MOBILITY 3. Creative Teaching in the Secondary and Adult Language Classrooom. The Lake School of English, Oxford, the UK. Montse Bultó. Day 10

SONGS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

• Choose 8/9 words from a list and write them in a grid (it may be suggested that they all write one in the middle). Listen and stand up whenever they hear the word OR play Bingo. 
• Work with pictures: brainstorm words from pictures and put them in order as they hear the words in the song + pick the nouns in the chorus and what's the verb that goes with them (Bruno Mars Grenade)
• Put pieces in order or battle for the pieces.
• Work with homophones.
• Work with the story of a song or teach some history / culture, e.g. Ed Sheeran's Nancy Mulligan, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/troubles.
• John Lemon
• Use rhyme to anticipate the words or help fill in the blanks + write the next verse, e.g. Katie Melua's If you were.