Using+Music+to+Teach+English+Language+Skills


 * Created by: Flora Metrick – Tutor February 18, 2010 **

1. The power of music – brain research- music and memory- making learning fun
 * The Preface about “the voice”
 * The “experiment”
 * The bond of singing together

2. Music for Cultural Literacy and “being an American” ............. []
 * American “ patriotic” songs and songs that teach about America
 * Making up songs- nonsense songs ( children’s songs)
 * Piggy-back songs

3. Finding Lessons Using Music Online [] [] 4..Using songs to:
 * Build vocabulary
 * Understand contractions, tenses, idioms, slang
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Appreciate poetic language, figures of speech,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create lessons

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examples :

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Watch your students when listening to a song in English and following words. The looks on faces tell it all. Music transcends and transforms, relieves and releases. It is a gift that makes life more enjoyable and memorable. It is a tool for you to use.


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