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Teaching English with Song
Teaching English in Buenos Aires is fun, especially when you use creative lesson plans to enhance your student’s language skills.
Not only are songs helpful with pronunciation and word usage, but also they are easy to remember and hard to forget. I bet you can sing more than one from your childhood that you learned 20 years ago.
What Song to Use:
- It is important to make sure that the song is appropriate and goes with the lesson plan.
- The vocabulary is relevant.
- There are useful structure and grammar points
Lesson Plan Ideas:
- Fill in the blanks: give the students lyrics with some blanks. Have them listen to the song first and the second time they fill in the blanks. Who ever gets the most blanks, wins.
Tip: Use songs that are slower and more repetitive for beginners and try to find artists that really enunciate the words of
the song.
- Lyrical Puzzle: Put the lyrics on strips of paper and cut them up into pieces. Pass the lyrics to your students and have them listen to the song while they try to arrange the lyrics in the right order.
- Picture Puzzle: Find pictures that can be used in correlation with the lyrics of the song. Give students a different image from the song and then have them arrange the photos in the same order of the lyrics of the song.
Teaching English in Buenos Aires is a learning process for both you and your new students. Everyday you will come across new and creative activities for your students to learn and enjoy. There is no one right way to Teach English in Buenos Aires, just use your skills learned at the Expanish TEFL Course as a base and put your own spin on it.
Be the teacher you want to be helping students learn English in Buenos Aires.
