PRESENT PERFECT SONGS

I found this wonderful material on the internet. Learning with songs is always a good choice if you are intriducing a new subject or if you need to review some language points

Here we have a collection of 16 songs to practice the form of the Present Perfect. I have adapted this material and created a fill-in-the-gaps exercise and a hotpotatoes cloze exercise where you will be able to listen to the songs.

present perfect songs

Gap-fill exercise
created with hotpotatoes by fernandobraña

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

1. Michael Bublé:
And I know someday that it’ll all turn out
You’ll make me work
So we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid that I’ll give
So much more than I get
I just you yet

2. Bryan Adams:
When you love a woman
then tell her that she’s really wanted
When you love a woman then tell her that she’s the one
’cause she needs somebody to tell her that it’s gonna last forever
So tell me really –
really really ever a woman?

3. Rod Stewart:
I wanna know
the rain?
Coming down on a sunny day

4. Charlene:
I can see so much of me
Still living in your eyes
Won’t you share a part of a weary heart
That a million lives
I’ to Nice and the isle of Greece
When I sipped champagne on a yatch
I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed them what I’ve got
I’ve been undressed by kings
and I’ some things that a woman ain’t supposed to see
I’ to paradise but I’ve never been to me

5. Madonna:
I’ in love with you
I guess you’ve always known it’s true
You took my love for granted why
The show is over say good bye

6. Barry Manilow:
I’ alive forever
And I wrote the very first song
I put the words and the melodies together
I am music and I write the songs

7. U2:
I the highest mountains
I through the fields
Only to be with you
I have run
I
I these city walls
Only to be with you
But I sill what I’m looking for

8. Carpenters:
I’ so many places in my life and time
I’ a lot of songs
I’ some bad rhyme
I’ out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we’re alone now and I’m singing this song for you

9. James Taylor:
I’ fire and I’ve seen rain
I’ sunny days that I thought would never end
I’ lonely times when I thought I could not find a friend
But I always thought I’d see you again

10. Paula Cole:
I will do the laundry
If you pay all the bills
Where is my John Wayne
Where is my prairie son
Where is my happy ending?
Where all the cowboys ?

11. Barbra Streisand:
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or time every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me would we
Could we

12. Elton John:
So excuse me forgetting
But these things I do
You see I’ if they’re green or they’re blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen
And you can tell everybody this is your song

13. SOS Band:
My friends say I’m lucky
To have someone as good as you
My love’s understanding
Understanding how to hold on to you
After all that we’ through
Time won’t change the way I feel about you
Out of all the loves before
You’re the finest I’ve ever known

14. ABBA:
I don’t wanna talk
About things we’ve gone through
Though it’s hurting me
Now it’s history
I’ all my cards
And that’s what you’ too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play

15. Rod Stewart:
I you lately that I love you?
I you there’s no one else above you?
You feel my heart with gladness
Take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles that’s what you do

16. Eva Cassidy:
You’
That sparkle in your eyes is gone
Your smile is just a careless yawn
It’s all over know
You’