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TIPS FOR USING SONGS IN CLASS
KATHIUSKA MURCIA CORTES
If you can commit to using music once a week, you may soon see the benefits, and realize that you want to do it more often and in a variety of ways.
Here are some activities for you to try:
Focus it
• Have them think about the title of the song, in groups or pairs. Find a picture that relates to the subject of
the song and have students make guesses about it.
Highlight it
Get students to circle, underline or highlight specific words or word categories.
Stop it
• Students must shout STOP any time they hear one of the new words.
• You could also stop the song before a word you want them to guess or detail.
Lip sync itLip sync it
Have students lip sync the song before a team of judges in a Class Idol show. This
allows them to become familiar with
the words, rhythm, stress and intonation
before actually singing the words
out loud.
Strip itCut the song into strips and give each student one strip to memorize. Students then organize themselves in the right order, speak the song and then listen and check.
When I see your face there's not a thing… that I would change… …Cause you're amazing Just the way you are… …And when you smile the whole world stops… …and stares for a while …Cause girl you're amazing Just the way you are.
Question it
• What is the best explanation for this: "I love you just the way you are when not being just
the way you are"?
Gap it
You can prepare a gapped version of the lyrics and let students complete them before listening and then check afterwards.
Draw itDraw it
Get students to draw or collage the song and compare the visualizations in class
REFERENCES AND CIBRGRAPHY
• Lems, Kirsten, Using Music in the Adult ESL Classroom, ERIC Digest, 2001.
• Medina, Suzanne L, The Effect of Music on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition, ‘National Network for Early Language Learning’, Vol 6-3, 1993.
• Murphy, T (1992), The discourse op pop songs, TESOL Quarterly 26”(4), 770-774.
• http:// www.englishclub.com/teaching-tips/music-classroom.htm
• http://www.eslbase.com/articles/songs • http://www.eslbase.com/articles/pop-songs
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