Teachers can use songs to make learning fun and help students practice vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and culture. Songs engage the brain and motivate learning through repetition and rhythm. Teachers can use songs for activities related to vocabulary like clapping games, omitting letters, or comparing styles; grammar like tenses, questions, or expressions; and culture like typical songs from different times or places. Teachers can find suitable songs on pages like Dream English, Anglomanicy, and Teach Children ESL that organize songs by topic, include descriptions, and allow downloading.

1. LEARNING WITH
SONGS
Sara Falagán Izquierdo
Isabel Rojo Santamaría
Elena Castro Queipo

2. Why should teachers use song to teach?
● Easily and funny
learn
● Practice is important
● A tool that can be
read, heard and
demostrated in
group.

3. We can teach with songs...
Vocabulary. It isn't a new method.
Animals, parts of the body or action verbs.
Pronunciation. Sounds are recognized and
pupil repeat them. Attention to the sound.
Grammar. Extract grammatical structures and create
examples.
Culture. Where do they come from?
What kind of song are they?

4. 'The brain love music'
Motivation Repetitive Rhythm
Social Active Adaptable

5. WHICH ACTIVITIES CAN
TEACHERS DO?
VOCABULARY
Repetitions with claps
Specific topics
Omitting letters
Make mistakes
Movement
Internalize daily activities
Different styles or rhythms with the same song.

6. WHICH ACTIVITIES CAN
TEACHERS DO?
GRAMMAR
Comparisons of tenses
Question-answer songs
Action verbs
Riddles
Specific expressions
Try to sing a
repetitive melody

7. WHICH ACTIVITIES CAN
TEACHERS DO?
CULTURETypical country songs
Songs from different times (Halloween, Christmas...)
Daily Habits
The origin of songs:
transmit the tradition.

8. WHICH ACTIVITIES CAN
TEACHERS DO?
PHONETIC
Songs which they listen to on the radio (new songs)
Draw what music suggest
Correct pronunciation,
The words listened, have been seen written before

9. WHICH ACTIVITIES CAN
TEACHERS DO?
KARAOKE
Social activity.
Develop music.
Learning vocabulary,
culture, phonetics and grammar.
Personal skills:
*Competition.
*Loss of shame.
*Fun.

10. WHICH ACTIVITIES CAN
TEACHERS DO?
JAZZ CHANTS
Lots of possibilities to work with, even improvisation.
All ages, topics, grammar structures etc.
The main thing is follow the Jazz rhythm.

11. TYPE OF SONGS THAT YOU CAN FIND
In differents pages, you can find:
ABCs
■ Young students learn the value of the
letters in the English alphabet by
learning how to chant the ABCs.
■ This is a valuable lesson because it
incorporates the letters that are used
and the correct way to say them.

12. Vocabularly Chants
■ As students learn group
vocabulary words.
■ Then, create a chant.
Song Chants
■ Students learn the various songs that
they are chanting.
■ The vocabulary in those songs will
become an important part of what they
are learning.
http://www.ehow.com/way_5485987_chants-learning-english.html

13. PAGES
1. Dream Emglish
2. Anglomanicy
3. Teach Children ESL

14. DREAM ENGLISH
In this page you can find several Free Download Chants . The
chants are classified in diferents cathegories:
CATEGORIES
ABC PHONICS
ANIMALS
MONTHS
CLOTHING
DAYS OF THE WEEK
SPORTSHAPPY NEW YEAR
OPPOSITES
PLACES
Bibliography Link (1)

15. ANGLOMANICY
Games, grammar, expresions,
vocabulary and songs.
In this page you can find:
Some songs include
movement.
Some songs include
movement.
Bibliography Link (2)

16. TEACH CHILDREN ESL
Finally on this page there is a list of songs with their
description:
You known what like
the song is before
you download it.
Bibliography Link (3)

17. Bibliography
Carolyn Graham (2011) Seen on http://jazzchants.net/
BBC Teaching English (2012) 'Using songs in the classroom'
Seen on http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/tips/using-songs-classroom
David Deubelbeiss (2011) 'Using songs in the efl classroom'
Seen on http://www.slideshare.net/ddeubel/using-songs-in-the-efl-classroom
Types of songs. Seen on http://www.ehow.com/way_5485987_chants-learning-english.
html

18. http://dreaminenglish.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/teaching-children-english-
with-chants/ (1)
http://anglomaniacy.pl/carol3.htm (2)
http://www.teachchildrenesl.com/songs.htm (3)