Trivium Home School · The Muses

Unit 8 · Modals

Can, could, must, might, should: ability, deduction, advice and regret. The songs are in order, from the easiest to the hardest.

A2–B2 · 16 songs (1 free) · All the Muses

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A2 · FREE

Anything You Can Do

Grammar: Can and can’t; could

Annie Get Your Gun

The great competition.

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A2–B1 · PREMIUM

Should I Do It

Grammar: Should I…? ought to, had better, If I were you

The Pointer Sisters

A girl who can’t decide.

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B1 · PREMIUM

I Should Have Known Better

Grammar: Should have, shouldn’t have

The Beatles

A happy mistake, and a useful expression.

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B1 · PREMIUM

Father and Son

Grammar: Should, have to, mustn’t; imperatives

Cat Stevens

Two generations, one conversation.

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B1 · PREMIUM

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

Grammar: Can, could, be able to, managed to

Bee Gees

Brothers reconciled after a quarrel.

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B1 · PREMIUM

She

Grammar: May, might, could; maybe or may be

Elvis Costello

A woman who is a mystery.

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B1 · PREMIUM

Hold On

Grammar: Imperatives; must, have to, should

Odetta

Keep your hand on the plough, and don’t look back.

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B1 · PREMIUM

The Way You Do the Things You Do

Grammar: Could have been; the way you…; like, as… as

UB40

The Motown song of playful compliments.

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B1 · PREMIUM

I Wanna Get Next to You

Grammar: Can and could in questions; have to; wanna, gonna, gotta

Rose Royce

What can I do to be noticed?

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B1–B2 · PREMIUM

It Must Have Been Love

Grammar: Must have, can’t have, might have

Roxette

Reasoning about the past.

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B1–B2 · PREMIUM

Gotta Serve Somebody

Grammar: Have to, have got to, must, need to

Bob Dylan

Everybody has to choose.

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B1–B2 · PREMIUM

The Day Before You Came

Grammar: Must have from habits; can’t have, might have

ABBA

An ordinary day, worked out from habits.

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B1–B2 · PREMIUM

I Might Be Wrong

Grammar: Might, may, could; might have, could have

Radiohead

A light in the dark, and a man who isn’t sure.

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B1–B2 · PREMIUM

Resistance

Grammar: Could be, mustn’t, should have been

Muse

A secret love in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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B1–B2 · PREMIUM

What Could Have Been Love

Grammar: Could have, should have, might have; will never

Aerosmith

A power ballad of a missed chance.

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B1–B2 · PREMIUM

Maggie May

Grammar: Should, could, wish + past perfect

Rod Stewart

A young man who knows he should be back at school.

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