Pages complémentaires :

Musique :
Vocabulary - Flashcards and Cliparts - Conversation questions -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print - Lesson plans - Webquests -
Games to print - Songs - Idioms and Proverbs - Cartoons

Search Engines :

• Google
• The Lyrics Library (tinpan.fortunecity)
• Lyrics Search Engine - Popular Lyrics (astraweb)

Songs and Poems :

• Des chansons avec Video clips - Les paroles se trouvent sur d'autres pages du site (olografix.org)

• London bridge is falling down Nursery Rhyme - Lyrics, History and Origins
  (rhymes.org.uk)

• Nursery Rhymes - SUNG + ANIMATIONS - You can read them. (tripod.com/nursery_school)
  
• SING-ALONG - The Menzies Era - Songs : 1949 to 1972 (with music) - (menziesera.com)

• Mama Lisa's World :
  Chidren's Songs and Nursery Rhymes of All Nations - You can listen to the music.
  (mamalisa.com)
  
  

• Official State Songs with the lyrics and MIDI music (50states.com)

• Songs & Poems :
  Seasons - Special Days - Animals - Vegetation - Food - Family & Friends - Language Arts - Math - At School...
  (canteach.ca)

• Music and Songs about :
  100th Day - Alphabet - Animals - Baby - Back To School - Beach & Ocean - Birthday - Bugs - Camping - Circle - Time - Circus - Clothes & Shoes - Colors - Community Helpers - Dental Health - Disney - Family - Farm - Fire Safety - Flowers & Plants - Food - Forest - Friendship - Garden - Graduations - Hats - Health & Safety - Holidays - Hospital - Kites - Jungle & Rainforest - Manners - Me, Myself, & I - Medieval Monsters - Months - My Body - Numbers - Nursery Rhymes - Olympics - Picnic - Praise of God - Reptiles & Pond Life - Senses - Seasons - Shape - Space - Spiders -
  Teddy Bears - Transitions - Transportation - Weather - Western
  (preschooleducation.com)

• Song sheets "Sheets to be used with popular children's songs. Sheets include pictures and words." (eslkidstuff.com)
  
  

• The new ETNI music section (etni.org.il) :
  "Pour les petits. Les paroles et gestes de Head, shoulder, knees and toes et quelques autres." -
  Songs by subject

• Artist Profiles (BBC) - BROWSE ARTIST PROFILES BY GENRE or SEARCH FOR ARTISTS / COMPOSERS / BANDS

• Sold On Song (BBC) : Classic Songs - Covers - Songwriting - Quizzes...
  
  
  

Folksongs :

• Folksongs (ingeb.org)
• Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America - (contemplator.com)
  Tunes, lyrics, information, historical background and tune-related links
  
  
  
• Folk Music Song Lists for Radio (nwfolk.com) :
  By Theme - Musician Birthdays - Seasonal and Holiday - Miscellaneous
  
  

English Songs :

• English songs (ingeb.org) :
  Guy Fawkes -
  In good King Charles's golden days -
  Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner -
  Rule Britannia...

Halloween :

• Hallowe'en and Pumpkins Songs & Poems (canteach.ca)
  Witches, Halloween, skeletons, cats, scarecrows

Soundtrack Lyrics :

• Movies and Musicals! - music and lyrics (niehs.nih.gov)
  
  
  
• Soundtrack Lyrics Source - Newest Song Lyrics for Movies, Cartoons, TV, Musicals. (stlyrics.com)
  
  

Singers :

• No bravery by James Blunt - with the video clip
  "Houses burnt beyond repair.
  The smell of death is in the air.
  A woman weeping in despair says,
  He has been here..."

• Genesis : Driving The Last Spike Lyrics :
  "In the early 1800's, large groups of mainly unskilled labourers built england's railways. the cost in human terms alone was very high..."

• Billy Joel : "We Didn't Start the Fire" - (teacheroz.com)
  History presented (rareexception.com)

• Laid Back - Baker Man - présent be+ing : Lien modifié
  "BAKER MAN IS BAKING BREAD ...
  THE NIGHT TRAIN IS COMING ..."
  (nomorelyrics.net)

• Stray Cats - Rumble In Brighton Lyrics

• The Rasmus - In The Shadow - present perfect progressif : Lien modifié
  "I´ve been watching
  I've been waiting
  In the shadows
  For my time
  I´ve been searching
  I´ve been living
  For tomorrows
  All my life ..."
  (lyrics007.com)

Music : (voir aussi Musique en vocabulaire)

• Music (intermediate level) - TRUE OR FALSE? - interactive activity (english.specialist.hu)

• Music Vocabulary - (about.com)
  "Match the verb in the column on the left with the correct noun from the column on the right" (interactive)

• Play Music : instruments - composers... (playmusic.org)
  
  

• MUSIC - (teacheroz.com)
  MUSIC PERIODS & SPECIFIC COMPOSERS -
  CLASSICAL MUSIC & SYMPHONIES AROUND THE WORLD ROCK, JAZZ, BLUES, FOLK, COUNTRY, & SWING MUSIC
  Plus, American Popular Music in History -
  MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS -
  MUSIC EDUCATION, THEORY, THERAPY, & EFFECTS
  
  

• Artist Profiles (BBC) - BROWSE ARTIST PROFILES BY GENRE or SEARCH FOR ARTISTS / COMPOSERS / BANDS

• Sold On Song (BBC) : Classic Songs - Covers - Songwriting - Quizzes...

• British Pop Music (learnenglish.de) :
  Banghra - BritPop - Garage - Glam Rock (aka Glitter Rock) - Goth - Grunge - Hip Hop - Indie - Madchester - Mods - Northern Soul - Punk - Rockers - Ska - Soca - Techno - UK Garage - Learning English through Pop Music -
  Interesting British Bands

• BRITPOP FAMILY TREE (britkid.org)
  
  
  Click on the picture

• New York Philharmonic Kidzone - (nyphilkids.org)
  Musician's Lounge, Composers' Gallery, Instrument Storage Room, Instrument Laboratory, Conductor/Soloist Dressing Rooms, Newsstand,
  Games (quizzes, scavenger hunts), and Composer's Workshop.
  
  

Resources -
Comparatives of similar degree in songs

Appleseed - Colours -
For Discussion - Dreams - History - Home - Humorous -
Idioms in songs -
Liberty - Literature - Love -
Personal names - Places - Phonology - Protest songs - Proverbs in songs -
Questions - Road - Rooms - Sea/Seaside - War - For children

• RESOURCES :
  
  • SONG LISTS (poemhunter.com)
    - Songs on / about :
    " june " kiss " laughter " life " lonely " loss " lost " love " marriage " memory " mirror " miss " money " mother......
    
  • The ESL Song Directory - to download (gs.fanshawec.on.ca)
    "Need a song that helps teach the present perfect tense? Looking for a fun listening activity to practise R-L discrimination? Want a song that discusses chemistry? The ESL Song Directory contains an indexed listing for more than 400 popular songs appropriate for teaching in ESL classes of all levels. Each song entry in the listing, names the artist(s), the album(s) or CDs where the track can be found and indexed notes about the grammatical structures, themes and functions the song contains."

    

   

  • Quelques chansons remarquables classées par thème (ac-orleans-tours.fr) :
    - Chansons qui racontent une histoire
    - Chansons sur des personnes
    - Chansons sur des personnages ayant vécu
    - Chansons sur des lieux
    - Chansons sur les transports
    - Chansons sur les animaux
    - Chansons sur la météo
    - Chansons sur la drogue
    - Chansons sur la guerre
    - Chansons irrévérencieuses : Mais pas trop...
    - Chansons écolo : Mais pas trop...
    - Chansons pour aller voir ailleurs
    - Chansons absurdes
    - Textes récités
    - Chansons utilisables en primaire
    - Chansons pour faire de la grammaire

   

  • Multicultural Song Index (edchange.org) :
    Themes : Race and Ethnicity - Social Class - Age - Gender - General & Other - Education...

   

  • Songlists (mapville.com) : Lien modifié
    Geography - Animal - Kissing songs - Food & Drink - About Space -
    Wrong Side of the Tracks - About Roses...

   

  • Folk Music Song Lists for Radio (nwfolk.com) :
    By Theme - Musician Birthdays - Seasonal and Holiday - Miscellaneous
    
    
    
  • Songs by Subject (etni.org.il) :
    Animal Songs - Colours and Clothes - Festivals - Greetings & Seasons - Numbers -
    Parts of the Body or Songs for Movement and Dance - Professions - Transport

   

• Comparatifs d'égalité dans les chansons (Ac. Nancy-Metz)

• Appleseed Songs sorted by category - "sowing the seeds of justice through music" (appleseedrec.com)

• COLOURS :
  
  
  • Songs with colors in the title (answers.yahoo.com) - Lien modifié

• For DISCUSSION :
  
  
  • Songs for discussion
    - FOLK SONGS BY LEVEL, TOPIC & THEME
    (btinternet.com)

   

• DREAMS :
  
  • 'David Watts' by The Jam :
    "I wish I could have all the money he's got
    I wish I could be like David Watts..."

   

  • 'Dreamer' by Ozzy Osborne :
    "I'm just a dreamer, I dream my life away
    I'm just a dreamer, who dreams of better days..."

   

  • 'Dreamer' by Supertramp

   

  • 'Motorpsycho Nightmare' by Bob Dylan

   

  • 'Sweet Dreams' by Eurythmics

   

  • 'Wish' by Lighthouse Family :
    "I wish I knew how I'm gonna be happy without you..."

   

  • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free by Nina Simone (or by Lighthouse Family)
    "And I wish I knew how
    It would feel to be free
    I wish that I could break
    All the chains holding me
    I wish I could say
    All the things that I'd like to say...."

  • My Wish Came True by Elvis Presley

   

• HISTORY :
  
  
  • L'histoire en musique
    La question noire / Pacifisme, chansons contre la guerre du Vietnam. /
    Une jeunesse avide changements. Contestation étudiante dans les 1960's. /
    Les laissés pour compte du rêve américain. / etc...
    (lhistgeobox.blogspot.com)
    
    
    
  • See Songs
    
    
    
  • 'Songs' (in American History)

• HOME :
  
  • Home on The Range by Gene Autry
    "Home, home on the Range;
    Where the deer and the antelope play;
    Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word,
    And the skies are not cloudy all day..."
    Gene Autry sang this song nostalgically about the place where cowboys feel comfortable and happy.

   

• HUMOROUS :
  
  • Humorous Folk Songs - list (nwfolk.com)

• Idiomes dans les chansons (Ac. Nancy-Metz)

• LIBERTY :
  
  • Liberty Songs (classroomclassics.com)
    
    

   

• LITERATURE :
  
  
  
  • Songs Inspired By Literature (artistsforliteracy.org)

   

  • List of songs that retell a work of literature (Wikipedia) - ex :
    - 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' is an Alan Parsons Project LP which retells several Edgar Allan Poe stories
    - "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane partially retells 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll...

   

• LOVE :
  
  • I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS by FOREIGNER

   

  • Honesty by Billy Joel

   

• PERSONAL NAMES :
  
  
  • List of songs whose title includes personal names (indopedia.org) - Lien modifié

   

• PHONOLOGY :
  • Songs for phonology
    FOLK SONGS WITH HIGH FREQUENCY OF PHONEMES BY LEVEL
    (01-20 are VOWEL SOUNDS and 21-44 are CONSONANT SOUNDS)
    (btinternet.com)

   

• PLACES :
  
  • When Songwriters Leave Their Heart in a City, San Francisco or Any Other
    Songs about cities, from coast to coast, ''New York, New York'' to ''I Love L.A.''
    + Transcript of radio broadcast
    (voanews.com)
    
    
    
  • Hotel California by The Eagles

     

• PROTEST SONGS :
  
  
  • Greatest Eighties Protest Songs
    (inthe80s.com)
  • Antiwar and Protest Songs - Lyrics and Streaming Audio
    (eslbee.com)
    
    
    
  • Protest songs for today (wsws.org)

   

  • see War

   

   

• PROVERBS in SONGS (Ac. Nancy-Metz)

• QUESTIONS :
  
  
  • List of song titles phrased as questions (Wikipedia)

   

• The ROAD :

  • ON THE ROAD AGAIN by Canned Heat (lyrics007.com) - Lien modifié
    
  • THE ROAD TO HELL by Chris Rea (lyricsdownload.com) - Lien modifié

   

• ROOMS :
  
  • English Songs About Rooms (learnenglish.de)

   

• The SEA / The SEASIDE :
  
  • On the Beach by Chris Rea

   

  • The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding

   

• WAR :
  
  • Antiwar and Protest Songs - Lyrics and Streaming Audio
    (eslbee.com)
    
    
    
  • Anti-War Songs (technohippie.com)

   

  • Protest Music (PBS)

   

  • Chansons sur la guerre (Ac. Orléans-Tours)

   

  • Contemporary Antiwar and Protest Songs - tout en bas de la page (eslbee.com)

   

  • see the page about WAR

   

   

• Chansons pour enfants
  Traditional - Lullabies - Songs to teach the alphabet, counting, days of the week, etc.-
  Songs to make you laugh - Songs about stuff that's yummy for the tummy! - Animals - Nature - Spiritual -
  Valentine's Day, Hallowe'en and Christmas songs
  ( kididdles.com)

• Dictionary of Proverbs in American Country Music Hits (1986-1996) - (deproverbio.com)

• Music Glossary (essentialsofmusic.com)

• Music Education at Datadragon - (datadragon.com)
  "Learn about different Music Genres and what happens today in music history.
  Learn and hear about different instruments."

• Instruments of the orchestra (sfskids.org)
  Strings - Woodwinds - Brass - Percussion / Orchestra seating chart
  
  
  
  
  

• THE ULTIMATE RAP DICTIONARY (rapdict.org) - Lien modifié

• Interjections in the Rap Dictionary (rapdict.org)

• Rap related geography terms in the Rap Dictionary (rapdict.org)

• Le patois rasta - Comprendre et parler le "dread talk" en quelques leçons (fluctuat.net)
  Histoire d'une langue - Le patois et la culture rasta - Up-full Sounds - Glossaire I - Glossaire II - Liens