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USING SONGS AND CHANTS
IN THE CLASSROOM
Fanny Gutiérrez Anturì
Language
Learning Resources CourseCaldas
University
Martha Liliana Carrillo Arias
MUSIC AND SONG Advantag
es
Disadvantages
ADVANTAGES
• Affective reasons• Cognitive reasons• Linguistic reasons• Classroom atmosphere• Language Input• Cultural Input• Songs as text
DISADVANTAGES• Administrators/teachers/students do not take
music and song seriously.• It distracts neighboring classes.• Some students get too excited• It takes away from the normal syllabus• Students disagree about songs, and have
different musical tastes• Students just want to listen, not to work• Lack of Technical Equipment due to cost
• Use music selectively and
purposely • • To practice pronunciation
clear lyrics songs• must be chosen
• To plan the other materials needed like realia, puppets, visuals
• Songs must have an easy melody and rhythm
Implications and considerations
Specific Activities with songs
• Songs promote listening exercises practices through different specific tasks.
• They are a nice way to introduce a topic, grammar structures.
• They are useful to reinforce studied linguistic functions.
• They promote the practice of pronunciation, intonation and stress.
• They are a nice way to introduce, practice, and review vocabulary.
• They are useful to practice writing.• They enrich the knowledge of cultural features.• They are a way of developing of language skills
SEAL
KISS FROM A ROSE
MADONNA
AMERICAN PIE
NORAH JONES
COLD COLD HEART
LED ZEPELLIN
STARWAY TO HEAVEN
CINDY LAUPER
TIME AFTER TIME
IN THE GHETTOBy Elvis Presley
Exercise-2: SEQUENCING(Listening Exercise by Bibi Baxter)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A child needs your helping hand;
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A poor little baby child is born
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ah, people don’t you understand
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - And as a young man dies on a cold and grey, Chicago morning,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - And he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - And his hunger burns, so he starts to roam the streets at night
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - And his mama cries
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1. Listen to the first part of the song and fill in the gaps with the words in the box:Beat, Brush up, Brushed up, Clean up, Cleans up, Dances, Does (2), got (2), Know (2), Think (2) Wash up(2)I __________a man with two left feetAnd when he ________ down to the I really that he should __________That his rhythms go go goI __________a man with two left feetAnd when he __________down to the beatI really __________that he should __________That his rhythms go go go
Filling the gaps
Listen to the 4th part of the song and fill in the gaps with these prepositions: of, on, onto, to (2), within.
Take a sip ______ dancing juice Everybody's ______ youThrough the left and ______ the rightEverybody hit the rhythmIt's ______ tonightI'm gonna feel the heat ______ my soulI need a man ______ take controlLet the melody blow you all way
Vocabulary Competition
http://www.musicalenglishlessons.com/index-ex.htm#articles
http://www.isabelperez.com/songs.htm
WAYS TO ACCESS
http://www.songsforteaching.com/Learning English with funny songs. C.D
http://www.youtube.com/user/DavidOsaka
Different textbooks such as Pop up, Blockbuster U.S.
Human Resources
Express Publishing, Fairy Tales
Laserlight cd
Conclusions
music creates a comfortable environment
It helps expose students to various types of activities
It promotes self confidence and group working.
Acknowledging of sourcesGriffee, Dale T. Songs in Action. Phoenix ELT. United Kingdom. 1995.
Murcia C. Marianne, Hilles Sharon. Techniques and Resources in Teaching Grammar. Oxford University Press. New York. 1998 .
Murphy, Tim. Music and Song. Oxford University Press. New York. 1992 .
Zambrano, Lilian and Vanegas, Evelio. Como Enseñar Inglès en Primaria una Propuesta Metodològica. Corpus litografìa. Neiva. 1997.
• Cranmer, David and Laroy, Clement. Musical Openings. Pilgrims. United Kingdom. 1992.
• Schoepp, Kevin. Reasons for using songs in the ESL7EFL classroom. Http//iteslj.or/Articles/Schoepp-songs.html.
Acknowledging of sources