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[Kaypea]

Hi,

I don't have much experience with pop-song classes for middle school.

I'm thinking of doing this English version of G Dragon's Heartbreaker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPIu6pdQi8

I transcribed it. It's a good translation! And, you can sing these english lyrics along with the original. The timing matches. (Lucky for everyone in the office, I was only mouthing the lyrics... and wearing headphones, of course!)

But, he sings fast and there's a lot of words, so it wouldn't really make sense to have the kids memorize, or "learn", even part of it.

But... it's fun, and they can sing along with the chorus easily. I've shown the video to the kids. They think it's hilarious, and they can't help but sing along to the parts they know.

So, should I assign different partners of kids different parts of their songs, and have them interpret them into drawings? Make comix or posters? Then we can all rock out and sing the chorus. I even have a kareoke mike, we can take turns being whitey G Dragon.

I don't have experience with song classes for this age, and I'm not a real singy-dancy type. Any suggestions would rock.

[Fishead soup]

There are several ways to teach songs.

Cloze activities words deleted students listen fill in the blanks. Play song two or three times students listen and fill in the blanks. Afterwards students sing.

Strip songs- Lyrics cut into strips and fastened together with a paper clip. Students listen in groups and arrange song in the correct order afterwards they sing the song.

Last one standing- This one comes from EFL Classroom 2.0
Teacher picks random words that appear in the song. Students choose a word and write it on an A-4 piece of paper. Students listen when they hear their word they should either sit or stand first team with all their members sitting/standing wins.

[Kaypea]

Cool. We're doing teacher's special song.

[El Macho]

I know this should go without saying, but the cloze method is especially good if you use to it reenforce a grammar point or vocab taught in class. (So, when I taught the subjunctive in Spanish class, I would use Juanes' song "A Dios Le Pido", which is all in the subjunctive.)

[ilovebdt]

I did YMCA with my high schoolers.

Another way is to choose words in the text which have a similar sounding equivalent and the students have to circle which of the two words they hear.

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[ilovebdt]

[zipper]

[jmuns]

you should look at teaching 'Insomnia' by Craig David. Wheesung did the korean version of it after craig david asked him too. i did it in my high school class and the kids really like it. all of them have heard wheesungs version and some/most will know the english version as well. both videos are on youtube, and with subtitles too. you can use lyric sheets and have them fill in the lyrics, then explain the language used in the song to see if they understand what he is singing about. then you can have them talk about their favorite artists/genres/songs/videos/etc...

[Kaypea]

[jmuns]

cloze. i gave them the lyrics with random words deleted, easy ones though, and then let them listen to the song once through trying to fill in the words. then i went over it with them to see which ones they got, and paid attention to the ones they didnt. then i would have the focus on that section of the song next time through, and repeat the process. if they didnt get them the second time, i would stop the video, let them know the part was coming up, and we would listen to only that line of the song. they always got it after that. then i just used random lines from 'insomnia' like "i was all messed up" for example to see if the understood what he means. then we listened to wheesungs version and i had them compare them, who has the better video, dances better, more fun, better singer, etc.

[Kaypea]

Yay lesson done! Thanks