1s.8 Avatars

Did you forget to create your avatars? Use these ones!

              Indiana Jones                                                                  Ally McBeal

1s.7 Can you spot it?

Exercise 1 - Easier

Spycat is looking for lost pets. Listen to the descriptions. Can you spot the pets? Click here.

Exercise 2 - Harder

A dragon is a fantastic creature. Some have wings, some have horns and claws and some breathe fire. Listen to the descriptions. Can you spot the dragon? Click here.

10 ideas for using songs in the classroom

Prepare any two of the following activities based on the lyrics of a song you like. When you finish, send the worksheet to raulmas.english@gmail.com to get feedback from me. Originality and attractive presentation will be rewarded!

1. Predicting words. Give students a song title and ask them to predict ten words from it. Students listen and check how many they guessed correctly.
2. Mistakes. Give students the lyrics of the song with mistakes (e.g. replace some words with their opposites). Students listen, identify them and correct them.
3. Complete the rhymes. Delete the last word of the second rhyming couplets in the lyrics. Students guess the missing word, then listen and check.
4. Scrambled lyrics. Cut the lyrics into paper strips. Students order them while they listen.
5. Missing lines. Delete some lines in the lyrics. Then scramble them in a box. Students listen and write them back in the correct place.
6. Gap fill. Leave gaps in the text. Concentrate on the language point you want to highlight: semantic fields, prepositions, verb forms, etc.
7. Pictures for words. Replace some words with pictures. Students guess the pictured words, then listen and check.
8. Picture story. If the song has a storyline, give students pictures and ask them to put them in order or on a timeline.
9. Slang. Students identify slang, colloquialisms, examples of varieties of English (e.g. American English).
10. Discussing issues. After listening to the song, the students discuss questions related to the main theme (e.g. racism, cultural differences, etc.)