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Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic and Taylor Swift, with the text overlay "Amp Up Your ESL Warm-Up: 2023 Song-Based Activity for B2 Level."

Amp Up Your ESL Warm-Up: 2023 Song-Based Activity for B2 Level

June 8, 2023 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Discover a fresh, engaging way to warm-up your B2 level English classes. This 2023 song-based activity, featuring lyrics from OneRepublic and Taylor Swift, stimulates critical thinking and lively discussions. Get ready to hit the right note in your ESL lessons!

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Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero song used in ESL lesson plan with memory game.

Engaging English Lesson: Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” – Vocabulary & Memory Game

November 14, 2022 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Dive into the world of English teaching with Taylor Swift’s hit song “Anti-Hero”. This step-by-step lesson plan combines vocabulary development and a memory game to boost your ESL classroom engagement. Perfect for B1/B2 levels, this innovative approach will refresh your teaching methods and captivate your students.

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Teaching With Songs: Musical Biography + Song Pieces with Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato & Taylor Swift

March 28, 2021 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Lesson at a Glance: Musical Biography + Song Pieces (Pop Queens) The Experience: Students explore the biographies of four major pop icons—Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez,

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Teaching with songs: Cardigan (Taylor Swift Song Activity + Song-based Lesson Plan For ESL

July 31, 2020 Márcia Bonfim (Mars)

Lesson at a Glance: Cardigan – Taylor Swift The Experience: Students step into the atmospheric world of Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” through a multi-sensory “Jigsaw Viewing”

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“Months ago I discovered Song Activity Factory: I was very impressed. In fact it offers lesson plans based on trendy songs AND it features great

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I just wanted to say thank you to Márcia, her website Song Activity Factory has helped me in so many ways. I started teaching online

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Song Activity Factory is the perfect way to make your students get the language “Under their skin” (any coincidence with the song is only a

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Song Activity Factory is for sure one of the greatest websites available to help ESL teachers in the new journey of online teaching. It takes

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Dear Márcia,  You are un(and I really have to use the F word here!)believable!  I requested this song about 3-4 days ago and in this short

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Marcia, I don’t know if I’ve ever told you how much I love your activities! Every time I open my email and find a different

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I always use Song Activity Factory and I’ve had such great experiences with my students. It’s possible to work with different skills of language, making

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Song Activity Factory has been a fantastic addition to my ESL classroom. My students specifically requested to use it, and it turned out to be

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