a song activity to promote talking about musical interest, while practicing past tense.

1. Song activity

2. What kind of music relaxes You?
Can you play a musical instrument?

3. Can you read or write music?

4. Do you sing or play?

5. Someone is there waiting for my song
Aselin Debison
Opportunity for talking about songs, describing a video
using past tenses and making a class playlist.

6. Suggestions
• Split viewing:
Some students see and hear a clip; others don’t. A variety of
activities can then follow based on an information-gap procedure. In
this particular lesson those students who see and hear the video
report to the others what happened. This is particularly good for past
tenses.

7. First clip
Student one

8. Second clip
Student two

9. Write down
•Similarities
•Differences

10. Do you know all the words?
Ask your peers or look them up. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

11. What have you been listening to lately?

12. Choose some songs to create a class playlist to share and
post on our blog.