ESL Song of the Week (The Cure). Do your B2 students abandon target grammar during speaking activities? Use Olivia Rodrigo’s song to create structured peer-led debates that require students to use modals of deduction to defend their judgments.
Category: Modal Verbs
ESL Song of the Week (The Cure) Part 1: Moving Beyond Sterile Drills
ESL Song of the Week: The Cure. Are your textbook examples for modals of deduction too predictable? Use Olivia Rodrigo’s hit to turn modern anxiety into a classroom mystery where students gather clues, interpret evidence, and naturally use modals of deduction.
ESL Song of the Week (Younger You) Part 2: From Noticing Language to Actually Using It
ESL Song of the Week: Teaching the Tracks 2026. Do extroverted students dominate your group work? Break the classroom monologue in your song-based lessons with “Younger You” by assigning peer roles that require learners to actively use target grammar.
ESL Song Of The Week (Younger You) Part 1: How To Stop Passive Listening
ESL Song of the Week: Teaching the Tracks 2026. Do your students fake comprehension by guessing emotional cues from the music? Stop passive listening in your song-based lessons with “Younger You” by temporarily withholding the audio to encourage real textual analysis.
The ELT Identity Crisis: Finding Balance in Methodological Uncertainty
Feeling caught between pushing your intermediate students harder and reducing classroom anxiety? Discover how to structure song-based lessons that offer a practical alternative to ELT’s ideological extremes, balancing emotional safety with the cognitive challenge needed to encourage real communication.
Beyond the Vibe: Using Songs to Stop Predictable B1 Speaking
B1 learners often stall at surface emotions and miss critical signals. This lesson uses the MUSIC+ framework to replace vague sentiment with linguistic precision: teach evidence-based advice using should, have to, and recovery phrasal verbs with MGK’s “Times of My Life.”
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