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Date Posted: 17:51:32 06/13/07 Wed
Author: Caroline
Subject: Task 04

Songs in classroom
Mary is an English teacher who not often prepares her classes. When she has an “extra time” in her classes, she plays some songs. She gave the lyrics to students and that’s all. It is something wrong, right? The majority of English teachers act like Mary, they use songs as enterneinment and is not only that. Teachers should use songs not only enterteinment. Songs can be worked though different purposes inside a classroom.
First, teachers should explores the background of the song. Explain why the song has written, bios of any real people mentioned in a song, the period in history and events that are mentioned, and the life of the songwriter. Doing this students read not only didactic texts but also “real” texts.
Using songs to teach commands to students its also a very good strategy. For example, if students are children, the teacher can play a song that contains “stand up” and tell the students to stand up and do what the song asks them to do. Doing this children internalize the commands in English and start to use these new vocabulary.
The third one is use the songs to help students to develop skills. They listen to the song, write sentences that are missing and after all they re-tell what the song say. This is a different kind of task, which students enjoy more.
The last one is show the cultural differences in songs to students. For example, show the different accents in songs sang by Shakira, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne and Beyonce. Teacher can present the different background of these singers, Shakira is Colombian, Celine Dion and Avril Lavigne are Canadian and Beyonce is American, however her English represent the black people from U.S. All these singers develop the English with one goal: to communicate. Even with different accents, different culture they use English to communicate with people through their songs.
In conclusion, songs can be used in different situations inside a classroom. Teachers can include lyrics in any part of the class and using this the class can be more interesting and enjoyable for both teachers and students.

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