Learning Through Song

1. Teaching Material:
Speaking
Learning Through Song

2. Guessing Song Game
(Students are asked to guess whether the singer, the title, or the genre of the song
while teacher singing the song)

3. Generic structures of Song:
• Introduction comes at the beginning of the song and contains just
music/instrument.
• Verse contains the details of the song, such as the story, the events,
images and emotions that the writer wishes to express and also to
support the chorus.
• Pre-Chorus functions the verse to transition into the chorus.
• Chorus contains the main idea, or big picture, of what is being
expressed and appears more than once in a song.
• Outro is a way of ending or completing the song.

4. Task 1 (Individual task)
Direction: Answer the meaning blanks on the table based on the lyric of the song.
You’ve Got a Friend in Me (ost. Toy Story)
By Randy Newman
[Verse 1]
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
When the road looks, rough ahead
And you're miles and miles
From your nice warm bed
Just remember what your old pal said
Boy, you've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
[Verse 2]
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
You've got troubles, well I've got 'em too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and we see it through
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
[Verse 3]
Some other folks might be
A little bit smarter than I am
Bigger and stronger too
Maybe But none of them will ever love you the
way I do
It's me and you, boy
And as the years go by
Our friendship will never die
You're gonna see
It's our destiny
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me

5. Task 1
Paragraph The meaning
Verse 1 Even we are so far away, just remember that you are always be
my bestfriend.
Verse 2
Verse 3

6. Task 2 (Pairing task)
Direction:
Now, think about your favorite song individually. Taking notes of the short
description and the moral message of your favorite song. Then, work in pairs to
discuss it with your chairmate. At the end, your will share the short description and
the moral message of your chairmate favorite song in front of the class that chosen
by the teacher.

7. Answer Key
Paragraph The meaning
Verse 1 Even we are so far away, just remember that you are always be
my bestfriend.
Verse 2 When you have a problem, i will be there to help you and we
will solve it together.
Verse 3 You will never be changed to someone else, although the
others are more smarter than you, because you are my
bestfriend.