How can we make learning better? Use your vast music library to engage students and wake-up their days.

1. MUSIC
WHAT FOR?
By: Stuart from Virginia, USA

2. Oliver Wendall Holmes suggests
taking a musical bath once a
week, saying that music is "to
the soul what water is to the
body."

4. Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.
Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.

5. Someone to love,
Somebody new.
Someone to love,
Someone like you.
Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.

6. Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.
Yeah, love me do.
Whoa, oh, love me do.

7. Benefits of Using Music:
Improves memory
Brings a sense of community to a
group
Motivates learning
Relaxes people who are
overwhelmed or stressed

8. “Music stabilizes mental, physical and emotional
rhythms to attain a state of deep concentration and
focus in which large amounts of content
information can be processed and learned.” Chris
Brewer
Aloe Blacc

9. Techniques for Using Music with ESL Learners
Music can be used to:
Introduce a new theme or topic
Break the ice in a class where students don't
know each other or are having difficulty
communicating
Change the mood

10. SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK
Lolly Lolly Lolly Get your Adverbs here
Music is effective when REVIEWING OR
INTRODUCING NEW MATERIAL

11.  Review material
 Teach pronunciation and intonation
 Teach songs and rhymes about difficult
grammar and spelling rules that need
to be memorized
 Teach reading comprehension

12. Helps people absorb material
Makes learning fun
Teach and build vocabulary and
idioms
Inspire a class discussion
Teach listening for details and gist

13. A new day, oh.. Oh..
A new day, oh.. Oh..
I was waiting for so long
For a miracle to come
Everyone told me to be strong
Hold on and don't shed a tear
Through the darkness and good times
I knew I'd make it through
And the world thought I had it all
But I was waiting for you

14. Hush, now
I see a light in the sky
Oh, it's almost blinding me
I can't believe
I've been touched by an angel with love
Let the rain come down and wash away my tears

15. Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new sun
A new day has... Come
Oh...
Where it was dark now there's light
Where there was pain now there's joy
Where there was weakness, I found my strength
All in the eyes of a boy
Hush, now

16. I see a light in the sky
Oh, it's almost blinding me
I can't believe
I've been touched by an angel with love
Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new sun
A new day has...

17. Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new sun

18. A New Day
Cloze Exercise

20. 10 activities for you to try as a teacher in a
classroom:
Use background music such as classical, Celtic music
or natural sounds to inspire creativity
Teach your national anthem
Teach a song that uses slang expressions

21. Teach a song that uses a new tense you
have introduced
Add variety to your reading comprehension
lesson.
Teach Christmas vocabulary through
traditional carols

22. Write or choose a classroom theme song
Create (or use already prepared lessons) cloze
exercises using popular song lyrics
Create variations to familiar songs by making
them personal for your class members or your
lesson

23. Have "lyp sync" contests. Allow students to
choose their own songs. A little competition
goes a long way in the classroom.

24. ADELE

25. I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now
I heard that your dreams came true
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you
Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light

26. I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited
But I couldn't stay away,
I couldn't fight it I had hoped you'd see my face and
that you'd be reminded
That for me, it isn't over
Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you, too
Don't forget me, I begged,
I remember you said

27. Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts
instead
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts
instead
You know how the time flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
We were born and raised in a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days

28. I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited
But I couldn't stay away,
I couldn't fight it I had hoped you'd see my face and that
you'd be reminded
That for me, it isn't over yet
Never mind, I'll find someone like you I wish nothing but
the best for you, too
Don't forget me, I begged, I remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead,
yeah

29. Can you pick out the PAST TENSE words?

30. Group Project
Think of some ideas/exercises that you could use to
incorporate Music in your classroom
Each group should be able to think of three or
four.

32. Teaching Kids with Music
Here are some suggested activities to use with kids:
Transition songs: that indicate transitions from one activity
to another, such as "hello/goodbye" songs.
Energy boosters: Teach simple action songs that require
kids to stand up and move around.
Animal songs: Children love learning about animals! Teach
animal songs.

33. Remembering Names: Help students remember
names of their classmates
Alphabet songs: Use lots of different alphabet
songs to help kids remember them in English.
Colors: Teach the colors with various color
songs and rhythms

34. SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK
Conjunction Junction- what’s your function?

35. Rewards: Let them make requests for
background music that they can listen to while
they work on their written exercises.
Student teachers: Encourage the kids to teach
each other English songs. Turn this into an
English lesson by having students translate the
meaning.

36. “Musical nourishment which is rich in vitamins is
essential for children."
Zolton Kodaly