Использование песенного материала на уроках английского языка

Использование песенного материала на уроках английского языка

На примере песни I can see clearly now ( Hothouse Flowers)

Before listening activity

• Think as many words related to the weather as you can. Write them down.
• Make a word map

spring

winter

The weather

summer

autumn

While listening Activity 1

• Listen to the song and tick any words from your word map that you hear. Add any new words to your map.

lyrics

Lyrics

• I can see clearly now the rain has gone I can see all obstacles in my way Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind It's going to be a bright, bright sunshiny day I think I can make it now the pain has gone And all of the bad feelings have disappeared Here is the rainbow I've been praying for It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day Look all around there's nothing but blue skies Look straight ahead nothing but blue skies I think I can make it now the pain has gone And all of the bad feelings have disappeared I can see clearly now the rain has gone It's gonna be a bright, bright Sunshiny day

Activity 2

• Each line contains two extra words that are not in the song.
• In pairs read the lines and identify any extra words.

Listen for the extra words

• I can see really clearly now the heavy rain has gone
• I can see all obstacles and people in my way
• Gone are big dark clouds that often had me blind
• It’s going to be a long, bright sunshiney summer day
• I think I can actually make it now the terrible pain has gone
• And nearly all of the old, bad feelings have disappeared
• Look, here is the bright rainbow I’ve been praying for
• It’s going to be a long, bright, bright sunshiny summer day
• Look all around you, there’s nothing but clear, blue skies

Check if you are right

• Key

• really, heavy
• and people
• big, often
• long, summer
• actually, terrible
• nearly, old
• Look, bright
• long, summer
• bright, summer
• you, clear

Activity 3

• Prepare questions to find out if the statements are true or false (in pairs)
• For example: Do you prefer summer or winter?

• Half the group prefers summer to winter.
• Nobody likes going out in the heavy rain.
• Everyone hates thick fog.
• Only one person’s favourite season is autumn.
• Two people prefer windy days to sunny days.
• Everyone enjoys seeing a rainbow.
• 90% of the group never play in the snow.
• 30% of the group feel sad when it’s cloudy
• Most people prefer to be outside when it’s hot and sunny.
• Nobody minds thunderstorms.

Check the questions with the whole class

• In groups of five divide the questions so that each person in the group has two questions to ask the others.
• When you have all the answers, report the results in the class.
• Example: Everybody in our group prefers summer to winter