{"id":2178,"date":"2020-09-08T07:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2178"},"modified":"2024-05-17T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:31:07","slug":"activity-ideas-with-songs","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/blog\/activity-ideas-with-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKR&#8217;s Recommendation: Our Top 5 Activity Ideas With Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some activity ideas with songs we have for you to exploit the many many opportunities songs offer:<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >1. Tap out the rhythm!<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask a learner to tap the rhythm of a song or nursery rhyme everyone is familiar with. <strong>Can the class find out which song it was?<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If tapping out the rhythm is too challenging, they can hum the tune as well. In both cases, sing the song together after the activity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can be a great warm-up activity for new topics.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >2. Recreate the nursery rhymes\u2019 lyrics!<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ts-list ts-list-style-icon ts-list-icon-color-skincolor ts- ts-icon-skincolor ts-list-textsize- ts-list-icon-library-fontawesome\"><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">What else does Old MacDonald have on his farm?<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">What else did the three little kittens lose? Who else is swimming in the sea besides the shark family?<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Gather ideas and continue the songs! <\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">You may want to use the karaoke version of these well-known songs in the BOOKR Class library, too.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >3. Who is the loudest?<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Form two groups who stand in two separate lines 20 metres away from each other. One learner stands between the two groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each group has to choose a song to sing at the same time. Which song can the learner in the middle recognise first?<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >4. Train your students\u2019 listening skills with songs!<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everybody loves listening to music in their free time, so <strong>ask each student to write their favourite song on a piece of paper,<\/strong> pick one weekly and create a listening task with a gap-filling exercise from the lyrics.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >5. Can you do better?<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encourage your learners to tap into their potential and rewrite lyrics of popular songs. Can they turn simple sentences into more sophisticated texts? Can they change the trivial content into something meaningful? <strong>Turn text analysis into a creative writing task. <\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >+1 From song to letter<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ts-list ts-list-style-icon ts-list-icon-color-skincolor ts- ts-icon-skincolor ts-list-textsize- ts-list-icon-library-fontawesome\"><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Choose a song the artist may have written as a direct message to somebody.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">It can be a love song, a mad song or a song asking for an apology.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\"> Listen to the song and check the lyrics together with the class.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Then, ask them to write a letter on behalf of the singer in which they formally express all the singer\u2019s feelings and emotions.\n<\/span><\/li><\/ul>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4><b>Join our teacher community and enjoy our further activity tips and teaching resources.<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ts-vc_btn3-container  primaryButton ts-vc_btn3-center\"><a class=\"ts-vc_general ts-vc_btn3 ts-vc_btn3-size-md ts-vc_btn3-shape-round ts-vc_btn3-style-flat ts-vc_btn3-weight-yes ts-vc_btn3-color-skincolor\" href=\"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/get-started\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Click to Join<\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songs are a great means of learning a language: they are fun to listen to, a great confidence-boosting experience if students can understand parts, useful for pronunciation, and thanks to their catchy melodies, really easy to memorise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8859,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[80,61,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookrs-recommendation","category-teaching","category-tips-tricks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11940,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2178\/revisions\/11940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}