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Great website for specially written grammatical songs.

http://www.letslets.com/teach_english.htm

Teaching Strategies with these songs.

Gap fills or close texts mix ups
Focus questions
True-false statements
Put these lines/words into the correct sequence
Indicate the word stress
Indicate the sentence stress
Phonetics and intonation
Dictation
Add verses
Add antonyms/synonyms of given words
Spirited discussion and creative writing.
Introduce slang in easy to remember context.

I agree with you. Songs can be effectively applied to language teaching and learning. They can not only increase levels of motivation, but can also make students more focused. The activities designed are able to incorporate four language skills into teaching and learning, so if handled properly, adding some songs occasionally to teaching class does good to language learning. But be careful when choose a song, it should be grammatically correct and meet the current language proficiency of the students. Otherwise it may not achieve the expected effect.

Also, never, ever force anyone over the age of 9 to sing themselves. Either pick the kind of stuff you know they would want to sing, or satisfy yourself with exposing them to the music.

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i am very glad to see you . i agree with you . i listen to the English everyday, i feel that the songs are useful for learn English . now in china , theaching English with song is so common, it is effectively applied to language teaching and learning.

At some degree, I agree with you. However, I have to say there is little difficult for me to listen to the songs clearly and fully. What do you think of it? It 's really hard at the first time for us to follow the song. We'd better to repeat again and again. What do you think of it?[/b]

I've been learning Spanish and the songs are very helpful, also children's books. It helps to remember words when they're organized into rhyming couplets and what-not!