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Burning Heart � Survivor
This was the theme song to Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone. Survivor wrote "Eye Of The Tiger," which was the theme to Rocky III, and Stallone was thrilled with the result.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 19
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Rock and Roll All Nite � Kiss
Originally released on their 1975 album Dressed to Kill. It was released as the A-side of their fifth single, with the album track "Getaway." The studio version of the song peaked at No. 57 on the Billboard singles chart, besting the band�s previous charting single, "Kissin� Time" (#79). A subsequent live version, released as a single in October 19...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London.
Due to numerous line-up changes, the only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood. Despite band founder Peter Green naming the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood, McVie) from John Mayall�s Bluesbreake...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Every Time I Look At You � Kiss
This song is from the album Revenge, the 16th studio album by Kiss, released on May 19, 1992. It was the band�s first album after the death of long-time drummer Eric Carr in November 1991. Carr was replaced by Eric Singer. It was Kiss� first album since the 1979 Dynasty to reach Top 10 in United States, although it would quickly fall off the charts...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Director Jonathan Demme used this to open his movie Philadelphia. Starring Tom Hanks, it was about a lawyer dying of AIDS. Demme met Springsteen in 1985 on the video shoot for "Sun City," but had not seen him since. Demme first cut the title sequence of Philadelphia to "Southern Man" and asked Neil Young to write a song like it for the movie. Young...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 55
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Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker [Jennifer Warnes]
This is the theme song to the movie An Officer And A Gentleman. It won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1983.
The entire process - from idea to inclusion in the movie and release - took only 30 days. Will Jennings wrote the lyrics. He�s responsible for the words to many famous songs, including "My Heart Will Go On," "Looks Like We Made It," and...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
This song is about the detached feeling most people go through life with. It is a commentary on how people cope with the world by withdrawing physically, mentally, or emotionally. In the commentary of The Wall, Roger Waters states that the inspiration was Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett and his ordeal with schizophrenia.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 119
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Nemo-Nightwish
Tuomas Holopainen, the composer, has stated that the title is Latin for "nobody" and the song is based on his occasional feelings of being lost, longing for the past and feeling nameless. This contradicts speculations that the song simply borrows on a Nemo character of an earlier work, such as J. Verne�s Captain Nemo, Homer�s Ulysses alias Nemo, C....
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman
Baby Can I Hold You" is the third single from Tracy Chapman, released in late 1988. The song succeeded in reaching the top fifty in the United States
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Against all odds � Phil Collins
Oral Practice
Take a look at me now
Take a good look at me now
Take a look at the test now
Take a look at her
Take a look at my work
How can I just let you walk away?
How can I just look at you now?
How can you just walk always from me?
How can you just leave me?
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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