LIVEN UP CLASSROOM WITH MUSIC My Workshop at Bilgi University In the session, I talked about why we should use songs in EFL classes. Music is everywhere in our lives. We listen to songs when we are happy, angry, sad or when we need inspiration or when we want to relax. We go out of our homes with our songs, we travel with them, we wait with them, we shop with them. So we can teach with them. Music can be used to teach grammar : at the presentation stage of a grammar point or while reviewing listening : gap fill exercises, matching to teach listening for gist or detail vocabulary: to teach or increase vocab by asking your students to replace the words with a synonym, antonym or a near synonym. reading: songs are authentic texts and they can be used for comprehension, discussion and teaching culture writing: you can use songs for teaching writing. While doing all these we can always use web 2.0 to motivate our students so they can add their own content to the material. Musical Reactions Play an instrumental piece. 1.
Shotcut Lyric Race Here is a fun activity I’ve learned recently which can be used with songs. It sounds it will work well with young learners yet sometimes the teenagers also would like to do something like this. • Choose some words from the song you will use in the class and prepare word cards. Stick the words to the board. • Divide students into two teams (or groups if you have a big class). Work with the words for a while. • When the class is ready tell them each team will stand in a line in front of the board. • Play the song. • When a student at the front of the line hears a word in the song, s/he runs to the board and takes the card for the team. • Game continues until all the words have been removed from the board. • The team with the most cards wins. • Give each team a copy of the lyrics with blanks. image credit :
Musical Chair Homographs Printable (1st - 3rd Grade) Highlights Earth Day Kids love hearing about the Earth and ways we can be better to our environment! We've gathered some great resources to help you celebrate Earth Day (April 22) with your class. Some of our most popular activities include this Pollution Matching Worksheet, Recycling Videos and Activities, and Renewable and Non-renewable Energy Worksheet, Recycled Art Lesson Plan, and a Trash & Climate Change Activities Packet! Videos Interested in using different types of media in your classroom? April Calendar of Events April is full of events that you can incorporate into your standard curriculum. Coding & Computer Science Introduce your students to basic coding and computer science!
20+ Activities and Resources for Teaching Language Through Song Lyrics Music is the soul of language. ~ Max Heindel I am very interested in what motivates students to learn English. In conversations outside my classroom, I often ask language learners how and why they learned English. No matter what the age, I have found music to be a very powerful motivational tool for learning a language. For example, a friend of mine from Korea told me she learned English by studying the lyrics to her favorite English songs. helps students learn language and even grammar in chunksis all around us. 10+ Activity Ideas and Resources It’s Music in Our Schools Month! Modernize the Lyrics Learners modernize the lyrics to a popular song from the past, then create a music video. Teach Chunks of Grammar Specific songs are great for pinpointing difficult grammar. Create a Lip Dub In a lip dub, students learn the lyrics to a song then record a video in which they mouth the words to the lyrics as the music plays. Drop the Lyrics Dissect the Lyrics to My Favorite Song Soundtrack
The Best Online Karaoke Sites For English Language Learners I’ve used music a lot with English Language Learners. Singing feels much less threatening to many who are learning a new language. Karaoke is a good language-development activity, and there are quite a few karaoke sites on the Internet. In order to make it on this list, a site has to be available free-of-charge (or at least some of its resources have to be free), easy-to-use, require no download, and allow students — either alone or in a group — to record themselves singing. There are only a few sites that meet that criteria. SMS Tunes is another similar site. Sing Snap is the newest addition to this list. KaraSongs doesn’t allow students to record themselves, but they have tons of great videos showing the lyrics to popular songs with instrumental accompaniment. Red Karaoke The Karaoke Channel You might also be interested in The Best Music Websites For Learning English and The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English. Related Sing Snap Joins The Best Karaoke List December 22, 2008 In "talking"
The Best Music Websites For Learning English Check out my New York Times post for English Language Learners focuses on using music for language development and includes a student interactive, video, and teaching ideas. I use music a lot in my teaching of English Language Learners. I thought people might find it helpful to see which sites I believe to be the best out there to help teach English — Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced — through music. My students have certainly found them helpful. Music is a familiar, fun, and engaging tool to use in learning a second language. This is latest of my “The Best…” series, also known as Websites Of The Year. You might also be interested in an interview I did about using music in the ESL/EFL classroom. Lastly, you might find these other “The Best…” lists useful: Here are what I believe to be the best music websites for learning English: The Music Page from the Language Guide, the best audio/picture dictionary on the Web for English Language Learners. Here’s a new site called Lyrics Mode.
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Conversation lesson - Music Introduction This lesson plan for teachers of older teenage and adult students level B1 is about Music. Students will develop their fluency through a range of speaking activities. During this skills lesson you might want to use background music where facilities allow. You will also need some samples of music, not necessarily just in English, but a variety of different genres Topic Music Level Time 2 hours Aims To develop fluency through a range of speaking activitiesTo introduce related vocabulary Materials Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure. Download lesson plan 170k pdf Worksheets: worksheets which can be printed out for use in class. Find someone whoMusic choicesRole play Download worksheets 157k pdf The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only.
Classroom Lyrics TEN tips for rewriting lyrics: 1.) Choose a song that you know (a current song, an "oldie but a goodie", or even a nursery rhyme!) Check out our monthly CHALLENGES if you need help getting started! 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.)