The Power Of "Song"

 Aim                  : To revise the vocabulary of the past verbs.

Preparation     : You will need a sheet of paper with missing lyric and audio device. Make flashcards of past verbs or elicit some those verbs on the whiteboard. The verbs may include regular and irregular form; took, read, wrote, left, was, went, ran, had, said, fell, heard, caught, told, married, kept, got, tried. On another side of the card you may write the infinitive form of those verbs.

 Procedures

1.    Show the flashcards of the verbs or elicit them on the whiteboard. After that, you may have some drilling activities such as search word game, snake and ladder game, or another activity.

2.    Distribute the missing lyric to the whole class or ask the students to have group/pair work. Tell them that they have a missing lyric activity by filling the gaps of the song while listening to the song.

3.    Play the song twice or three times.

Alternative ways of using song in the classroom;

1.    Play a video of a song with its lyric and ask the students to write down/jot down the target language which is learnt, for example learning the use of modals, “to and infinitive”, past sentences, etc.

2.    Play a song to learn pronunciation of certain target language, for example learning the sound of suffixes “-ed and –d”.

Here are few of songs can be used:

·         “Don’t cry Joni” to study past verbs.

·         “I just called to say I love you” to study the use of “to and infinitive”.

·         “Always” to study the use of modal auxiliaries.

the missing lyric sheet would be;

“don’t cry Joni” Jimmy please ______ you’ll wait for me I’ll grow up someday you’ll ______ Saving all my kisses just for you, signed with love forever true Joni _____ the girl who lived next door I’ve known her I guess 10 years or more Joni ________ me a note one day And this is what she ______ to say Jimmy please _____ you’ll wait for me I’ll grow up someday you’ll _____ Saving all my kisses just for you, signed with love forever true Slowly I _____ her note once more Then I _______ over to the house next door Her tear drops ______l like rain that day When I ______ Joni what I had to say Joni Joni please don’t ______ You’ll f________ me by and by You’re just fifteen I’m twenty two And Joni I just can’t _______ for you

Soon I ______ our little hometown _______ me a job and tried to settle down But these words _______ haunting my memory The words that Joni _____ to me Jimmy please _____ you’ll wait for me I’ll grow up someday you’ll ______ Saving all my kisses just for you, signed with love forever true I packed my clothes and I ______ a plane I _____to see Joni, I had to explain How my heart was filled with her memory And ask my Joni if she’d marry me I ______ all the way to the house next door But things weren’t like they _____ before My tear drops ______like rain that day When I ______ what Joni had to say Jimmy, Jimmy please don’t _____ You’ll ______ me by and by It’s been five years since you’ve been gone Jimmy I ______ your best friend John.