This document describes a song lyric running dictation activity for a class of 20 students. The activity aims to engage students through reading, listening, speaking, and writing a song lyric as a competitive game. Students are split into two teams and take turns running to the front to dictate lyrics from memory to their teammate, who writes them on the whiteboard. The team that accurately writes the lyrics in the correct order wins. The activity utilizes multiple intelligences and learning styles to foster student autonomy while having fun.

1. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
ACTIVITY: SONG LYRING RUNNING DICTATION AND COMPETITION
AUTHOR: MARIABELL CENTENO DE PINEDA
INSTRUCTOR: DIANA GOUGH
COURSE: TET
June 25th, 2011

2. Activity: Song lyric running dictation and competition
Objectives:
1. To engage learner in Reading a lyric of a song in a fun activity
2. To practice listening, speaking, reading and writing through a game competition
3. To activate multiple intelligences through this activity: musical, kinesthetic, visual
4. To foster learner autonomy
5. To use kinesthetic and global learners learning styles
Procedure:
A group of 20 students
Time: 30 minutes
1. Before class, students choose a song they want to listen to in class.
2. First, students arrange themselves in two rows.
3. Second, students choose two students that will seat at the back and will read the lyrics
silently (these students will vary through the game).
4. Third, students choose two students who will be in front of the whiteboard copying the
lyric (these students will stayed at the front of the whiteboard).
5. Fourth, students pick up a name for their team, in this case, Team A: The Eagles, Team B:
The Lions.
6. Fifth, the students sitting at the back will run to the front dictate, as much as he/she
remembers of the lyric to his/her team member. The student at the front will write as
much as he/she can memorize and remember on the whiteboard. Accuracy and order of
the song is important.
7. Sixth, the students who were at the back, sit down in the first chairs of their corresponding
row and the students who were sitting in the first chairs of a row stand up, run to the back
read the lyric of the song, memorize as amuch as they can and run to the front to dictate it
to their team mambers who are writing the lyrics of the song in the whiteboard.
8. The sixth step is done several time until the 2on gis written on the board and all the
students sitting in the chairs have participated in the activity.
9. Finally, students listen to the song and sing it!
Rules:
1. The students who dictate can not write, only the students who at the whiteboard.
2. The team who dictates and write accurately and in organized form wins the competition
game. (A prize can be given, example: pencils, stickers, or candies)

3. SONG LYRIC RUNNING DICTATION AND COMPETITION
Here at the back are the song lyric, one copy per each team
Team A: The Eagles Team B: The Lions
Row A Row B
(At the front, the whiteboard should be in front of the rows)
Team A: The Eagles Team B: The Lions

4. SONG LYRIC: THE TIME BY EYED BLACK PEAS
LYRIC: The time
[Will.i.am]
I’ve had the time of my life
And I’ve never felt this way before
And I swear this is true
And I owe it all to you
[Fergie]
I’ve had the time of my life
And I’ve never felt this way before
And I swear this is true
And I owe it all to you
You-you-you-you-you
You-you-you-you-you
You-you-you-you-you-you-y-y-y-y-you
Dirty bit
Dirty bit
[Will.i.am]
I-I came up in here to rock
Light a fire, make it hot
I don’t wanna take no pictures
I just wanna take some shots
So come on, let’s go
Let’s lose control
Let’s do it all night
‘Til we can’t do it no mo’
People rockin’ to the sound
Turn it up and watch it pound
We gon’ rock it to the top
Until the roof come burnin’ down
Yeah, it’s hot in herrre
The temperaturrre
Has got these ladies
Gettin’ freakierrr
[Fergie]
I got freaky, freaky, baby
I was chillin’ with my ladies
I didn’t come to get bougie
I came here to get crazy
I was born to get wiiild
That’s my styyyle
If you didn’t know that
Well, baby, now you know now
‘Cause I’m!
Havin’!
A good! Time!

5. With you!
I’m tellin’ you
I’ve had the time of my life
And I’ve never felt this way before
And I swear this is true
And I owe it all to you
I’ve had the time of my life
And I’ve never felt this way before
And I swear this is true
And I owe it all to you
You-you-you-you-you
You-you-you-you-you
You-you-you-you-you-you-y-y-y-y-you
Dirty bit
Dirty bit
[Taboo]
All-all these girls, they like my swagger
They callin’ me Mick Jagger
I be rollin’ like a Stone
Jet-setter, jet-lagger
We ain’t messin’ with no maggots
Messin’ with the baddest
Chicks in the club
Honey, what’s up?
[apl.de.ap]
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who’s the baddest of them all?
Yeah, it’s gotta be the apl
I’m the mack daddy, y’all
Haters better step back
Ladies (don’t load your act)
I’m the party application
Rockin’ just like that
(This is international)
(Big mega radio smasher)
‘Cause I’m!
Havin’!
A good! Time!
With you!
I’m tellin’ you
I-I-I-I’ve had
The time of my li-i-ife
And I’ve never felt this way before-fore
And I swear-wear
This is tru-u-ue
And I owe it all to you-ou
Oh, I-I-I-I’ve had
The time of my li-i-i-ow

6. And I’ve never felt this way before-fore
And I swear-wear
This is tru-u-ue
And I owe it all to you-ou
I-I-I-I’ve had
The time of my li-i-ife
And I’ve never felt this way before-fore
And I swear-wear
This is tru-u-ue
And I owe it all to you-ou
Oh, I-I-I-I’ve had
The time of my li-i-i-ow
And I’ve never felt this way before-fore
And I swear-wear
This is tru-u-ue
And I owe it all to you-ou
Dirty bit.

7. REFERENCES
- Teach to students´ learning styles by Judie Haynes
- Teaching teenagers by Gary Anderson
- Teaching and learning languages through multiple intelligencies
- Pre-design images of WWW.
- Song lyric: The Time by Eyed black peas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTRg0nWyV8w www.Youtube.com