What is English through Songs?
A. COURSE DESCRIPTION
A course focused on understanding songs phonetically, linguistically, and culturally. In this course, learners will listen to and practice pronunciation, do a variety of vocabulary learning and phrase awareness activities, have a chance to discuss different backgrounds and study language in fun way.
B. Rationale:
Music is a great language package that bundles culture, vocabulary, listening, grammar and a host of other language skills in just a few rhymes. Music can also provide a relaxed lesson on a hot boring day.
q English songs can be used for a wide variety of ESL learning and teaching activities. They can start discussions on a topic or even become the centre of debate.
q Most songs reflect the background of the singer, why not do activities on something like varieties of modern English; or simply by comparing two songs ask students to figure out where the speaker is from and why.
q Songs are also great for teaching listening. A great exercise with music is completing the blanks as students listen and choose the correct words from two words than rhyme, for example cry and try.
q You can teach grammar with songs in many ways. However many English songs sometimes sacrifice grammar for smooth rhyme.
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