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Month: April 2022

How To Become More Creative, Productive And In Tune With Your True Self

April 30, 2022 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Strategy Insights: Meditation for Teaching Professionals The Core Shift: Transmute the anxiety and perceived time-scarcity of the teaching profession into a state of inner peace,

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Marcia Bonfim walking on railroad tracks in Canada, symbolizing the journey of learning with the 'Traveler' C1 Advanced English lesson plan.

Exploring ‘Traveler’ by Luca Aprile: A Cambridge C1 Advanced Song-Based Lesson Plan

April 27, 2022 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Unlock the potential of song-based learning with our Cambridge C1 Advanced lesson plan centered on ‘Traveler’ by Luca Aprile. Explore themes of travel and relationships through engaging activities designed for both online and face-to-face classrooms

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Start Using These Ideas To Make Students Fall In Love With Your ELT Classes!

April 25, 2022 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Become A Creative Jedi! Avoid The Gap-filling Death Of Creativity with 10 Song Activity Ideas For ELT! HERE are 10 IDEAS that do the HEAVY

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Engaging ESL Lesson: Explore Countries with Music. Includes Genially presentation, song extracts, and interactive activities. Boost 4 skills & 21st-century skills.

How To Embrace Global Music in ESL: Take This World Tour!

April 18, 2022 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Discover an engaging step-by-step lesson plan to teach English using songs from Albania, Cameroon, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. Students talk about countries, match places and songs, and correct lyrics. Perfect for B1+ levels, this activity boosts speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills. Download free resources now!

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Comparative Adjectives In Songs: Review & Practice Challenge – Teaching English With Songs!

April 2, 2022 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Lesson at a Glance: Comparative Adjectives The Experience: Students participate in a gamified listening challenge to identify comparative adjectives across seven song extracts from non-copyrighted

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Loved this site. I have already implemented some of the lesson plans in my classes and it’s so great how students respond to more dynamic

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“Months ago I discovered Song Activity Factory: I was very impressed. In fact it offers lesson plans based on trendy songs AND it features great

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― Ambra Arduini

I just wanted to say thank you to Márcia, her website Song Activity Factory has helped me in so many ways. I started teaching online

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― Anita Massa

Song Activity Factory is the perfect way to make your students get the language “Under their skin” (any coincidence with the song is only a

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― Chris Pontiroli

Song Activity Factory is for sure one of the greatest websites available to help ESL teachers in the new journey of online teaching. It takes

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― Diego Fracari

Dear Márcia,  You are un(and I really have to use the F word here!)believable!  I requested this song about 3-4 days ago and in this short

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― Elize Marais

Marcia, I don’t know if I’ve ever told you how much I love your activities! Every time I open my email and find a different

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― Giselle da Silva

I always use Song Activity Factory and I’ve had such great experiences with my students. It’s possible to work with different skills of language, making

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― Leandro Thomazini

Song Activity Factory has been a fantastic addition to my ESL classroom. My students specifically requested to use it, and it turned out to be

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SAF was a life saver with the lesson plan for Rain on me – soon after all classes had moved online and running out of

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