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Author Topic: Pop Music Lesson with fill-in-the-blank lyric worksheet and a listening game  (Read 22114 times)

Offline wolftashie

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Another excellent song to add to this good list is "My Love" by Petula Clark if you have already taught comparatives and superlatives.  Also, to see if they can get the humor, what about the songs by Flight of the Conchords?  They have hilarious songs and videos are funny to - it might be a little too adult-themed though.
TEECHA! SONG TEECHA!

Offline Rhetorical

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Re: Pop Music Lesson with fill-in-the-blank lyric worksheet and a listening game
« Reply #21 on: September 14, 2011, 11:43:14 PM »
brilliantly fun and useful lesson, thank you!! :D

Offline Yangook

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Excellent lesson, worked like a charm to fill in an extra class. The kids loved it - I've never seen some of them listen that hard! I'll be recommending it to all my friends teaching at high school.

Couple of changes I made to make life easier on myself:
At the start of the lesson I stuck a postit note in the centre of each desk, said if they behaved we'd use it for a game. Confusing enough to keep them interested. Once we started the listening game, the postit was what they slapped and where they kept track of their points, then at the end they wrote the winner's name on it so I could see who to give a prize to.

Instead of choosing a different phrase in each of the songs, I used their titles, for example in 'Call Me Maybe' they were listening for the words 'Call Me Maybe'. The songs I used (got through about 10 in a class I think) were:
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepson
Beautiful - Eminem
We Are Young - Fun
Somebody That I Used To Know - Glee version
Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake
Plug In Baby - Muse
I'm Not Okay - My Chemical Romance
Little Things - One Direction
Fireflies - Owl City
Hey There Delilah - Plain White Ts
By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
On The Radio - Regina Spektor
Umbrella - Rihanna
Love Story - Taylor Swift
Titanium - Madilyn Bailey acoustic version
A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

I was trying to get a mix of genres while keeping all lyrics and videos school-appropriate. Took me ages to check through all the videos so hopefully this will save someone somewhere some time, though you may not feel the We Are Young/Umbrella/Plug In Baby videos are appropriate for younger students so check those out yourself. I downloaded all the videos using keepvid.com, which is a fantastic tool.

For the first gapfill, I used it as it is here, but I think it might work better with songs where the chorus is repeated - Yellow in particular they didn't catch first time through, so I had to keep rewinding. It's nice if they just have to wait for it to come round again.

Two thumbs up - fun and easy to set up, kids loved it, and it felt worthwhile :)

Offline NadinaV

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Hey,  this sounds really fun, and I would like to use it for my after-school class.  However, I'm confused as to what the students are doing.  Everytime they hear the name of the song, they have to slap their post-it?  Whoever slaps first gets the point?  You said they have to do a fill-in-the blank...do you have any of the worksheets? 

Offline NicknameHaHA

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You have obviously put a lot of work into this, thank you so much, excellent material here.
thank you so much

Offline Tangerine

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I'm using this lesson post exams and it is fabulous.

Here's an updated Ppt / worksheet with a more recent Justin Beiber and One Direction instead of Lady Gaga (because the Gaga music video the OP used is a bit porno for middle school IMO)

For the game I kind of randomly chose a bunch of songs:
Lady Gaga (just stop video before it gets a bit much) - "I want your love"
Justin Beiber - Pray - "Children and crying"
Oasis - Wonderwall - "I don't believe..."
Taylor Swift - Love Story - "Please don't go"
Micheal Jackson - Billie Jean - "Billie Jean"
One Direction - One Way - "I'm gonna SEE ya"
Katy Perry - Fireworks - "Baby you're a firework"
Justin Timberlake - Cry my a river - "cry me a river"
Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back - "Backstreet's back"

(Sorry no links - just search and load official music videos on you tube - make sure to load them up before class to avoid all the damned adverts)

Girls wanted to watch Justin Beiber's Boyfriend on repeat, the boys totally perved out over Taylor Swift. Success.

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THANK YOU!!

Offline Tangerine

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Re: Pop Music Lesson with fill-in-the-blank lyric worksheet and a listening game
« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2013, 12:32:44 PM »
Rebooting this exam for pre-Chusok / post mid terms for different classes.

As a warm up, each group got the lyrics for Friday I'm in Love by The Cure, cut up into stanzas. They had to listen and rearrange the stanzas.

New worksheet includes chorus from Taylor Swift's "Mean" ; Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are"; Katy Perry's "Roar" and Carolina Chocolate Drops "I am a Country Girl" because what the hell.

Then for the game, they turned their worksheet over and drew a circle with an X in the middle. To rehash: I wrote a lyric on the board and when they heard it they had to hit the X. 1 point for getting it, minus 1 for hitting at the wrong time. Once the (last) lyric had played I stopped it and loaded the next song while they argued about who won.

For the game, I used:

Little Mix - Wings
"I'm not listening"
"Wings are made to fly"

Train - Drops of Jupiter
"Talks like June" about 0:40
"Shooting Star" about 1:04
"Room to Grow" about 1:40 ish

One Direction - Little Things
"(all these) little things" 0:57

Miley Cyrus - Jolene
"Don't take my man" 0:20
"You don't know" 1:10

Loudin Wainwright III - the swimming song
"I swam in the ocean"
"I did a cannonball"

If we run out of time, I have the Korean version of Wings just for fun.

Offline springdaze7

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I used Katy Perry's "Firework" to help the students practice listening. On the first part, I provided 2 words and they had to choose the correct word. On the second part, I added extra words to the chorus and they had to scratch out the words that weren't in the song.
If you choose to use youtube.com, I recommend not showing them the video  (I can cover up the TV screen in my classroom) so the students can concentrate on listening.
Then I played the OP's slap game but I didn't use the music cards. I just had them stand on either side of a desk in front of the screen and be the first to slap it when they heard the lyrics indicated on the screen.

I used grooveshark.com to make and save the playlist ahead of time.
This lesson went over pretty well with even my usually lethargic 3rd graders.

Offline rdfierros

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Took this brilliant first plan and made it so the music's a little more recent. Also made a nice PPT and added a "talking about music" part so students can learn to talk about music.

Also the game a bit... added the clips to the PPT and gave each team flash cards so they have to hold up the correct card. Music clips are included in the PPT so the file is a little big...

There's a lesson plan that will explain.

Songs include:
Can't Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake
22 by Taylor Swift
Treasure by Bruno Mars
Sugar by Maroon 5
Like I'm Gonna Lose You by John Legend and Megan Trainor

and some other varieties!
« Last Edit: July 12, 2016, 05:03:51 PM by rdfierros »

Offline wonkavite

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  Well everything, including the worksheets, is in PowerPoint. How do I convert the PowerPoint music cards into a format that can be printed off and handed to the students?

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  Well everything, including the worksheets, is in PowerPoint. How do I convert the PowerPoint music cards into a format that can be printed off and handed to the students?

You should just be able to hit print and good to go... I switch the preferences a bit so that they print on both sides.

Offline lugubregondola

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Re: Pop Music Lesson with fill-in-the-blank lyric worksheet and a listening game
« Reply #32 on: September 06, 2016, 02:09:07 AM »
How do u download ppt files? I can't download them.

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Re: Pop Music Lesson with fill-in-the-blank lyric worksheet and a listening game
« Reply #33 on: September 26, 2016, 04:33:55 PM »
I took this amazing lesson and modified it to include more recent songs from 2015 and 2016. I've attached two different listening worksheets: one has a word bank with extra words that I used for my more advanced class, the other one has only the words they need (used for lower levels).

I also found that instead of doing the slap game, it was best in my classes to just have students  raise their hand when they heard the lyric in question.

P.S. I incorporated this into a lesson on the super-exciting grammar point "Can I help you?"/"Can you help me?", so feel free to delete those slides if you don't need them.

 

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