“Let’s get loud, turn the music up!”

“Sing, move and dance in the English Classroom!”

The 30 Goals for Educators Maria Bossa

July 2015

Background

● Reasons for using songs in the classroom...… help create a friendly and cooperative atmosphere… offer insights into the culture, stories and myths of different societies… offer a rich background, a social and historical context to language learning

Dale T. Griffee

Hot and Cold - Katy Perry

● Adjectives (opposites)● TPR activities● Fill in the blanks

Animals

The Rhino Song● Picture description● Location in a map - Africa● Parts of the body - animals● General comprehension questions ● Free drawing of a rhino

The Elephant song● Watch the video and exploit it - name

of animals (what animals Ss see)● What activities those animals do● Verb “can” - affirmative & negative● Create a new version of the song

The Facebook Song

1st Activity - Simple Present● As Ss are “digital natives” they have

to explain their parents what Social Networks are

● Ss are members of FB and have to explain to their parents what FB is

● Ss explain what they do in FB● General questions about the song

2nd Activity - Simple Past● It’s the year 2050 and Ss have to

explain their grandchildren what Social Networks were

● Explain what Facebook was● Listen to the song and fill the blanks

with the missing words● Tell what Ss did in Facebook● General questions about the song

Where is the love - Black Eyed

Peas ● Look up some words in the dictionary - terrorism /

discrimination…● Find out information about the CIA / FBI / KKK / Al Qaeda● Poster creation: glue pictures related to the topics from the song

and explain each picture in no more than 5 lines

Letter writing & Punctuation

Only you - The Platters ● Tch hands in the lyrics in letter layout

leaving the “Dear” section in blank● Ss listen to the song and think who

they would send that letter to● Work with letter writing format● Ss write a letter

Groovy kind of love - Phil Collins● Tch hands in the lyrics in text layout

without punctuation marks● Ask questions like “Does it have any

sense?”, “How would you improve it?”

● Match some words with their meanings

Adulthood - Retiring

● Growing up● Retiring● The Bucket List● “My way” (Frank Sinatra) vs.”Non, je ne regrette rien” (Edith Piaf)

Thank you very much!!! :)

Hello, Goodbye - The Beatles

Hello, Goodbye – The Beatles

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