Turn a holiday video into a grammatical laboratory. This immersive session uses “Snowman” by Sia to teach the Present Continuous through visual narration and the “Freeze Frame” technique, bypassing textbook boredom entirely.
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Turn a holiday video into a grammatical laboratory. This immersive session uses “Snowman” by Sia to teach the Present Continuous through visual narration and the “Freeze Frame” technique, bypassing textbook boredom entirely.
Stop just teaching songs. Start transmuting noise into knowledge. Welcome to the New Era of the Song Activity Factory. In this manifesto, I reveal how to use David Guetta to teach Natural Sciences (Chemical Reactions). Get the complete Pop CLIL lesson plan and the new ‘Assessment with a Soul’ toolkit inside.
Get a free ESL lesson plan to teach the Second Conditional with Katy Perry’s “Bandaids.” End grammar boredom and get a full “Assessment with a Soul” toolkit to eliminate your assessment anxiety.
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A creative ESL lesson plan using Alex Warren’s “Ordinary.” This B2/C1 song activity goes beyond gap-fills to teach critical thinking and figurative language
Tired of boring gap-fill exercises? Discover how to use Alex Warren’s hit song “Ordinary” to create a truly creative and time-saving song activity for your teen or adult ESL students. This deep dive moves beyond the surface, offering a line-by-line analysis of powerful metaphors and vocabulary you can actually teach with. Get a FREE, ready-to-use lesson plan designed to develop critical thinking, listening skills, and grammar in a meaningful context. Stop searching and start teaching with an activity that fosters deep discussion and engages students with music they already love.