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l give some English songs for choice. Songs about love: Love Me Tender, Candle In The Wind, California Girls, Take Me Home, Country Road, Superstar, The Way We Were, Moon River, Right Here Waiting , Tie A Yellow Ribbon On The Old Oak Tree, Unchained Melody, I Will Always Love You, Love Story, River of Babylon, Hooked On The Memory Of You, Edelweiss, Speak Softly Love, Don’t Cry For Me , Argentina, Somewhere My Love , My Own True Love, My Heart Will Go On, Promise Don’t Come Easy, There You Will Be, etc. . Songs about peace : Imagine, When A Child Is Born, Heal The World, and the very famous one sung by a group of singers--We Are The World: “There comes a time when we need a certain call when the world must come together as one there are people dying ,oh it’s time to lend a hand ```” Songs about encouragement: Hero, Reach, Why Worry, Sing, Let It Be, Sailing, etc. . Next, according to the style: English songs can be categorized into many ones according to different styles of songs: the blues, jazz, rock and roll, country songs, classics, pops, songs from movies, Christmas carols, etc . . Last, according to level of difficulty: Some English songs are longer and maybe more difficult, so sometimes it is necessary to choose those that are suitable for learning. People of different ages had better choose different English songs. Children’s songs: Colors Of The Wind, My Golden Sun, My Little Table, etc.; Adults’ songs: Eyes On Me, Yesterday Once More, Big Big World, etc.. 5.2 When listening to and learning English songs alone When an English learner listens to and learns English songs alone, he/she can follow the following steps: Step1. Listen for the first time and try to think about the theme of the song. Step2. Listen for the second time and the third time; try to make out every word and phrase as well as possible, and at the same time pay attention to word pronunciation and sound linking. Step3. Listen for the fourth time by looking at the lyric of the song and this time focus on the rhythm, especially the words that stress falls on. Step4. Sing the song by following the tape or MTV; feel and learn the rhythm. Step5. Sing the song to the music according to the similar characteristics of music and the English language without looking at the lyric. Step6. Read out aloud the whole lyric, and especially pay much attention to some good words, phrases and sentences and try to learn them by heart. Step7.Sing the song with full passion as similar to the original singing as possible and try to sing the whole song correctly and fluently. Step8. Evaluate or retell the song; express inner feelings or introduce the song to others. These steps above are suggested in order to improve English pronunciation, to master English rhythm, and then to improve spoken English. Certainly, to make more progress, large amounts of listening, imitating and practicing is needed. It is better to take off a little time from the schedule to practice earnestly every other day, because success often results from persistence. Here is an example: As is known to all, the United States has fifty-one states except Washington D.C., and many of the names of these states are not so easy to pronounce accurately and remember well. While Susan Nipp’s song The United States can give some help because it contains all of the fifty-one states in the lyric: “The United States, the United States, I love my country the United States, There’s Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Ark