2. Materials and tools: Zoom, Google classroom, Google slide, Youtube video, Quizlet, Lyricstraining, Google spreadsheets
3. Learning Objectives
Students will be able to fill in gaps while listening a song 'Happy'.
Students will be able to build up vocabulary power and translate it in Korean.
4. Procedure
* Google slide
1) Drawing or writing down things makes you happy : Zoom whiteboard 2) Short introduction of the song and listening to the song : YoutubeHappy(lyrics)
3) Vocabulary and phrase review : Live game in Quizlet
- Students search the food that represent other countries. - Students post it on the Fadlet with a picture. - Students see they other students posted on the map. - Students can about representative food in other countries.
- Students listen to a song 'Do you like broccoli ice cream?' through the lyricstraining. - Students fill in the blank in the lyric. - If they finish early, they try ‘Do you like Spaghetti yogurt?’or ‘Do you like pickle pudding?’ song.
C. Consolidation (4`)
1. rounding up
- Students say what they learned and which activity they enjoyed today.
1. Procedures
1) Greeting(3')
2) Word Quiz 1,2(3')
3) Listening to the song, filling in the blanks and singing along(10’)
4) Correcting and rewriting the sentences(10')
5) Grammar-focused writing(10') 6) Reviewing and next class preview(5') 7) Sing along all together(4')
4) Google Slide for writing 3. Comments 1) When teachers use www.lyricstraining.com, they can customize the blanks of the songs that students should notice and fill in. 2) When managing writing activities, students can write something unexpected or surprising with their group members, so just keep watching what they write is required. 3) All writing activities are evaluated according to criterion-referenced evaluation, unless students can be reluctant to write.
PPT Google Slides
This song lesson is combined with kinesthetic elements to memorize and remember English songs longer making a group of students create a music video for each song.
I've wanted to know how to combine grammar teaching with communicative approach. I think that grammar should be embedded in meaningful, authentic and communicative contexts. I tried to come up with the effective ways to contextualize the targeted form 'who' in natural, authentic classroom activity. I devised grammar class about use of a relative pronoun 'who' for describing students' ideal men or women.
- I had a certain class for grammar instruction teaching 'who'.
- This class is devised right after the class to help students internalize this targeted form better through some activities.
First activity
-using the lyric of Korean song 'I need a girl' by Tae Yang
(lyrics or Music video might not be appropriate for teaching materials. We can use older song '희망사항' instead.)
Lyrics of those two Korean songs are all about describing their ideal women.)
ex) I need a girl 뭘 해도 이쁜
: I need a girl who looks pretty no matter what she does.
치마보다 청바지가 잘 어울리는 그런 여자
: I need a girl who looks better in jeans than a skirt.
Second activity (talking about ideal men or women) -3-steps speaking :First step : with your partner (tell him/her your own sentences starting with I like someone who.....) :Second step : with one of group members (tell him/her your own sentences starting with I like someone who..... and what you heard from your partner starting with he/she<your partner likes someone who.....) :Third step : with the other of group members (tell him/her about his/her sentences you heard from other member starting with you like someone who.....)
1. Learning Objectives - Students will be able to fill in the blanks correctly listening to the pop song. - Students will be able to write sentences using the superlative adjectives. 2. Pop-song Activity - To guess the title of a pop song by looking an image made with Tagul
- To watch a music video and listen to a pop song ('The Best Day' by Taylor Swift) - To fill in the blanks in the worksheet - To check the answers in pairs first, and then in a whole class - To play a game with lyricstraining.com in groups, using small white boards
3. Look-Around-You Race - Write as many superlative statements about the people in the classroom as they can. - After 5 minutes, each group takes turns and shares their sentences. - If group B has the same sentence as the group A, then group B should cross that statement off their list. - The activity continues until all groups have read all of their statement and any duplicates are eliminated. - The group win the most statement remaining wins. * Google slide materials * Pop song worksheet
Language Skills: Listening, speaking and writing Learning Objective: Students will be able to make the song and sing the song. Teaching Objective: I hope students enjoy listening to ESL song and pop song and then they learn about what they did in the past naturally.
1) Choose an appropriate English song - no bad words, good message, preferably with a music video that can spark students' interest. I chose the song 'True Colors' and used the TV show 'Glee' version because there is a good video clip I can use.
2) Make a video explaining the lyrics of the song you chose. Try not to go over more than 6-7 minutes. You don't have to explain every little detail of the song. Just focus on the things you think matter the most. To make a video, I used PPT, Ocam, Audacity.
3) Make worksheet Ss can fill out watching the video you made. You can make them watch it at home or in the classroom. It's up to you.
4) Before Ss fill out the worksheet, make them watch a music video first without writing anything down. Then make them fill out their worksheet watching your video explaining the lyrics. While they are watching the video, you can walk around and help them.
5) After Ss fully understand the meaning of the lyrics, give each of them different lines of lyrics. How many lines they should get is up to the classroom size. I recommend 1-3 lines per each student.
6) Make Ss draw a picture that can explain the lyrics they get. Tell them you (or a student who is good at computer) will gather every one's pictures and turn them into a music video. This will motivate them to do their share. This is an example.
(7) Before you make a music video with their pictures, you can also do an listening activity. Play the song and make Ss hold up their pictures when their lyrics come out.
I got 'picture music video' idea from another trainee, Mira. It's a great way to use a song for your class.
(+) Every material I made for this classroom can be found here.
