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| Title | What to Do with Songs, Part 1 |
| Body | Part 1: Listening Activities for Whole Classes CLOZE ACTIVITY Any song can be prepared with words blanked out and a word bank posted at the bottom of the page. Good idea to place a couple confusers in the bank, or just a couple extra words. Even better if all the blanked words can be related--all verbs, all adjectives, all key words for the theme of the song. You decide. Helps to number the blanks for class discussion. SCRAMBLE/UNSCRAMBLE Thank you, my computer. After you type in the lyrics of a song in verses and chorus, use your computer to move lines around within each verse and chorus. Thus line 1 is 3, line 4 is 1, and so on. Type a short underline, about four spaces, before each line of the song so students have a place to write numbers. I prefer to tell students that when we listen to the song they have to number each verse and chorus beginning again at one. Otherwise, it can get too complicated to number consecutively from 1 to 16, 20, 24, or whatever--too much leeway for mistakes and frustration. STRIP UNSCRAMBLE Don't get excited. Print the song in larger print on various colors of paper. Cut each sheet of paper individually into strips according to the lines of the song. Mix 'em up, just strips from one paper, and put in baggies or envelopes. Have pairs or trios of students listen and put the strips in order on a desktop or table. ANNE-MARIE'S SCRAMBLE Give each trio of kids the bag of strips and have them divide it up. (Here's why colored paper helps.) Play the song; Anne-Marie likes fast songs best for this. When each student hears a line that they're holding, they just throw it down on the floor. I generally have 'em stand around a desk or table, and then I beg everyone to be really careful to pick up and rebag ALL the strips. Coming next week, Part 2: Highlighting Grammar and New Vocabulary Barabe, B. WHAT TO DO WITH SONGS. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (4 Nov. 2006). |
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