Sing n tell

 

 

Great site this to combine lyrics and music videos in one place.

Cool link for students so they bring their own worksheets to class and save you time!

It is exam time so this provides some light relief:

http://batlyrics.com/

It’s English Jim, but not as we know it …

You may have seen this before but it is new to me: gibberish … how to speak English without making a sound, or rather, without making sense.

And more on the theme from this great blog post:

http://amog.com/offbeat/english-sounds-nonenglish-speakers/

It’s music Jim … but not as we know it

A quick test of how long somebody has been teaching is to check out their experience of using music in the classroom. Who can remember listening to fuzzy tapes, pausing and desperately trying to write down the words and then copy out afresh into a worksheet? To anybody who has grown up with internet that is obviously stone age lesson preparation. Nowadays, it takes a fraction of the time to download video, lyrics and lots more. What I had partially forgotten and partially not realised are the variety of videos you can find of many songs. Try Taio Cruz “Dynamite” on YouTube for example and look at the variety: apart from the official video you will often find many more including versions with the lyrics. Great variety fi you want to listen to a video more than once with a class. And for some real fun (I learned this from my own kids yesterday) check out the versions by Bob Spongebox and / or the Chipmunks … drive yout classes crazy with these versions.

Know all

Just found this site which is full of resources http://www.saberingles.com.ar/. Not the prettiest of sites, not the easiest to navigate and it comes with lots of ads BUT it does have a lot to offer. Check out for example the link on the left to Canciones. A great collection of lyrics in English and Spanish and if you scroll down and follow the “Ejercicios de comprensión” you will find even more. As I say, not the most beautiful but more than worth spending half an hour exploring.