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These are quick and fun Listening Activities to break the pace of your English language teaching classes and give students a breath of fresh air while at the same time, reviewing some grammar points like the Simple Past Tense, Passive Voice, Simple Present and some vocabulary words.

This is the GRAMMACLIP CHALLENGE featuring the song and music video for “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus! The challenges are divided by level of difficulty. Choose the most appropriate for your students and ENJOY!

HAPPY TEACHING!

OBJECTIVES OF THIS ACTIVITY:
- Provide quick and fun listening activities for English language teaching classes using a music video
- Challenge students with different levels of difficulty, including identifying verbs in the Simple Past, Passive Voice, negative verbs in the Simple Present, modal verbs, leisure activities, parts of the body, comparative adjectives, reflexive pronouns, and understanding the meaning of the lyrics.

How To Play The GrammaClip Challenges:

Step 1. Divide students into pairs or trios, and tell them they are going to watch/listen to various video clips of a song and in each one, they have to listen to different things and write them down on a blank sheet of paper. (or on the chat box, if you’re teaching online. in this case, tell them to send you the answers privately!)

Step 2. Before playing each clip, say what you want the students to listen to and make sure they know it. In order to do that ask them if they can give you examples of the vocab words/grammar structures they must listen to.

Step 3. Tell them they have 3 chances to try to get the right word. Then, play the first clip 3 times and they write down the answer for number 1.

Step 4. Check what the teams wrote down and assign points. (1 for each right word, if there is more than 1 word in the clip)

Step 5. Repeat steps 2, 3, 4 for the next clips. The team with more points, in the end, is the winner!

GrammaClip Challenge 01

Basic (easy): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY at least 2 verbs in the Simple Past:

Intermediate (medium): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 4 verbs in the Simple Past + 1 Passive Voice Verb

Advanced (hard): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 4 verbs in the Simple Past + 1 Passive Voice Verb and answer the question: What is she singing about? justify your answer.

(ANSWERS and lyrics key in the pdf instructions)

GrammaClip Challenge 02

Basic (easy): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 2 verbs in the Simple Past + 1 negative verb in the Simple Present:

Intermediate (medium): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 3 verbs in the Simple Past + 1 negative verb in the Simple Present + a modal verb:

Advanced (hard): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 3 verbs in the Simple Past + 1 negative verb in the Simple Present + answer the question: What are at least 3 things that the singer can do?

(ANSWERS and lyrics key in the pdf instructions)

GrammaClip Challenge 03

Basic (easy): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 1 leisure activity +1 part of the body:

Intermediate (medium): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 1 part of the body + 1 comparative adjective

Advanced (hard): WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 1 part of the body + 1 reflexive pronoun + answer the question: How is the singer feeling in the clip? justify your answer with words from the lyrics

(ANSWERS and lyrics key in the pdf instructions)

This is the Song Activity Factory! Here, we follow the rules of The Creative Jedi Code:

See below for a Conversation Class featuring the Lyrics of Flowers by Miley Cyrus:

Empowering Self-Love and Self-Discovery through the Lyrics of Flowers by Miley Cyrus

These song-based lesson plans are sure to spice up your classes! However, would you like to think, feel and act more creatively on your own to be able to turn ANY song you want into an engaging lesson plan?
HERE are TIME-SAVING ideas that do the heavy work so you can focus on the most important: INSPIRING and MOTIVATING YOUR STUDENTS to learn CREATIVELY!

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