Teaching English through songs in the digital age (part 4 of 4): Music-related web 2.0 tools
Finally, this is the last part of the series which summarizes the #ELTchat from Jan 12th about Teaching English through songs: activities, resources and benefits of using songs for teaching. In this post I have collected music-related web 2.0 tools which were mentioned during the #ELTchat and examples of how to use them.
- Music and lyrics copied and pasted on IWB.
- Put up a playlist on YouTube for students. So, if they like a song, then they can listen to more beyond class.
- There are lots of karaoke videos on Youtube; with just a computer and a mic, you can have a great singing lesson!
Spotify (Spotify is available in the following countries:Finland, France, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and Grooveshark
- Get students to make a playlist, then ask them to walk around class & find out who else’s they would listen to.
- Make a quiz on lyrics. Ss answer as they watch the video clip.
- Great for autonomous work on the songs they like.
- Choose song, choose level, fill gaps. Music will stop.
- Ask students to subtitle song. Then compare each other’s versions
- Do a word cloud to predict the song theme.
- Students make up their own song based on word cloud , then compare with real song to see who is accurate.
- A great warmer for a song is to stick the lyrics in Wordle or Worditout and ask learners to guess song from word cloud.
Other tools and websites
Tune into English is a fabulous free resource to use with students!!
English Central always includes a song for pronunciation work.
Karaoke Party is a great interactive online karaoke venue – very useful interface with ratings et al.
Tubeoke is also great. It shows the video and the lyrics alongside.
I hope these tools can really make the use of songs more fun. I have really enjoyed writing this series!
I hope these tools can really make the use of songs more fun. I have really enjoyed writing this series!
Tags: #ELTchat, music, songs
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