ESL listening activity with a fun grammar challenge using Dua Lipa songs

Boost ESL Listening Skills with a Fun Grammar Challenge: Dua Lipa & More

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Liven up your English lessons with the GrammaClip Challenge featuring popular songs!

Searching for a quick and engaging activity to liven up your English lessons?

Look no further than this GrammaClip Challenge! Perfect for ESL students of all levels, this music-based listening activity features popular songs by Dua Lipa, David Guetta feat. Kim Petras, and Natalie Jane.

Whether you’re teaching the Simple Past, Present Continuous, adjectives, or relative pronouns + more, this challenge has got you covered. With three levels of difficulty to choose from, you can easily adapt the activity to suit your students’ needs and keep them engaged as they practice their listening and grammar skills.

So, take a break from the usual routine and treat your students to a fun and educational listening experience. Hit play on the music video extracts, dive into the interactive challenges, and watch as your students’ English language proficiency soars!

Description:

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, Simple Present, Present continuous Comparatives, adjectives, relative pronouns etc..

This is the GRAMMACLIP CHALLENGE featuring the songs and music video extracts for “Houdini” by Dua Lipa, “When We Were Young” by David Guetta feat. Kim Petras and “Intrusive Thoughts” by Natalie Jane! The challenges are divided by level of difficulty. Choose the most appropriate for your students and ENJOY!

HAPPY TEACHING!

Instructions.pdf
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, Present Continuous, Simple Present, etc, and understanding the meaning of the lyrics.
Boost the Four Skills in Your ESL Classroom with Critical Thinking and Music

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

ATTENTION! Choose the most appropriate game level for your students: Basic, intermediate or advanced!

Basic (easy):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY at least 3 verbs in the Simple Present affirmative (Excluding the verb to be):

Intermediate (medium):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 3 verbs in imperative form + 1 comparative adjective and + 1 question in the present continuous.

Advanced (hard):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 2 verbs in the Present continuous + 4 verbs in the imperative form and answer the question: What does the singer compare the passing of time to?

(ANSWERS and lyrics key in the pdf instructions)

Teacher’s Tips:

After completing the challenge, take a moment to reinforce the grammatical structures identified. Discuss their usage within the song’s context and how they contribute to the overall meaning of the lyrics. Encourage students to come up with additional sentences using the identified structures to solidify their understanding.

GrammaClip Challenge 02

ATTENTION! Choose the most appropriate game level for your students: Basic, intermediate or advanced!

Basic (easy):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY at least 2 adjectives + 1 verb to be present:

Intermediate (medium):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY at least 4 adjectives + at least 2 verbs in the Simple Past

Advanced (hard):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 8 adjectives + 3 verbs in the Simple Past + 1 tag question

(ANSWERS and lyrics key in the pdf instructions)

GrammaClip Challenge 03

ATTENTION! Choose the most appropriate game level for your students: Basic, intermediate or advanced!

Basic (easy):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 1 adverb of frequency +1 part of the body:

Intermediate (medium):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 1 part of the body + 1 verb in the present continuous + at least 1 adjective

Advanced (hard):

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW AND IDENTIFY 1 relative pronoun 2 adjectives + 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)

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