Music

Songs

Prepositions of place

1. Demonstration of prepositions (Teacher model)
2. Watching video (children associate lesson learned from teacher)
3. Singing together (pronunciation)
4. Teacher stops the video (students guess the right preposition)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJYhjGyWTU

Learning English with songs

Summarizing Song Lyrics

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2afwr1tocm0cwh/8.%20Screen%20-%20Don%27t%20you%20worry%20child%20-%20IIC%20-%20with%20pictures%205.wmv

What - Where - Who - How - When

1. Retell the story with your own words. Use pictures if you can. See the example above. Use your blog or a Power Point Presentation.
2. Summarize your favourite song !
3. Make a Glossary (English - English)

You can start like this:

This song is about a teenager who memorizes his childhood.......

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Glossary:

childhood - the condition of being a child; the period of life before puberty (wordreference.com)




Learn how to fly by Foofighters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0

The Song is about the man who doesn’t want more lies and he wants a sign to save his life when he’s flying and he wants to learn to fly.

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 http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/learn-english-with-songs.html

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Do the following tasks:

1. Choose a song you like
2. Listen to the song
3. Investigate unknown vocabulary
4. Do the exercises
5. Analyze the grammar

http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/buscar.asp?eje=30&page=1&nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=song&orderby=#thetop


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Why use songs and music with teenagers ?

• Teenagers like songs and music and have strong personal preferences about what they like
• Songs often include a lot of repetition that helps to make language memorable (listening)
• Songs contain chunks of language that children can remember and use (vocabulary, phrases)
• Songs often contain current usages of language that are meaningful to teenagers
• Songs are sung at a reasonably fast speed containing natural phonologicalfeatures
• Music can help promote a relaxed, stress-free atmosphere in the classroom
• Music can stimulate strong feelings that can be channelled to enrich the language learning experience 
• Music opens a way to practise (grammar, vocabulary) by doing Gap Filling exercises

Project: My favourite group/song

Instructions:

1. Present the name, birthdate, country and favourite song of the artist

Billy Idol / 1955 / British / Eyes without a face

2. Talk about the artist (5 interesting facts)

Did you know that...?

Don't copy !!! Summarize and Paraphrase :)

Example:

- A series of music videos for songs such as "White Wedding", "Rebel Yell" and "Eyes Without a Face" made him one of the first MTV stars.

 - He was one of the first MTV stars

Idol was involved in a serious motorbike accident which nearly cost him a leg on 6 February 1990 at the corner of Gordon Avenue and Fountain Avenue in Hollywood.^[14]He was hit by a car when he ran a stop sign while riding home from the studio one night, requiring a steel rod to be placed in his leg

- He had an accident with his motorbike. He almost lost one leg. 

In 1993, Idol released Cyberpunk. Regarded as experimental, it was recorded in a home studio using a Macintosh computer, which was a new concept at the time. Idol recorded the album with guitarist Mark Younger-Smith and producer Robin Hancock. Special editions of the album were issued with a floppy disc which contained a screensaver. It was the first album which listed the e-mail address of the artist (idol@well.sf.ca.us, which is now inactive) in its booklet.

- Idol's music album was the first album which contained an email back in 1993. This email is now inactive. 


2. Make a pictionary from new vocabulary
3. Present chunks of language
4. Prepare a Gap filling Quiz

http://www.toolsforenglish.com/

Working with songs

Topic:  Gerunds and Infinitives


1. Students choose their favourite song

Example "The lazy song" by Bruno Mars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLexgOxsZu0

2. Get the lyrics from the Internet

http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-lazy-song-lyrics-bruno-mars.html


3. Listen to the song and read the lyrics
4. Understand the lyrics (dictionary !!!)
5. Download the video from youttube (ss)

Example: http://sswww.youtube.com/watch?v=fLexgOxsZu0

6. Upload the video to Windows Movie Makers and add the lyrics
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN36JM8l52g

8. Now sing along the song reading the lyrics
This helps your pronunciation :)

9. Finally do your own online quiz with

http://learningapps.org/

Project 1

1. Choose your favourite song
2. Get the lyrics from the Internet
3. Analyze the lyrics
4. Retell the story using pictures
5. Prepare a close test by using

http://learningapps.org/


Example:

Bruno Mars - Grenade
http://learningapps.org/display?v=p11cskf1t&preview=1