Music
Here you can find the teaching activities that we have prepared using music
Music can change the feeling of learning and is one of the ways our cognitive skills remind our emotional self that life is joyful (Scripp, 2003).
Musical sounds charge the brain, stimulating whole brain involvement. Through songs and music, students increase general vocabulary, fluency and understanding. Music develops listening skills, and listening is a main pillar of language learning.
Music attracts attention so it has the potential to increase time on task and qualitatively improve thinking while learning. These attributes account for music’s ability to increase both learning efficiency and retention (Campbell, 1998).
Jensen (2000) explains: “The more educators use music to assist in learning other materials, the more quickly and accurately the material will become embedded.”
Music is a form of beauty that can transform any environment, charging us with aesthetic responses. Students and teachers immersed in music are uplifted and energized.
To be happy is an educational goal not to be dismissed (Noddings, 2005).
MUSICKING A STORY
Written A2
Story telling using linking words such as “first” “then” “after that” “later” and “because” /Continuing a text and add missing parts
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SNOWMAN
2 Spoken production
Giving and getting instructions
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HOW DO YOU SPELL IT?
A1 Spoken Production
Giving personal information and providing correct spelling of it
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THE DEN
A2 Spoken production
Summarizing what students have read or heard
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I am a music man
A2 Writing Production
Story telling using linking words such as “first”, “then”, “after that”, “later”, “because”
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STOP AND ANSWER THE QUESTION
READING A1
Finding what they need in simple informative texts
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What are they singing about?
Spoken Production A2
Summarizing what they have read or heard
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Poems About Your City
A1 Written
Text production using simple sentence connectors such as “and” “but” “then”
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