Xylophone and other instruments

 

I love just chatting to students where they use English without noticing how much they learn.

Waves

You know when you go to a gig or a match and the audience makes a wave by standing up right after their neighbour?

Vivaldi and other classics

Classical music is not my forte but I read it somewhere that it’s good to calm the easily excitable pupils.

Untangle the sentences

If a song is difficult or if the class is on elementary level, this can work better than fill in the gaps.

Tell the story

Even when people understand the words, it can be difficult to put together the big picture.

Snake and music

You know that game I think we all played around campfires when you have to give a word that starts with the last letter of the word from the previos person? Apparently it’s called The Snake Game.

Posters

Sometimes the course books give enough material that can be used creatively.

Mime “If you’re happy…” #atozchallenge

There’s so many versions of the song it’s unreal. I’ve never heard it but it makes sense that there is one version isn’t always about happy but other emotions as well.

Lost opportunity #atozchallenge

Since we’re talking about music here you’d be right to assume that it’s about that quirky little Queen song that surely must have been written in the dark corner of a quiet rundown pub, drunk or high or both, it’s not.

The Job Song

I don’t just haphazardly go around doing some random exercises that can somehow relate to music – no, sir (insert sad soldier voice for some unknown reason), there is structure in the madness.