Practise inversions with this beautiful ESL song

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How many examples of INVERSION can you fit into one song? This one has nine examples of inversion with non-limiting adverbials as well as an inverted conditional, because advanced-level students also need to have fun in the ESL classroom from time to time!

Song: Never would I...
Artist: Alan Smith Robertson

Topic: Inversions
Level: Advanced (C1)
Duration: Approx. 15-20 minutes

- Never would I have...
- Never could I have...
- Barely had she said...
- No sooner was she...
- Only now do I understand...
- Little did they think...
- Had I known...
- Not once did I think...
- Rarely do we ever get...

If you use this song in your ESL class, please tell me how it went in the comments section, and if there's any English grammar or vocabulary you'd like me to write a song for in the future, just ask and I'll see what I can do... or maybe I can suggest a song that already exists.

About me:
My name's Alan Smith Robertson, and I've been an ESL teacher in Spain since 1994. As a teacher I'm always looking for new exciting ways to teach my students English, and one of my most popular ideas is writing songs which are specifically designed to practise the grammar or vocabulary most commonly studied in the ESL classroom.

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