Hello everyone J
Some days ago I was
wondering how I could attract my students´ attention in a fruitful way. I was looking
for something that they find interesting and make them learn English in an
easier way at the same time. And then I remember one of my favourite English
classes at high school: when I was in 3rd of ESO, every semester we
had to choose a song in English and sing it in front of the class in groups. We
had to learn its lyrics very well and it made me start listening to music in
English and getting more and more familiar with it. These kinds of classes were
also classes that everybody was looking forward.
Taking this experience
into account I started to think ways of using English music when teaching ESL
students. Here you have some examples:
·
Selecting a song for
every grammar lesson containing the grammar structures we are teaching.
·
Selecting songs related
with the vocabulary that we are studying. It can be a way of evaluating
listening skill and vocabulary at the same time.
·
Selecting a song our
students seem to like as starting points for attracting our students´ attention
at the beginning of the class.
·
Selecting a song our
students seem to like to finish our class in a relaxing way after having worked
hard.
·
Of course, we can also
use the activity I already mentioned as it was a very positive experience.
I am sure that we can
find many other ways to use music in our class. I encourage you to use music
and find another ways to use it. Maybe planning some karaoke party could sound
amazing. Let´s the le music teach!
See u all around,
