Even If You Can't Carry a Tune: Grammar Through Popular Songs

by Polly Merdinger, Joel Rosenfeld

Even If You Can't Carry a Tune offers a thoroughly unique approach for combining culture and grammar in the high-beginning to high-intermediate ESL classroom. It teaches basic grammatical structures as presented naturally in ten popular songs, including Tennessee Waltz, Cat's in the Cradle, Little Boxes, and Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree. The songs -- representative of folk, jazz, rock, pop and Broadway -- are illustrative not simply of American musical styles but of American culture as well, telling as they do of our attitudes towards love, family and friendship.

95 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984