Songs

• Top Ten Aussie Songs (National Geographic)

•  The Choir of Hard Knocks (@cioccas)

• Simple Plan & K'naan - Summer Paradise by a Canadian band about Australia! (@cioccas)

•  "Watch Over Me" by Bernard Fanning (Megan Yucel)

•  Angus & Julia Stone songs (@eslkazzyb)

•  Louie The Fly - Australian theme; mostly simple present and present continuous sentences; lots of useful words and idioms; easy melody; catchy. (Laura McFarlane)

• "I Still Call Australia Home" - Fairly simple vocab, and a real tear-jerker when they perform it. (Vicky Bos)

•  Truly Madly Deeply (Savage Garden) - if you can stand it, goes down a treat. is one they usually all know. It's not my cup of tea, but they enjoy it. (Vicky Bos)

• Goyte - At Radio Australia we did a story for English learners in China about him and his music and it got a good response from the audience. (Julia Scott)

• 'Streets of Your Town' by the Go-Betweens is a favourite - great to get the class singing the 'Shi-i-i-ine' parts! Be prepared to explain the "And this town is full of battered wives" line, though... (@elkysmith) 

•  John Farnham: You're the voice -- this would work great if you took your class for swimming lessons with an 80s theme ... seriously, maybe something from INXS? (Andrew Pollard)

•   'Surf City Limits' by the Fauves - catchy tune with a good 'sun smart' message :-) (@elkysmith) 

•  'T-Shirt Weather' by the Lucksmiths - 2 mins, catchy, pretty straightforward lyrics (@elkysmith)

•    'To Her Door' by Paul Kelly - great for a straightforward narrative (@elkysmith)

• Sing With Me from Urban Lyrebirds
  Each book is a collection of original songs and accompanying exercises for students learning English.  Each song is followed by five language exercises: vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, reading and writing, and conversation.
• Sing With Me Book 1 for elementary learners
• Sing With Me Book 2 for beginner & post-beginner learners
• ... Book 3 for Intermediate learners due in 2014