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Carolyn Graham created "Jazz Chants", which are upbeat chants and poems that use jazz rhythms and patterns to illustrate the natural stress and intonation of spoken English. The chants are designed to make learning English pronunciation more engaging for students by incorporating elements of jazz music. The excerpt provides an example chant that humorously describes someone trying to speak Spanish but not being very good at it.
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Editor's Notes
- Welcome to the webinar! Today we’re going to practice using a wonderful tool for you and your students – Carolyn Graham’s jazz chants. When I say practice I mean just that. I hope to have you all clapping and chanting along with me so you’ll feel comfortable using them with your students. The only way to learn to use them is by doing it. So you’ll get lots of practice today! POLL QUESTIONS: have you heard of jazz chants? have you tried using them? do you feel comfortable with them?
- So who is Carolyn Graham? She’s an ESL teacher by day and jazz pianist by night. She tells the story of how the idea came to her. She was playing piano in a jazz club in New York City and she over heard someone say “Gee it’s good to see you, you look wonderful.” and realized it had a very clear, jazzy rhythm. She decided this might help her students learn to hear and produce the rhythmical patterns of spoken American English. And jazz chants were born!
- Equipment: I usually use a BB or flip chart paper to write longer, more complex chants and mark them for the students, but you can do them with just yourself – clapping your hands, snapping your fingers, or tapping on a desk or table or your thighs. And BEST OF ALL, you don’t have to know how to sing or play a musical instrument. When Jenny asked me to do this workshop, at first I thought that she should find someone more musical, but then I realized I am reallly the perfect person to do this because I’m proof that you DON”T have to be musical!
- If you attended my webinar on pronunciation, this will sound familiar to you! If not, I’d like to spend a few minutes talking about why I love jazz chants and how useful they can be as a tool for helping your students understand how spoken English works. So, let’s talk a little about English stress and rhythm.
- explain any new vocab or idioms, discuss the context for the chant With that in mind, I’m going to teach you a chant. So let’s do it orally first, then I’ll show you the written form.
- Obviously this is a wonderful chant for practicing the grammar pattern using the past progressive and simple past to contrast an ongoing action and one that happens and is finished. This rhythm pattern uses the focus stress words as the main beats. You could also do it – NEXT SLIDE Note that you could beat the rhythm slightly differently, using
- rhythm is a great memory tool so use it for those pesky irregular past tenses You can have two groups and alternate the lines.