The Learning Station: Action Songs

 Children will love this energizing collection of fun, interactive activity and dance songs. Exercise and learning go hand in hand. Regular brain breaks enhance attentiveness, concentration and focus. They accelerate learning by allowing children to release their energy, anxiety and stress. Brain breaks also increase circulation, promote physical fitness and coordination. These action, dance and movement songs make it easy to integrate brain breaks into your classroom. They are also great activity songs for physical education, group activities or indoor recess.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLearningStation

 

Lyrics Training

Do you like watching music videos? Do you like karaoke? If yes, LyricsTraining is just for you!

LyricsTraining is the new way to learn English and other languages through music and the lyrics of your favourite songs. Improve your listening comprehension and practice with different accents interacting with the best musical videos, filling the gaps in the lyrics and using the Karaoke. Thousands of teachers all over the world are already using LyricsTraining to teach languages and motivate their students through the linguistic inmersion process.

BRIT Awards 2016 Winner

"Hello" is a song by British singer Adele. It was released on 23 October 2015 as the lead single from her third studio album, 25 (2015). "Hello" is a piano ballad with soul influences, and lyrics that discuss themes of nostalgia and regret

Music in Class

There're so many benefits to using songs for learning English, such as developing listening comprehension, enriching vocabulary, drilling grammar (especially tenses), practising pronunciation, etc.
* Wanna teach/learn Present Simple? -  "She Loves You" by the Beatles; "Believe" by E. John;
* Past Simple? - "Yesterday" or "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles;
* Present Perfect Continuous? - "Hello" by Adele;
* Present Perfect? - "Show Must Go On" by the Queen;
* Shapes and forms? - "Shape Of My Heart" by Sting;
* Conditionals? - "Imagine" by John Lennon;
* Daily Routine vocab? - "Our House" by Madness;
* Religion Vocab? -  "Take Me To Church" by Hozier;
* Contractions? - "Feel" by Robby Williams;
* Troubles with Kids? -  lots of Nursery Rhymes.
And more...... as there're so many songs by other bands (not only of British origin) that can be used in teaching & learning: e.g.: "Tom's Dinner" by Susanne Vega or "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden which are fantastic for Present Continuous.

Here's a link to some of them:
http://www.tefltunes.com/grammarsongs.aspx

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/lyrics_and_songs.php

Music is everywhere

Music…

Is everywhere.

In the birds of the air.

In the hum of the honeybee.

In the song of the breeze

As it shivers the trees.

In the river that murmurs

Over the stones.

In the snow wind that moans.

In the surge of the sea

Lapping the shore.

In the roar of the storm

Rattling the door.

In the drum of the rain

On the windowpane.

Music is here.

Falling our ear.