use SONGS in your teaching

Hi!!

In this post I will introduce you to a website that you can sing and guess the lyrics at the same time.and the best part of it you can us it in ENGLISH TEACHING

click this to link you to the website- LYRICS TRAINING

Sample of the song in the website

It has most of the latest song that is on billboard so I am pretty sure you will love this. =)


so how can you use this in English Language Teaching?

1.This will be good for listening skills. Students can listen to the songs and fill in the gaps that provided below the video clip.

There is 3 level for this game.Beginner,Intermediate and Expert.

For beginner level you will need to fill 10% of the lyrics.
For intermediate level you will need to fill 25% of the lyrics.
For expert level you will need to fill 100% of the lyrics.
so you can choose depend on how well you know the songs as it is a little bit harder to listen words in a song due to the music and style of singing.

However,this will be an interesting way for students to learn new vocabulary as songs can be really fun.

ADVANTAGES

1.EASY-it is really easy to use.You just click on the website.Type any songs that you want (note the some songs might not be available).Then choose the level that is suitable with you..and sing it out loud!! if you don't know certain words don't worry as you can skip the word by press TAB.

2. you can KEEP YOUR SCORE by registering your name and password so you can keep track of your record.

3.HELP BUTTON.there is a HELP button at the side.this explain better how you can play it.

4. it is  authentic because it is made not for English teaching.the language used in songs are real language hence it is very good for students as these language are really used in daily life.

5.it is also relevance to be used in English teaching as this is area of interest of students' life nowadays,so students will enjoy it better.

6.it encourages autonomy learning as well.Students can do it on their own pace and encourage for self-learning at home as well.

DISADVANTAGES

1.it might have unsuitable words(curse words) in the song such as sh*t which is quite common in rapping song.Therefore,teacher need to observe students so that they would not be influence by this unsuitable words.

2.Teacher won't be able to control the choice of songs by the students.Students might choose songs that has inappropriate theme and they might influence their friends as well.Therefore,teacher need to remind students about their choice of songs as well.


                                                                                                                      
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p/s: i quite like this website because it is really fun to learn 

       english using song.Students will enjoy this.Give variety

       to your teaching sometimes can be good!! You can 

       ask your students to act out based on the songs 

       as well.This will be good to see how much your students

      understand the words in the songs and give room to 

      their creativity.=)

teach VOCABULARY in a different way

In this post I will write review about two websites that you can use to make word cloud.Word cloud can be use to teach vocabulary to students.Teacher can use it to activate students schemata.It looks more interesting than just list down words. Basically,a word cloud is a cloud of word that you take from an article.The words that most use in the article will be in the word cloud.Hence, if you want students to read article,word cloud is one of good pre-reading activity.
Below are two websites that can be used to make word cloud.


1.WORDSHIFT

how to use??

1.First, paste your article on the website.

2. Then click SIFT,and automatically a word cloud will be formed. Words that are written most in the article would be included in the word cloud.

How can Teacher use this in Teaching

1.Teacher can use this as pre-reading activity.For example, ask students to guess from the word shift.This can help students to activate their schemata for the lesson before the real lesson starts.This can helps to prepare students mentally for learning.

Advantages of this website

- it is simple to use
- you can click on the website to see the words from rare to common
-if you click on the word you can see suggested image as well
-if you click on the word you can samples of the word use in the article also
-students can easily focus on the keyword because of the simple design
-thesaurus
-you can click on the word and it will show you the word use in the article

                                                                                                                                
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2.  WORDLE.NET

How to use?
1.open the webpage and click on the word CLICK to form a word cloud

2.Then,copy your article or you paste the url of your article

advantages of this website
1. You can leave out certain words/things that you don't want to be included in the word cloud.For example,You do not want names to be included in the word cloud,you can cut it out.

2.If you are taking article from internet you can paste the  URL directly

3. the words can be colorful.You can choose what kind of color that you want

4.It has more designs than word shift.For example,you can either the words in the middle looks bigger or all the word have the same size

5.Since there are many things to do with the design and colors of the word clouds, students can enhance their creativity

6.In this website,you can save and print your work which is good!!

7.It works way faster than word shift.

Disadvantage
However,many people would find it is hard to use this because to see the word cloud you will need java to be downloaded.BUT to download java is very easy,there is help button if you can't see the image of the word cloud,which will give you a few suggestion what you can do in order to see the image.



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HOW CAN WE USE WORD CLOUDS IN TEACHING

1.pre-reading
2.to activate schemata
3.teach sudents new vocab and show it interesting way
4.students can relate one word to another
5.easy to remember the main essence of the article for example history
6.creativity- guess from the wordle ask students to write the story and copy it to wordle and bring it to the class and ask their friends to guess their story from the world
7.predict your friends' story
8.can see way common word that in a class use
9.match wordle and stories in group