Are You
Learning English? These Songs May Help
There
are many songs to learn English like Tom’s Diner, Lemon Tree, Truly Madly
Deeply. Paul Cifuentes said that Bab Marley’s songs are amazing for teaching
and Joseph Delea said songs by Johnny Cash have always worked in the classroom.
And this song is for children like we will Rock You and Beautiful Girls.
Teachers can use songs to teach students because when they listen to their
favorite songs, they feel happy and it motivate them to study. So, teachers
should choose their favorite songs to teach them.
There are many other ways songs can be
used in ESL classrooms to consolidate what students have already learnt. It’s
very good to practice listening skill by using songs.
using songs
in the esl classroom
It's great to
use songs in the class, if only to do something a little different. But beyond
using them solely to give your students some 'light relief', there are many
other ways songs can be used in ESL classrooms to consolidate what students
have already learnt.
Here are some
ideas for the use of songs in the ESL class:
Filling in
the blanks
Songs are
often used in this way in the ESL classroom. You can carefully choose which
words to blank out depending on what lexical area you want your students to
work on.
Listening
Comprehension
Instead of
doing your usual listening comprehension out of the course books, do a song
instead. Get your students thinking about the subject and do any pre-teaching
of vocabulary as necessary. As with standard listening comprehension, there are
a variety of exercises that you can do with songs: true or false, matching
exercises, open comprehension questions, etc.
Phonetics
You can use a
song with a clear rhyme pattern to do some phonetics work on particular
phonemes.
Strips of
Paper
The lyrics
you will find on this site can be cut up into strips which then need to be
reconstructed as the song unfolds. Alternatively, each student is given a strip
to memorize beforehand and the students then work among themselves to
'physically' rebuild the song.
Vocabulary
Some songs
lend themselves well to vocabulary work. When possible, I have noted on the
menu pages when vocabulary exercises are possible.
In summary, songs allow pupils to hear
English in context, naturally, to listen repeatedly, to enjoy learning, to be
more involved with TPR (total physical response), to be focused and motivated
and remember language more easily and for longer. Songs also help with
classroom management.
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