So I work at a girls high school, and whenever i do this activity, it's always a hit. (not sure how boys will react to it.. i use a lot of boy groups haha)

But anyway, my girls love it when i translate lyrics

So I break them up into groups of 4~6, and even if some of their levels are low, there's usually at least one who can translate it decently

Then i show them a part of the song (translated from korean into english) and they have to guess the singer and the song title. (+5 for the right song, +5 for the right singer) i usually give them about 1 minute or so, and if they really don't know, i'll give small hints like, boy or female/  group, or solo, or unit (a few singers from one group), and a maybe a bit of the dance if i know it. and right before the class ends, i let the winning team choose a song to listen to

I speak a little bit of korean, and i know some groups, so i always make sure it's a part of the song where there's not too much english. then it would be too easy. of course i mix in easy ones, but i always have a few hard ones as well

i try to pay attention to what they talk about in class (in terms of groups) and then i use their songs

btw some relative groups right now are: exo, got 7, btob, infinite, beast, apink, girls day, 2ne1, big bang, vixx, orange caramel, mblaq, iu, shinee, girls generation, block b, b1a4... my girls really like them

Here's one example of the activity.

Just thought I'd share! I would love some feedback. Enjoy ^^

Ah my korean isn't that good haha. I just search on a kpop translation website, and then I just double check it to make sure it's a good translation and change as needed.

Hope it goes well for you too~

Your lesson should come with a warning......Screaming ensues! My girls loved this! The screaming and subsequent singing (and some dancing) was a joyous sight indeed. The boys did not fair so well but they enjoyed guessing. Will keep this handy for fillers if a class ends a little early. I hope you will post the next installment. Great lesson, simple and successful! Thank you!

Your lesson should come with a warning......Screaming ensues! My girls loved this! The screaming and subsequent singing (and some dancing) was a joyous sight indeed. The boys did not fair so well but they enjoyed guessing. Will keep this handy for fillers if a class ends a little early. I hope you will post the next installment. Great lesson, simple and successful! Thank you!

haha! yea i should have mentioned that! girls and their kpop bands
i guess with the boys, it would be better to add some girls groups in there next time around

i'm really glad they enjoyed it~

Thanks.  I'll be using this as filler for my music-based camp.

Do you have guessing1.ppt ?

i do, but for this one, i used a few slides from another person on this website (i'd like to give them credit but i for who)
anyway, the first ten slides are the lyrics again. (some of them are pretty easy, so they'll be able to guess right away)
and the following 8 slides are true and false questions (these are the ones i got from a fellow waygook) - for this a cut up some paper and wrote true on one piece, false on the other. and gave one set to each group.

this lesson always seems to run a little short for me. but i've been able to fill the time with a song, or talking. but if you can't do that then you might want to go slowly or add some more lyrics or true/ false questions of your own~

Omg, Dana, thank you so much for this ppt! What a simple-yet-fantastic idea!

I will try this on my middle schoolers. It might be a little too hard for them, but it's worth a try. If they're the big fans of Exo and Girls Generation that they say they are, they should be able to recognize some of the words... maybe??

Keeping my fingers crossed.


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Great~ I hope things work out! :)

My students were insanely into this..... There's a school concert coming up so it fit nicely into my year plan...............

I really recommend this to anyone 50/50 on using it....

Great work and thanks.....

holla my chingus.

i only have 1 day of classes this week due to speaking tests and the Suneung, so i took some time to pimp out this game a bit. i also changed out some of the songs, but mostly it's a combination of songs from game 1 and 2 posted earlier. there's now two A-pink songs because i think they all have lovely bottoms. +10 internets to you if you get that reference  there's also mainly girl groups now because i teach all-boys, and they like looking at the pretty ladies.

there's 2 versions of this i've done here:

Version 1: this has the music videos embedded, and you can grab it from my Google Drive. Be warned, the file size is very large (600MB+) so it's not something to download quickly 5 minutes before class starts. The RAR file has everything you need in it, including the videos themselves if the embedding isn't working.

I had to use live versions for some of the songs because they just weren't downloading. maybe there's a download block on them or something. and i used the Robotaki remix for G-dragon - A Boy because i think it's way better than the original.

DOWNLOAD LINK

Version 2: this is much smaller, and only has pictures when the answers come up. there aren't any embedded or hyperlinked videos or anything.

To extend this lesson i've also done a worksheet where the students must translate the songs into English. there's 8 because i have 8 groups in my classes. they're the same songs as in the Powerpoint because i'm only doing this lesson with 3 classes tomorrow, couldn't really see the point in racking my brains and finding 8 new songs.

You can grab the worksheet from the attachment here, or if you download the RAR file it's in that too. just get them to write on that page or on the back or on some scrap paper or something.

If there's still time at the end you can get them to sing the English lyrics they've translated and the other teams should try guess the song.

that's it, i'm out, off to the hospital now because my ears are bleeding from listening to too much k-pop prepping this lesson. pray for me.

EDIT I've uploaded the answers to the translation worksheet if some of your co-teachers just flat-out refuse to help students with their work like mine do.

Props to you girl...
I think you just won the internet with this activity. It's absolutely good fun. And I know what my girls are like. They're gonna tear through this activity like a hot knife thru butter.

thanks for sharing.