Hello, fellow teachers! Here’s a fresh take on the infamous gap-filling exercises! I’ve created a fun activity featuring 2023 songs that will engage your students and make English learning a rocking experience.
If your students enjoy music, they’ll adore this activity! Let’s explore new songs from 2023 (+plus a surprise) and use these songs to boost English skills while having a blast. Ready to rock your classroom? Let’s get started!
Quick Lesson Overview:
In this entertaining and engaging song-based activity featuring some 2023 songs by Ed Sheeran (Borderline), Lewis Capaldi ( Wish You The Best), Calum Scott ( At Your Worst) and Brett Young (Dance With You) + an unexpected Britney Spears Cover, students watch five separate videos with song extracts. The lyrics appear on the screen with gaps, and their task is to watch and complete the missing words as they hear them. This activity is perfect as a review, extra listening practice, reward activity, or just for a good time! You and your students deserve it! XD
- Language level: A2+B1
- Learner type: All ages
- Skills: listening and writing
- Topic: Music
- Language: Basic words and verbs
- Materials: embedded videos on the blog post
- Duration: 20 – 30 min
- Downloadable materials: Instructions.pdf
Objectives Of This ESL Song Lesson Plan:
1. Enhance listening comprehension and aural skills.
2. Expand vocabulary, language usage, and context understanding.
2. Encourage engagement, motivation, and collaborative learning.
Welcome to the Song Activity Factory! Here, we follow the rules of The Creative Jedi Code:
How to Teach English with This ESL Song Lesson Plan:
Basic Instructions:
There are five song extracts in this activity. Each song extract has a slide for the students to read and prepare before they listen to the song to identify the missing words. Instruct students to write their answers down on a sheet of paper. It’s also a good idea to pause the video and have students read it. Clarify any doubts about the vocabulary. Then play it for the students twice or more. Have students check their answers in pairs, before playing once more and correcting the exercises. The answers are in the instructions.pdf.
Step 1 (5 min)
Play the first extract, pausing after the “read and prepare” slide. Help students with the vocabulary. Play the extract 2x or more, and have students write down their answers.
Step 2 (5 min)
Have students check their answers in pairs. Then, correct it by having students read the extract with their answers.
Step 3 (15 min)
Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the other extracts.
The answers are in the instructions.pdf.
Song Activity Factory 
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