Choose a song

1. Task

• Choose a song in English with understandable lyrics
• Create a task for your classmates
• Give the task to your classmates
• Assess your classmates
• Assess yourself

2. Goals

• Develop listening skills
• Develop vocabulary knowledge
• Boost creativity
• Develop organizational skills
• Practice peer assessment

3. To think about:

• It shouldn’t be a song that everyone knows by heart
• Think about the level of difficulty. If no one can guess
anything, or everyone gets 100%, it’s your fault as a teacher
• Think about how you could also teach vocabulary by using
this task
• The song shouldn’t be too long or short (45 sec is optimal)
• The whole “lesson” should last 10-15 minutes, therefore,
you should have 3-4 different tasks

4. DON’TS (1)

Work, ______, work, ______, work,
______
He said me haffi
Work, ______, work, ______,
______, work
He see me do mi
Dirt, ______, ______, dirt, ______,
dirt
So me put in
______, work, ______, work,
______, work

5. DON’TS (2)

No boy can diss ____ or _________
Round here ain't safe, everybody need
______
16 shot, we go shotta any bluddah
Rah-ta, rah-ta
Ka-kah, ka-____, ka-kah
Rah-ka-___-ka-ka-rahh!

6. DON’TS (3)

Hard ________________
October ____________
A ________ so fleetingly free
Just how __________
Just how ___________
Just how _____________

7. Task formats

• Fill in the gaps (_________ or d_____t )
• Choose the correct option (a, b, c, d)
• Matching
• Choose from the list of words / a pair (been / bin)

8.

It's like you're trying to get to heaven in a _______
And the ________ was shorter than you _______ it would be
And the doorman says
You need / knit / neat to get a wristband
You got a lift between the p________s
But you're looking like you're low on energy
Did you get out and walk / work
To ensure you'd miss the quicksand?
Looking for a new place to __________
Feeling like it's hard to understand
But as long as you still keep peppering the
______
You'll find a way to _______ it out again
Begin
Pill
Spit
Feel
Peel
speed