Tom Waits – The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) Note: This song is about being drunk. Activity type: vocabulary, prediction, discussion, gap fill. Time:40 mins. Note: This is taken from Tom Waits’ 1976 album Small Change. Waits later stated “There ain’t nothin’ funny about a drunk. I was really starting to believe that there […]

The Kinks – Come Dancing Activity types: verb conjugation, gap fill, vocabulary. Grammar: Past Simple, would, used to. Time: 30 mins. Note: Released in 1983, this was the Kinks’ biggest hit in almost 20 years, going to number 6 in the American singles chart and number 12 in the U.K.  It is a nostalgic look