ACTIVITY 1: WORKING WITH A SONG

After working in class activities from the book ‘Singing Grammar’ we thought it would be an interesting challenge to work on the specific vocabulary of a song created by ourselves. After thinking about it, we decided to make a song about Halloween.

We remained satisfied with the result, so we decided to include it here below.  This song is thought to be worked in class using the rhythm of the song  ‘Thriller’ by Michael Jackson.

AIMS:

·         Language: Teaching English through music.

·         Other: Vocabulary about Halloween and pronunciation.

MATERIALS:

·         Photocopies of lyrics for each student.

TIMING: 25 Minutes.

PREPARATION:

·         Find or create a song.

PROCEDURE:

1.      In this session, students will work starting from this song:

2.      The teacher will hand out photocopies of the song lyrics. Students will listen to the song several times. They will read the lyrics while listening to the song. Each time the song ends, the teacher will give some explanations on the meaning of the words that students haven’t understood with the correct pronunciation.

SONG LYRICS:

I am a skeleton, skeleton.

I have a lot of bones.

And I am dancing on Halloween.

I am a monster, monster.

I have an ugly face

And I am dancing on Halloween.

I am a Frankenstein, Frankenstein

I have a very big head

And I am dancing on Halloween.

We are the monsters of Halloween

Today, we have a party

Because today is Halloween.

Source: Own elaboration.

3. Once students have listened to this song several times, students and teacher will dance this song wearing masks.

We are aware that by starting from this song, a great variety of activities could be designed. However, that wasn’t our idea, so we are just going to propose the song.  

Made by: Cristina Muñoz, Pablo Pérez.