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to the blues, then to jazz and from the rhythmic blues to modern rock music, all of them represent the inner rules of English rhythm. The styles of these English songs at the same time correspond to a great extent to the exaggerating methods or techniques of pronouncing. Here is a simple song in which sound linking is reflected: Come and See My Family: “`Come and `see my `family, ︶ `Under the `old `apple `tree! ︶ `This is my `father. ︶ `How do you do? `Sit down and `have a `cup of `tea with me.” ︶︶︶ In this song, the technique of sound linking is so obvious that we can make use of it to achieve fluency that is an important factor in spoken English. 3.3 English songs are a source of aural input English songs are a kind of especially good listening material. Compared with other English listening materials, they are more interesting, motivating, attractive and unforgettable. They are never dull. As is mentioned in this paper, listening is closely related to speaking, and more language input is helpful for more effective language output. Listening to English songs as often as possible is in some way good for the improvement of speaking ability. In a word, the ultimate purpose of listening to more English songs is to improve speaking ability. 3.4 English songs contain amounts of language knowledge English songs contain a lot of language knowledge that is quite useful for spoken English. This mainly reflects in words, phrases, idioms, expressions, sentence patterns, and also “spoken grammar”[18]. Actually, spoken language is not merely a variant of “correct” written forms. Rather, the spoken language, particularly the interactive discourse of native speakers, incorporates forms that are widespread and consistent in usage, and most importantly, meaningful. Due to the dynamic interactive nature of the spoken language, many of these features are not or cannot be realized in more standardized written forms. In spoken English, we can find the widespread utilization of ellipsis. For example, we can often hear sentences in English songs like “Don’t know why, don’t know why…” which has no subject. The subject (maybe “I”) is left out here. This kind of ellipsis phenomenon occurs frequently in oral communication. As we know, in English study, there are so many words, expressions, and even rules of spoken grammar to remember and then to use freely and correctly; and usually they seem to be so dull or difficult. In spite of this, for effective oral communication, it is still quite necessary to master as many as possible. Then learning English songs may be a not bad choice, because lyrics of English songs contain a large vocabulary, sentence patterns and spoken grammar. Besides, words in English songs are often simple and vivid, and most of them are those used in daily life of the western people. As for sentences, most of them are short, concise and authentic. For example, in the song Casablanca, there is a common expression that is extremely useful: “as time goes by”; and in the song Yesterday Once More, we can find this phrase: “look back on” which means “recall”. Next, there are many similar expressions that have the same pragmatic function. If we know many, we can avoid lacking variety in our oral expressing. For example, in the song Easy Come, Easy Go sung by George Strait, there are many useful daily expressions about saying goodbye: “Goodbye”, “Farewell”, “So long”, “Good Luck”, “Wish you well”, “