Wouldn’t you like to be listening to the latest hit on the radio and find out that you are able to understand the lyrics?Wow!!! 
Don’t you, every now and then, sing along even though you can only remember some of the words from the chorus and you don’t have the slightest clue about what it means? I’m sure you do! We have all been there!
This is a new idea to use in my classes to help students learn and use new words and although it requires some preparation , it won’t take too much time off my classes; I’m always short of time, aren’t you?
Steps :
♥Orally , introduce the word you want students to learn, giving examples and asking them to infer the meaning. In the case of the verb “to try” I might need to teach the structure : Try+inf
♥Choose a song that contains the word or words you want to teach
♥Crop the video with tubechop; you don’t want to play the whole video.
♥ Students listen to the cropped video and identify when, in the song, the highlighted word(s) has been used.
♥ Second time: students do a fill- in- the- gaps exercise or any other king of exercise that takes my fancy.
♥ Third time: students sing along
♥ HOMEWORK: Now, very important, students need to go home and write a sentence containing the highlighted word(s) . Ask for vonlunteers to translate the cropped song .
My Fill in the Blanks
DESIRE,DIES,GET UP, SOMETIMES,SOMEONE’S, LIES,WONDER,JUST
Ever _____ about what he’s doing
How it all turned to ______
__________ I think that it’s better to never ask why
Where there is ____
There is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame
____ bound to get burned
But ______ because it burns
Doesn’t mean you’re gonna _____
You’ve gotta _____ and try try try
Gotta ……
say that this is unusual weather for this time of the year. So, if you are considering holidaying in this part of the world, don’t cross it off just yet; the weather must definitely improve this week ( it can’t get any worse).
Happy Valentine’s Day Week! Love is in the air….and all that!
show has been a big success worldwide. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about The Voice is a singing competition that consists of a blind audition where four coaches (famous singers ) select the members of their teams, a battle phase and then the final, where the audience selects The Voice . It started in The Netherlands like two years ago and since then the format has been sold to many countries where it has also been a big success.
The idea for this activity came from the French teacher in my high school, Yolanda (see picture). Just by chance she commented on how much fun their students had just had doing this activity and right away I asked her to borrow her idea for my English class.
as I’ve already mentioned in one of my previous posts , Unit 1 of my pre-intermediate course is about Music.
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I sing at the top of my voice and I enjoy it so much that sometimes I even dance while driving! But it even gets worse because while I am listening to music, very often, I focus on the grammar or the lyrics and if I am teaching something specific and I feel like my students need a break , then I make a point of not giving up till I find the right song .So much for concentration on the road!
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occasion in my life when I was given a present or invited to a romantic dinner whatsoever .( If you are reading this and you are one of my ex-boyfriends , don’t hesitate to send me an email if I have forgotten what you did for me on that day.Don’t get pissed off , I am sure it was beautiful and it meant the world for me).
