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| Contentid | 3470 |
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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Ideas for Using Pop Music in Class |
| Body | Find the song lyrics online and create a cloze task (either with specific vocabulary that the students should understand, or perhaps with specific grammatical constructions, say, participles, or dative pronouns). Some songs lend themselves to writing exercises afterward, e.g., create a cloze task, play "Warum hast du das getan" by die Prinzen, then have students write a sentence or two about what "she" did to make the singer so unhappy. I've gotten some really creative responses to this one. Or you could have creative & more advanced students write their own versions of some songs, e.g., using the Prinzen's "Deutsch" as an model, write about positive and negative aspects of American culture. Some songs can be used for grammar practice, e.g., I play Schande by Lucilectric, which contains lines like "Schande, dass ich nicht reich geboren bin." I then have an exercise where students make wishes in subjunctive: Wenn ich nur reich geboren waere! Or the song "Was soll ich ihr schenken" is a great lead-in to an exercise on dative case (practicing order of pronouns or giving creative gift ideas). Some songs can be used like any text as the basis for discussion: ask questions about the "plot:" who's speaking, how he or she feels or thinks and why, etc. I play a lot of music right before class starts and sometimes put up the words on an overhead for those who'd like to follow along. I replay the same songs a lot, and this way students have a better idea of the words and understand the songs better when I play them again. I also replay songs that we've worked on in class, and I think students like that they understand the songs better when they hear them again. Seidlitz, L. Re: [AATG-L] Lieder, Filme, klass. Musik - brauche Hilfe! American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (24 Aug. 2005). |
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