Canções para estudar inglês divididas por nível de aprendizado.

O estudo de um idioma é muito importante pra vida e isto é de conhecimento geral. Mas o que também temos de levar em consideração é que o inglês ou o espanhol também fazem parte do conteúdo de quase todos os vestibulares importantes do Brasil. Sobre o espanhol não posso ajudar muito, sei o suficiente pra me virar, mas com relação ao inglês eis uma lista de canções divididas por ordem de nível de aprendizado. Ajudará bastante aos vestibulandos e também aos que estudam o idioma da Rainha.

Bons estudos...

Basic 1
Hello, goodbye – The Beatles (greetings / opposites)
Hello, I love you – The Cure / The Doors (greetings)
Dancing barefoot – U2 / Concrete Blonde (pronouns)
Friday, I’m in love – The Cure (days of the week)
Days of the week – Stone Temple Pilot (days of the week)
Monday, Monday – The Mammas and The Pappas (days of the week)
Lazing on a Sunday afternoon – Queen (days of the week / prepositions)
Rock around the clock – Bill Haley & The Comets (telling the time)
Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen (‘I was born in...’)
What’s your sign? – Des’ree (astrological signs)
She’s not just a pretty face – Shania Twain (occupations)
I believe I can fly – R. Kelly (abilities – can)
How to dance – Bingo Boys (directions)
What a wonderful world – Louis Armstrong (nouns/colors/ ‘what a ...!’)
Sk8ter Boi – Avril Lavigne (nouns)
Three little birds – Bob Marley / Gilberto Gil (nouns)
Mambo no. 5 – Lou Bega (numbers/names/prepositions)

Basic 2
Don’t speak – No Doubt (grammar: -ing)
Tom’s Diner – Suzanne Vega (present progressive)
Unwell – Matchbox 20 (present progressive)
Tell him – Vanda Shepard (object pronoun: ‘him’)
Mr. Jones – Counting Crows (object pronoun: ‘me’)
Rock and roll all night – KISS (object pronouns: ‘you / us’)
Spending my time – Roxette (present progressive / simple present)
There she goes – Sixpence None the Richer (simple present 3rd person singular)
My new boyfriend – Carly Simon (simple present 3rd person singular)
How do you do – Roxette (simple present / vocabulary)
Eternal Flame – The Bangles / Atomic Kittens (simple present – interrogative)
She loves you – The Beatles (simple present)
Say a little prayer – Diana King / Aretha Franklin / Dione Warwick (simple present – daily routine)
Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton (simple present – daily routine)
People are strange – The Doors (simple present)
Various (kinds of music)
Various (movies)
Three kisses of love – Bee Gees (adverbs of frequency)
Short skirt, long jacket - Cake (clothes/adjectives)
The only thing that looks good on me is you – Bryan Adams (clothes)
Luka – Suzanne Vega (simple present/places in the house)
Barbie Girl – Acqua (mixed up verb tenses / vocabulary)

Intermediate 1
Thank you – Dido (situations to practice modal verbs/advice)
Blowing in the wind – Joan Baez / Bob Dylan (modals / questions)
Y.M.C.A. – Edson Cordeiro (gym class)
You’ll see – Madonna (future – will)
From the heart – Another Level (future – will)
Truly, madly, deeply – Savage Garden (future – will)
Strangelove – Depeche Mode (future – will / affirm., inter., contractions)
Jesse – Carly Simon (future – will / won’t)
I won’t dance – Frank Sinatra (future – won’t)
You’ll be in my heart – Phil Collins (future – will)
The deeper the love – Whitesnake (comparative)
Bigger, stronger – Coldplay (comparative)
The most beautiful girl in the world – Prince (superlative)
(Simply) The best – Tina Turner (superlative)
The most beautiful love song – Debbie Gibson (comparatives / superlatives)
A good song – Valdy (‘neither’)
Because you loved me – Celine Dion (simple past)
Last kiss – Pearl Jam (simple past)
Painted on my heart – The Cult (simple past)
A day in the life – The Beatles (simple past)
How did I fall in love with you – Backstreet Boys (simple past)
Why did you – Kumbia Kings (simple past)
Did I shave my legs for this? – Deana Carter (simple past)
This used to be my playground - Madonna (childhood / used to)
How you remind me – Nickelback (remind somebody of)
You remind me – Usher (remind somebody of)
I’m a believer – The Monkeys (to talk about fairy tales and love stories)
Jealous guy – John Lennon (love / jealousy)

Intermediate 2
It’s raining men – Weather Girls / Gloria Gaynor (mixed up verb tenses – review)
With or without you – U2 (with / without)
California Dreamin’ – The Mammas and the Pappas (to talk about the weather)
Don’t tell me – Madonna (weather vocabulary)
Fortune Teller – The Rolling Stones (to talk about fortune teller)
Zodiac - Roberta Flack (astrological signs)
Drops of Jupiter – Train (astrology)
When – Shania Twain (optimism / pessimism – verb tenses review)
Dancing in the moonlight – Toploader (to talk about parties)
Happy new year – Abba (new year’s eve)
Have you ever seen the rain? – Credence Clearwater Revival /
Spin Doctors / Bonnie Tyler & Meatloaf / Ramones (present perfect)
Have you ever – Brandy (present perfect)
Have you ever – The Offspring (present perfect)
Why haven’t I heard – Reba McIntyre (present perfect)
Look what you’ve done – Bread / Jet (present perfect / simple past)
Have you ever been in love – Celine Dion (present perfect)
(If you're not in it for love) I'm outta here! – Shania Twain (starting a conversation / men – women)
Man! I feel like a woman – Shania Twain (differences between men and women)
Working class hero – John Lennon (to talk about work)
You gotta be – Des’ree (adjectives)
I’ll remember – Madonna (memories)
Wedding day – UB 40 (to talk about wedding)
The wedding song – Petula Clark (to talk about wedding)
Love is a wonderful thing – Michael Bolton (to talk about love / homonyms / adjectives)
Again - Lenny Kravitz (mixed up verb tenses)
You’re my best friend - Queen (mixed up verb tenses)
Love of my life – Queen (mixed up verb tenses)
What can I do – The Corrs (present perfect / talk about love)
It’s my life – Bon Jovi (vocabulary practice)
By your side – Sade (adjectives / extra vocabulary)

High Intermediate
Tears in heaven – Eric Clapton (2nd conditional / interrogative)
If I had a hammer – Trini Lopez (2nd conditional)
If I were a rich man – Zero Mostel (2nd conditional)
If I was a rich girl – Lady Shaw (2nd conditional)
If I didn’t have you – Randy Travis (2nd conditional)
If I didn’t have you – John Goodman & Billy Crystal (2nd conditional)
(Monsters Inc.)
If I had a million dollars – Barenaked Ladies (2nd conditional)
If I was your girlfriend – TLC (2nd conditional)
If I were your woman – Gladys Knight and the Pips (2nd conditional)
I would walk 500 miles – The Proclaimers (1st and 2nd conditionals)
I would walk 500 miles – Toy Dolls (1st and 2nd conditionals)
500 miles – Peter, Paul and Mary (1st conditional)
I don’t wanna talk about it – Rod Stewart / Indigo Girls (1stconditional / interrogative / negative)
If you don’t know me by now – Simply Red (1st conditional)
From me to you – The Beatles (1st conditional)
If – Bread (conditionals)
If I fell – The Beatles (1st and 2nd conditionals)
Life – Des’ree (superstitions)
Good luck charm – Elvis Presley (superstitions)
A little help from my friends – The Beatles / Joe Cocker (somebody/anybody – idiomatic expressions)
Since I don’t have you – Guns’n’Roses / The Skyliners (‘I don’t have anything’)
I have nothing - Whitney Houston (‘nothing’ / ‘nowhere’ etc)
Nobody does it better – Carly Simon (‘nobody + 3rd person singular)
The logical song – Supertramp (adjectives)
By my side – INXS (wish)
Ugly – Bon Jovi (wish)
I wish it would rain down – Phil Collins (wish / would)
I wish I could fly – Roxette (wish / could)
Manic Monday – Bangles (wish / mixed up verb tenses)
My lover’s gone – Dido (past perfect)
I will survive – Gloria Gaynor (simple past / passive voice)
Rome wasn’t built in a day – Morcheeba (passive voice)
Bald-headed men – Christine Lavin Gold et al. (‘I like men who...’)
I just want you – Ozzy Osbourne (prefixes / adjectives)
Kiss me – Sixpence None the Richer (to talk about kisses)
Don’t talk just kiss – Right Said Fred (to talk about kisses)

Advanced 1
Do you know where you are going to? – Diana Ross (indirect questions)
As long as you love me – Backstreet Boys (indirect questions)
Under the bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers (simple present)
Wedding Day – Bee Gees (to talk about wedding)
Uptown girl – Billy Joel / Westlife (simple present / present progressive)
Leaving on a jet plane – Frank Sinatra / Jewel (simple present / present progressive / to talk
about traveling)
Sweet child o’ mine – Guns’n’Roses / Sheryl Crow (childhood memories)
Just my imagination – Cranberries (used to / would)
When it’s over – Sugar Ray (used to)
Friends will be friends – Queen (friendship)
That’s what friends are for – Dionne Warwick (friendship)
You’ve got a friend – James Taylor / Carol King (friendship)
Misunderstood – Bon Jovi (video clip) (to talk about misunderstanding)
Deeper and deeper – Madonna (comparatives)
Survivor – Destiny’s Child (comparative)
Never as good as the first time – Sade (‘as...as’ / comparatives)
Superman’s song – Crash Test Dummies (to talk about cartoon heroes)
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – U2 (present perfect)
Have you ever really loved a woman – Bryan Adams (present perfect)
Head over feet – Alanis Morissette (present perfect)
What have I done to deserve this – Pet Shop Boys (present perfect / questions)
Another day in paradise – Phil Collins (present perfect progressive)
I can see clearly now – Bob Marley / Hothouse Flowers (to talk about the weather)
Zombie – The Cranberries (to talk about peace/‘it looks like’/’it sounds like’)

Advanced 2
As time goes by - ??????? (to talk about the movie ‘Casablanca’)
I love you – Martina McBride (adverbs)
Unbreak my heart – Toni Braxton (reported speech / to talk about love)
Don’t Speak – No Doubt (to talk about love)
Cry for help - Rick Astley (reported speech)
Love letters – Sinead O’Connor (to talk about love letters)
Are you still mad – Alanis Morissette (simple past)
One place – Everything but the girl (to talk about traveling / objects to carry with you)
Independent Women – Destiny’s Child (relative clauses: who)
You’re still the one – Shania Twain (relative clauses)
Always on the run – Lenny Kravitz (giving advice)
Thank you – Dido (past modals – advice: should)
Policy of truth – Depeche Mode (past modals – advice: should)
The day before you came – Abba (perfect modals)
How insensitive – Sting & Tom Jobim (must – logical conclusion)
Where you lead – Carol King (1st conditional)
Can’t buy me love – The Beatles (1st conditional)
Wherever you will go – The Calling (2nd conditional)
In these arms – Bon Jovi (2nd conditional)
More than words – Extreme (2nd conditional)
Another brick in the wall – Pink Floyd (to talk about education)
School’s out – Alice Cooper (to talk about education)
Teach your children – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (to talk about education)
I don’t like Mondays – Boomtown Rats (to talk about education)
Wish you were here – Pink Floyd (wish)
I feel so – Box Car Racer (wish)
Richard Cory – Simon and Garfunkel (wish / based on a poem)
If only – Rod Stewart (‘if only’)

High Advanced 1
Spending my time - Roxette (simple present/present progressive)
A thousand miles – Vanessa Carlton (simple present/present progressive)
Sailing – Rod Stewart (present progressive)
Penny Lane – The Beatles (use of ‘the’)
Pollution – Tom Lehrer (articles: a, the, Ø )
Used to love her – Guns’n’Roses (used to)
Don’t you want me – Human League (negative questions)
I’m with you – Avril Lavigne (future – will: negative questions)
How could an angel break my heart – Toni Braxton (simple past)
Don’t know why – Norah Jones (simple past / idiomatic expressions)
We are the champions – Queen (present perfect / contractions)
Whose bed have your boots been under – Shania Twain (present perfect / ‘whose’)
Last night I had the strangest dream – Simon and Garfunkel (past perfect)
Flinch – Alanis Morissette (verb tenses review)
In my life – The Beatles (memories)
Reach – Gloria Estefan (to talk about achievements)
Hand in my pocket – Alanis Morissette (adjectives)
Mediate – INXS (word formation)
Mystify – INXS (word formation)

High Advanced 2
Go west – Pet Shop Boys (discussion: lesson 1)
That I would be good – Alanis Morissette (‘even if’)
Crazy – Seal (‘unless’)
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies (simple past / short stories)
American Pie – Madonna (simple past)
Too many tears – Whitesnake (mixed up verb tenses)
Torn – Natalie Imbruglia (mixed up verb tenses)
Whenever, wherever – Shakira (gerund/past participle/infinitive with/without TO)
Change – Lisa Stansfield (1st and 2nd conditionals)
If I were you – K. D. Lang (2nd conditional)
If only I could turn back time - Acqua (if only / 3rd conditional)
One of us – Joan Osborne (conditionals)
It must’ve been love - Roxette (past modals - must)
Wishlist – Oasis (wish)
Wish I were you – Patty Smith (wish)
As long as you love me – Backstreet Boys (‘as long as’)
Affirmation – Savage Garden (beliefs / discussion)
Crazy little thing called love – Queen (spelling)
You can leave your hat on – Joe Cocker (phrasal verbs / imperative)
Destiny – Gloria Estefan (adverbs / phrasal verbs)
Money – Pink Floyd (to talk about economy / business)
Opportunities (Let’s make lots of money) – Pet Shop Boys (to talk about money / opportunities)
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Other themes/songs:

I’m so tired – The Beatles (‘so / such’ plus result clauses)
The strangest thing – George Michael (prepositions)
Galileo – Indigo Girls (prepositions)
Hotel California – Eagles (prepositions)
Every breath you take – The Police (future progress / collocation)
One of us – Joan Osbourne (‘what if’)
Ironic – Alanis Morissette (to talk about irony)
English Man in New York – Sting (differences between Am & Br English)
When I’m 64 – The Beatles (to talk about retirement)
Return to innocence – Enigma (video clip) (to talk about life / getting old)
Too young to die – Jamiroquai (to talk about peace / violence)
You’re so vain – Carly Simon (to talk about vanity)
Papa don’t preach – Madonna / Kelly Osbourne (story telling)
Devil and the deep blue sea – George Harrison (sayings)
Head over feet – Alanis Morissette (clichés)
It’s a big old goofy world – John Prine (clichés)
Beauty and the beast – Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson (rhyming words)
The Christmas song – Ella Fitzgerald (Christmas words)
Ebony and Ivory – Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson (to talk about racism)
Illegal alien – Genesis (to talk about racism)
Third world child – Johnny Clegg, Asimbonoga (to talk about racism)
New York Times – Cat Stevens (to talk about city life)
The times they are a-changin’ (to talk about modern times)
Message in a bottle – Police (to talk about loneliness)
Mother’s little helper – The Rolling Stones (to talk about escape / drugs)
She’s leaving home – The Beatles (to talk about escape)
Imagine – John Lennon (to talk about war and peace)
War – Bruce Springsteen (to talk about war and peace)
The needle and the damage done – Neil Young (to talk about drugs)