dan zero conditional, digunakan untuk mengekspresikan sesuatu yang sudah pasti benar.

Catatan: Jika  klausa "if" diletakkan di awal kalimat, kita harus menggunakan 'koma'. Sebaliknya jika klausa "if" berada di belakang, maka tidak perlu ada koma

Zero Conditional

Digunakan untuk mengekspresikan kebenaran umum. Tense yang digunakan biasanya Present Simple Tense

Intro to Tenses

Table of English Tenses

tense	Affirmative/Negative/Question	Use	Signal Words
Simple Present	A: He speaks. N: He does not speak. Q: Does he speak?	action in the present taking place once, never or several times facts actions taking place one after another action set by a timetable or schedule	always, every …, never, normally, often, seldom, sometimes, usually if sentences type I (If I talk, …)
Present Progressive	A: He is speaking. N: He is not speaking. Q: Is he speaking?	action taking place in the moment of speaking action taking place only for a limited period of time action arranged for the future	at the moment, just, just now, Listen!, Look!, now, right now
Simple Past	A: He spoke. N: He did not speak. Q: Did he speak?	action in the past taking place once, never or several times actions taking place one after another action taking place in the middle of another action	yesterday, 2 minutes ago, in 1990, the other day, last Friday if sentence type II (If I talked, …)
Past Progressive	A: He was speaking. N: He was not speaking. Q: Was he speaking?	action going on at a certain time in the past actions taking place at the same time action in the past that is interrupted by another action	when, while, as long as
Present Perfect Simple	A: He has spoken. N: He has not spoken. Q: Has he spoken?	putting emphasis on the result action that is still going on action that stopped recently finished action that has an influence on the present action that has taken place once, never or several times before the moment of speaking	already, ever, just, never, not yet, so far, till now, up to now
Present Perfect Progressive	A: He has been speaking. N: He has not been speaking. Q: Has he been speaking?	putting emphasis on the course or duration (not the result) action that recently stopped or is still going on finished action that influenced the present	all day, for 4 years, since 1993, how long?, the whole week
Past Perfect Simple	A: He had spoken. N: He had not spoken. Q: Had he spoken?	action taking place before a certain time in the past sometimes interchangeable with past perfect progressive putting emphasis only on the fact (not the duration)	already, just, never, not yet, once, until that day if sentence type III (If I had talked, …)

Present Perfect tense/PPt-Simple Past/SP

When we study English Grammar, usually we can't distinguish what tense we have to use to explain the action, especially learning English as the second language.
By this sort posting, I try to explain about Present Perfect and Simple Past Tense. Later we will post the other term about tenses.

We use PPt when we talk about something that happened in a period of time up to the present so there ir always a connection with now. The action in the past has a result now.e.g Jacky has lost his wallet : he lost it and still hasn't got it now.
In other, we use PPt in inform a recent happening.
~ the car is broken, it has gotten an accident.
We can use PPt with :
~ just:short time ago
~ already:happened sooner
~ yet:until now.

When we compare the PPt n SP:
1.PPt about action up to the present but SP about action at a particular finished time in the past.
Example:
-he puts to good use of a bag that has thrown away.
-I threw away my bag when it moved house.
2.we use PPt when report that someone has recently invented,produced etc..and we use SP when talk about something invented,etc in the more distant past.
3.we can use either PPt and PS to talk about repeated action or events. If we use PPt, we suggest that it will happen again. If we use PS, it suggests that it is finished and won't happen again.
4. We can use both the present perfect and the past simple to talk about states. We use PPt to talk about a state that exist in the past and still exist now, and we use simple past if the state no longer exists.
Exp:I have known him in most of my working life. ( I am still working) and I knew him when we were both working in Japan.
We use SP rather PPt when we use time adverbs that talk about finished periods of time. Exp: Jhony wrote his first diary at age of 24 in 1962.
Time adverbs that refer to the present such as today,this morning/week/month, can also be used with either the present perfect or past simple. If we see today etc. completed period of time,then we use the past simple; but if we see today,etc. as a period including the present moment,then we use the present perfect. Compare:
> I wrote three letters this morning. (=the morning is over) and
> I have written three letters this morning. (= it is still morning).

We use since to talk about a period that started at some point in the past and continues until the present time. This is why we often usen since with PPt. In sentence which includes a since-clause, the usual patterns is for the since-clause to contain PS, and the main clause to contain a present perfect. However, we can use a present perfect in the since-clause if the two situation described in the main idea and since-clause extend until the present. Exp: since I've worked here, I haven't gotten any trouble.