13.5.10

Lyrics training

A teacher told me about this site after another talk about "Using blogs in the classroom", and it's great.
As they say, " Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like English through the music and lyrics of the songs."
First listen to the song, then fill in the blanks according to the level you have chosen, beginner, intermediate or expert. You can't advance if you don't complete the lyrics properly, but  you can listen to the song as many times as needed  just by clicking  intro.
More than 470 songs from Cat Stevens  to Lady Gaga, or from Metallica to Alicia Keys, all kind of music to choose.
Click here to go to Lyrics Training

5 comments:

Miss CarmenZ said...

Joan, I was at the talk yesterday and I found it quite interesting some of the advices you gave us. I have found many interesting resources in your blog and I am sure it will give me a lot of tips to improve my blog.
If you want to have a look at it is
elblogdemisscarmenz.blogspot.com
Unfortunately , i haven´t had much time to work on it but I hope to do it in the future.
Thanks for all your help.

Priscila said...

Hi,

Our “The Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 competition” is doing great, with some really cool blogs eager to get number 1 spot! We’re very glad you have accepted this challenge and joined us.

This post is just to remind you there is still time to get your blog up in the list. The voting goes until May 24th at midnight CET (GMT +1), so get down to business and keep voting!

Wishing you all good luck,

Priscila
On behalf of bab.la and Lexiophiles team

Christopher said...

Yeah, listening to songs and understanding them is a great way to learn a language ... I'd suggest translating them too. With a good dictionary translating a song isn't as hard as some people might thing ... a pre-intermediate can even do it if he really understands and likes and connects with the song writer. ... I've found that many great songs really are written in plain language, without too many idiomatic complexities.

Anyway, I'm touring English blogs and trying to promote mine a little. My blog "expletive English" I hope should be entertaining to learners and teachers of English - I hope you check it out! Cheers!

Priscila said...

Hi,

I’m writing to inform you that although your blog got to the voting phase it wasn’t classified as one of The Top 100 Language Blogs 2010. We’d like to thank you for participating and sharing this experience with us!

With 495 nominated blogs and more than twenty thousand user votes the competition broke last year's record, making it probably the largest competition in its field. You’re welcome to visit bab.la and see the complete list if The Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 here:

http://bab.la/news/top-100-language-blogs-2010

Kind regards,

Priscila

On behalf of the bab.la and Lexiophiles team

Amelia said...

Hi, there!

Songs are absolutely helpful in the class, especially because lyrics are very simple, sometimes.

Since teenagers like music so much, for example, Lady Gaga can be a good "teacher" as regards simple phrases and then, when students have fun with their friends at a pub, they "do the homework" by listening to music, it's great.

I would also like to get your feedback on our blog:

http://blog-de-traduccion.trustedtranslations.com/

Best regards,

Amelia