4th grade, Songs, Unit 8 My Weekly Schedule,

Zuhal KARADOĞAN

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TEACHING WITH SONGS

Grade 4

Unit 8 My Weekly Schedule

Language Point: wh- questions

Vocabulary Point: School subjects ( Art, PE, Science, History, Music, Chess, Computer, English, Maths)

SONG

What's your favorite subject?
by Richard Graham

 
What's your favorite subject?
What's your favorite subject?
What's your favorite subject?
What's your favorite subject?

I like math (I like math)
I like art. (I like art.)
I like science (I like science)
I like P.E. ( I like P.E.)

(Repeat Chorus)

I like music (I like music)
I like English (I like English)
Social Studies (Social Studies)

PRESENTATION

Activity: Finding the unrelated items

Aim: Aim of this activity is to raise student awareness about the vocabularies they are going to hear in the song. This activity also aims to motivate students fro the lesson because using songs is enjoyable and interesting way of engaging students interests.

Materials: Song, worksheet ( which has a list of vocabularies)

Procedure:

·         Students  are given worksheets which have a list of vocabularies related to school subjects

·         Teacher asks students to find the words that they hear in the song

·         Students listen to the song (once)

·         After students find the words, they share results with the class.

PRACTICE

Activity: Listening to the song, singing the song

Aim:  Aim of this activity is to present new language in an enjoyable way.  It also aims to develop listening, speaking and pronunciation skills. Moreover, as there are many repetitions in the song, it will make students’ learning more permanent.

Materials:  Song( withvideo)

Procedure:

·         Students listen to the song (twice)

·         After listening to the song, teacher asks questions about the song ( Did you like it? Would you like to listen to once more? What is it about?  What’s your favorite lesson?)

·         Students and teacher listen to the song once more and perform it by looking at the people in the video

PRODUCTION

Activity: Making masks, creating dialogues

Aim: Aim of this activity is to help students to use the language they have learned for communicative purposes.

Materials:  paper, pen

Procedure:

·         Teacher asks students questions about their favorite cartoon characters

·         Teacher wants students to make masks of their favorite cartoon characters

·         After students make their masks, teacher divides them into groups and asks them to create their own songs about their favorite lesson

·          Groups wear their masks and sing their songs by using body language.

REFERENCES

http://genkienglish.net/teaching/school-subjects-song/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTqmE2qkL2k