When I see my kids also love the songs that I use during my lessons, I become
so pleased -of course. I love it when they sing them even during breaks.
Recently, with my 3rd graders we have talked about present
continuous tense and I used "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden. Not only
has the song got a story, but also the music is fun. I gave them a handout
where they can complete the blanks using the target tense. I used my Microsof
Word magic and write the necessary verbs inside a leaf =)
Before listening to the song, they try to guess what the blanks might be and some of them guessed correctly. Then we listened, but it took 3
times for them to complete successfully. I remembered my CELTA teacher saying
"Students can listen even 20 times! Play the song as many times as they
can fully understand." Then we talked about it.
-When is he sitting?
-What is the weather like?
-Is he happy? Why/not?
-Is this a happy song?
-What does he need to be happy? (you can add more)
Then we watched an animated video with lyrics, but there is a
mistake in the video. So I asked them to find the mistake -if they can, one
sticker is waiting for them. If you can, you can also have your sticker =)
Here is the video:
And here you can download the PDF form of this handout:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzi_uqEZ0_7qLU56SEY2eGRobnc/view?usp=sharing
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