How can you use Songs in ELT?

It all depends on the age group, but I have had quite some success with the following technique:

1. take a song that you know is suitable (vocabulary/grammar/context) for your students. So no "Cream" by Prince if they are younger than 18 :)

2. copy the lyrics and leave holes whenever there is a difficult word or an interesting phrase.

3. hand out the partial lyrics and ask your students to listen to the song (once or twice). The third time they can then write the missing words.

4. Compare and correct together with your students.