SONG PIECES is back! By using various short song extracts, it injects variety and liveliness to English language teaching classes. It generates student interaction and collaboration to identify specific things in the lyrics, in a light and fun way.
SONG PIECES is fast-paced, and its variety provides extra energy and fun at any moment the teacher needs:
Review, warm-up, extra grammar practice, or as a simple reward activity
Description:
In this ELT song-based activity, students work in teams and listen to 7 different short song extracts, and have to identify different grammar structures and vocabulary in each one.
Language level: all levels
Learner type: All ages
Skills: listening and writing
Topic: varied
Language and grammar: comparative, prepositions, numbers, uncountable nouns, parts of the body, months, frequency adverbsDuration: 20 - 30 minutes
Downloadable materials: instructions; Song Extracts (mp3 files)
This song-based activity lesson plan for English language teaching features the song “You Can’t Stop the Girl” by Bebe Rexha and its official music video. Students talk about quotes related to women, listen to the song, use a word cloud to rewrite the lyrics, do an exercise based on Cambridge English: First (FCE) Use of English part 2 with the lyrics, watch the music video, and write a paragraph based on the song.
Language level: B1 and aboveLearner type: All agesSkills: speaking, reading, listening and writingTopic: Women empowermentLanguage: Vocabulary related to expressing and justifying opinions, agreeing and/or disagreeing and speculatingMaterials: Youtube video, worksheets and mp3 fileDuration: 1 hour - 1h 30 minDownloadable materials: instructions.pdf; Word Cloud slide;Use of English worksheet.pdf, song mp3
This song-based activity lesson plan for English language teaching features the songs ‘Clementine’ by Halsey, ‘Your Light’ by the Big Moon and ‘South of the Border’ by Ed Sheeran feat Camila Cabello & Cardi B, and their official music videos. Students talk about music videos and do a matching exercise with videos and song extracts, write a short narrative based on the videos and choose a theme song, read the lyrics of a song, watch music videos and make comparisons.
Language level: B1 and aboveLearner type: All agesSkills: speaking, reading, listening and writingTopic: Music Videos and comparisonsLanguage: Vocabulary related to music videos, songs, expressing opinions and making comparisonsMaterials: Youtube/ Vimeo videos, and mp3 filesDuration: 1 hour - 1h 30 minDownloadable materials: instructions.pdf; videos.mp4Song extracts mp3; QR codes Lyrics.pdf
This song-based activity lesson plan for English language teaching features the songs ‘Sunday’ by Neffex, ‘Something Special’ by Debby Smith and ‘Teeth’ by 5 Seconds of Summer and their official music videos. Students think and talk about connections between different things, listen to a song challenge and find out the word in common, watch music videos, read lyrics extracts, work together to make posters, evaluate each other’s work and explain and present their own work to others.
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” E. Y. Harburg
Song Activity Factory came to life mainly to help English language teaching professionals who feel that music in the form of songs surely has a fitting place in the ELT classroom. However, trying to find a ready-made song activity that features neither an ‘ancient’ song nor the most boring – and dreaded by students – type of exercise: gap filling, is time-consuming and mostly fruitless.
The song-based activities and lesson plans you find at Song activity Factory aim to motivate and engage students in a creative and fun way. In this post, you will see 5 ideas plus examples of song-based activities you can use to make your students speak more.
This song-based activity lesson plan for English language teaching features the song Hold Me While You Wait by Lewis Capaldi and its lyric video. Students talk about hugging and relationships and compare photographs (Cambridge English: First and First for Schools), speculate about the meaning of a song, guess words from lyrics, watch a lyric video, and rewrite the chorus of a song.
Language level: B1+ B2 Learner type: All agesSkills: speaking, reading, listening and writingTopic: Hugs and relationshipsLanguage: Vocabulary related to relationships, contrasting, comparing, speculatingMaterials: Youtube video, worksheets and mp3 fileDuration: 1 hour - 1h 30 minDownloadable materials: instructions; Photograph worksheet; Chorus worksheet; song mp3
This song-based activity lesson plan for English language teaching features the song Birds by Imagine Dragons and its animated music video. Students talk about music and the band Imagine Dragons, do a google search race in groups, participate in a running dictation (biography race), play a kahoot! (optional), watch a video, write a short narrative, do a listening exercise with the lyrics (optional) and talk about the song and the video.
Language level: (A2+) and aboveLearner type: All agesSkills: speaking, reading, listening and writingTopics: Music and life backgroundsLanguage: Vocabulary related to music, instruments and bandsMaterials: Youtube video, worksheets and mp3 file, mobile devices and Internet access (for the google search race and the optional kahoot!)Duration: 1 hour - 1h 30 minDownloadable materials: instructions; Google search worksheet; Biography Race Text + group Questions worksheet; Lyrics worksheet; song mp3
