Hey there, English teaching rockstars! Ready to add some serious groove to your lesson plans?
Get ready to explore and have fun with an electrifying English adventure featuring Mark Tuan‘s mesmerizing music video, “Fallin‘”. This song-powered lesson is your secret weapon to captivate your B1 level students and make English come alive like never before. I’ve got a lineup of vocabulary and speaking activities that’ll get your students jamming, creating, and communicating with confidence. It’s not just about hitting play—it’s about immersing your class in a world of rhythm, rhyme, and real-life English.
Picture this: your students collaborating on interactive tasks, unleashing their creativity, and mastering 21st-century skills, all while grooving to Mark Tuan’s infectious beats. Whether you’re leading the charge in a physical classroom or rocking it out in a virtual session, this lesson is your one-way ticket to English teaching stardom. So, grab your headphones, hit that play button, and let’s embark on a language-learning journey that’s nothing short of extraordinary. Are you ready to make English unforgettable? Let’s do this!
Description:
This song-based STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN for ENGLISH language TEACHING features the lyrics and music video for the song “Fallin’” by Mark Tuan.
In this dynamic song-based lesson plan, students explore a music video through visual analysis and prediction, engage in a creative “Music Video Lottery,” and participate in a “Watch & Catch” activity to identify visual and lyrical elements. They focus on grammar points such as the present continuous verb, parts of the body, adjectives, and uncountable nouns, enhancing their English skills through critical thinking and creativity.
OBS: This lesson plan was made for ONLINE TEACHING, but it can be modified for face-to-face instruction, as well.
Language level: B1
Learner type: Teens & Adults
Skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing
Topic: Music video analysis:
Grammar: Present continuous verb, parts of the body, adjectives, uncountable nouns
Materials: Genially presentation, YT videos
Duration: 45 - 60 min
Download your free teaching resources: instructions.pdf
STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN
Step 1 (7 min)
GENYAL.LY PRESENTATION LINK
Show the first slide with the 5 pictures. Have different students describe them. Ask: “Which of the 5 pictures is the most fun? Why?
If you could be one of the people in the picture, who would you like to be? Why?
Have students share their ideas and opinions
Step 2 (5 min)
Tell them the pictures are from a music video. Ask them: Can you identify the song or the singer? What kind of music do you think it is? Sad, happy, fast, slow, music genre, etc?
Step 3 (20 min)
Tell students they are going to watch the music video for the song to check their ideas. However, before watching the video, they are going to PLAY a music video lottery.
INSTRUCTIONS: Divide students into teams. Show the second slide with the pictures. Explain that only 5 of those things will appear on the video. Their task is to choose them and come up with reasons why they chose them. (The aim here is for them to use their imagination to come up with creative reasons why those things would appear on the video). Tell them that the crazier the better! Put the groups in breakout rooms and give them 5 min to choose the pictures. When the time’s up, Have the groups’ captains send their list of words via chat box, for you to check later who got more right things. Have students from the groups explain their choices.
Step 4 (5 min)
Play the music video for them to check!
ANSWER: Things NOT in the video: (skateboard, ball, dog, cat, cake)
Step 5 (15 min)
Watch & Catch Activity
Tell students they are going to WATCH a video with 4 excerpts from the same music video, and in each part, they have to identify – CATCH– something visual in the video e.g. find a number or an animal, and also listen to something in the lyrics: e.g. listen to adjectives. There are 4 parts, and before each one, there are instructions to what the students have to catch. The excerpts are recorded 3 times in a row, so they have 3 chances to catch the things. For each right item, the teams get one point. The team with more points wins!
How to set up the activity:. Divide the teams (it can be the same teams from the last activity). Remind them not to say the answers now! They must write their answers down to discuss with their teammates later.
Play the video (pause it on each video instruction and make sure to review the things they’re supposed to see or find before they watch it. For example: ask students if they remember some prepositions and ask them to give examples. Repeat the process for the 4 parts.
Check the groups’ answers and assign points. The group with more points is the winner.
SEE ANSWERS IN THE INSTRUCTION.PDF
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