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. I thought it would be a good topic for a short “The Best…” list. 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. A link to their performance can then be posted on a student or teacher website. 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 Related Sing Snap Joins The Best Karaoke List In "talking"
ESL Lesson Plans and Resources on Music March is Music in our Schools Month! There has never been a better excuse to get up and dance with your students. To encourage you to bring music into your classroom throughout the year, we’ve created a collection of useful links. These links are full of ideas for using music in the classroom. You will find lesson plans, teacher reflections, books, webinars, website reviews, and more. Thank you to all of our teacher pals for suggesting links to add to this page. Music-Themed Lesson Plans Check out our Famous People section for lesson plans on Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon. Check out our Famous Things section for lesson plans on Jazz, Hip Hop, and Rock n’ Roll. We have Discussion Starters lesson plans on Talent and Music Piracy, and Mini-Debates on File Sharing and Live 8 Concerts. Flashcards Are you looking for images related to music? Authentic Materials and WarmUps The Red Carpet
Music Teach with Music & Songs “Music is the universal language of mankind.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Music appeals to students of all ages and is a great way to learn. Language learners remember vocabulary through hand gestures, while singing songs (Total Physical Response). They can memorize important facts by singing songs about a certain moment in history. Language learners enhance their English speaking, listening, reading and writing skills by exploring and reciting songs. Bookmarks Find the tools listed above and many more resources in the bookmarks below.
Listen and Repeat Podcast: Improve Your English Pronunciation Listen and Repeat Podcast Listen and Repeat to Learn Verb Conjugation and Pronunciation Listen and Repeat to Learn Vocabulary and Sentence Patterns Adjectives for People (1:59) I also made this audio into a video.Video of Listen & Repeat: Adjectives and Sentence Patterns Notes Also Try These "Listen and Repeat" Videos More Also see the daily Listen and Repeat to Improve Your Intonation, Rhythm and Pronunciation. This page is part of Interesting Things for ESL Students.
Learning English with Songs 865 Flares Twitter 55 Facebook 734 Google+ 6 LinkedIn 70 inShare70 865 Flares × Learning a Foreign Language Have you tried learning a foreign language as an adult? What were some of your experiences? Learn to Relax and Relax to Learn Who is Jason R. Jason R. Jason’s Youtube Channel Jason’s Specialties Jason specialises in all things connected ESL and EFL, K-12 curriculum and materials design, adult education curriculum and materials design, curriculum and materials for TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, CAE, FCE, GED, SAT, GRE, and GMAT, educational music (ColloTunes), educational card games (ColloCards). Jason’s Approach to Language Learning Jason’s approach includes the 3Rs: Relax, Repeat, Remember. Credo 1: “Let’s build a base to support higher thought and hold on to all of the things that we’re taught.Credo 2: “You’ll learn without looking when you stop feeling bored and stressed; having fun is when you learn the best.” WizIQ Conversation (WC) with Jason R. Jason R. Learn Through Songs
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. 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. The English Language Listening Lab Online, also known as ELLO, has a good Music page .
English Listening Lesson on School Try the online quiz, reading, listening, and activities on grammar, spelling and vocabulary for this lesson on School. Click on the links above or see the activities below this article: Mail this lesson to friends and teachers. Most kids _____________________ school. Most kids say they don’t like school. Most say kids school like don’t they. DISCUSSION (Write your own questions) Write five GOOD questions about school in the table. When you have finished, interview other students. Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Write about school for 10 minutes. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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