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SONGS, RHYMES, and CHANTS

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Why songs, chants, rhymes and poems

• Music is highly memorable and motivating.

• They are ideal tools to be used in the language classroom.

• To introduce, reinforce and recycle structures and vocabulary.

• To develop all skills in an integrated way.

• To help improve all aspects of pronunciation: stress, rhythm and intonation of the target language.

• To present new language in a new, rich and imaginative context.

• To encourage physical involvement.

• To contribute to the learning of the cultural component of the language.

• To contribute to the development of a positive attitude towards the language learning.

• To help to develop a positive relation between teachers and students.

When ?

They can be used:

1. as a warm-up

2. as a transition

3. to introduce new language

4. as closers

5. to practise

6. revise language,

7. to celebrate 

HOW TO USE THEM

1. Set the context. What is the song about?

2. When necessary pre-teach vocabulary with visual

aids, actions, focus questions, realia, etc.

3. Make copies of the lyrics, cut lines or verses and

distribute the cut-outs to the pairs or groups, asking

them to order the song.

4. Play the song and stop every second line or so, for

students to check their versions and guess what

comes next.

5. Listen to the whole song.

6. Give each student a line of the song to

listen for. As they listen they have to arrange

themselves physically in the order they hear

their line.

7. Encourage students to use actions, drama

when singing the song.

8. Listen and sort. Students have the words

from two songs mixed together.9. Fill in gaps.

10. Perform as a whole class or in small groups: boys and girls, half class one line and the other half the second line, when there is question and answer, etc.

11. Encourage children to make a book with their favourite songs.

CRITERIA FOR CHOOSING A SONG/RHYME/CHANT. 

1. Are the children involved?

2. Would the children enjoy the song/rhyme/chant outside the classroom?

3. Is the song,… clear to understand and use?

4. Does the song have a good melody/rhythm?

5. Can those who are weak at English take part without feeling frustrated?      

WHAT TO DO WITH SONGS?• Gap fillers

• Unjumble the lines• Wrong word-correct• Rhyming words• Multiple choice• Illustrate• Group-reordering• Explore the theme-singer• Enjoy for own sake! The Elephant

song

SONGS, CHANTS BY ACTING

• In a cottage• 5 little ducks• The little blue train• 5 little green frogs• 1,2,3,3,4,5 once I caught a fish• Incy, wincy, spider• What’s the weather? The sun comes up • The okey kokey• Tufa-tafa• The skeleton dance• Apples and bananas• A sailor went to sea• The train chant: coffee, coffee• I am short, I am tall

FINGER SONGS AND CHANTS

• Tommy thumb

• Little Robby rabbit

• Stop that noise!

• 5 little monkeys

• 5 little elephants

• One grey elephant

GRAPPING, ORDERING, FILLING,…1. The owl city: grap the song

2. Four seasons: put the verses in order

3. People work:clap when hear a job word

4. The color song ( act out)

5. We're-going-the-zoo: bingo! ( write 5 words, prediction/ act the animal):

6. Changing the lyrics: What a wonderful world, The Autumn song

7. Listen and correct the mistakes: The waving flag

TONGUE-TWISTERS She sells sea shells from the sea shore.

Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butters’s bitter.

Finish fish is fresh fish.

Young Japanese girls in yellow jumpers.

Below the heavens and above the seas, Live wild berries and bumble bees.

COUNTING RHYMES Enee meeny minee mo.

1 potato, 2 potatoes,…

Skip dip, sky blue…

ROUTINE RHYMES 1, 2, 3 listen to me.

Macaroni and cheese…everybody FREEZE

1, 2, 3 look at me,4 and 5 do the jive6, 7, 8 concentrate!

Listen, listen, listen, everybody listen Silence, silence, silence, everybody silence.

REFLECTION TIME Rhythm/music: how did the children

respond to the rhythm or music?

Pronunciation: did it help to improve any particular aspects of pronunciation?

Memorization

Language used: according to their level?

Multiple intelligences

Songs, chants, poems

http://www.myvoxsongs.com/

http://bussongs.com/

http://www.kididdles.com/

http://www.songsforteaching.com/index.hml

http://www.supersimplesongs.com/