Today I had Classes 301 and 311 listen to a lovely song “Proud of You” at the beginning of the class. While listening, they were asked to write in English anything that came into their mind. When the song was over, they handed in their paper. (more…)
This morning when reviewing the subjunctive mood in Class 311, I used the song “Tears in Heaven” to demonstrate the different patterns for reality and irreality. It’s fun!
First, I had the students listen to the song with lyrics, then I showed the lyrics on the ppt as follows, dividing the lyrics into two parts–imagination/irreality and reality. (more…)
Today in class, we reviewed the relative clauses. I used PowerPoint to go over some important points, interwoven with some oral practices, using the relative clause to talk about their personal prefrence or opinion. After the review, the students were given a small quiz, followed by the song “Because You Loved Me,” which contains a lot of relative clauses.
The following is the song. You might like to sing along and count how many relative clauses there are. Enjoy it! (more…)
Happy Father’s Day! (more…)
Today I taught two classes the song “You Raise Me Up.” In Class 311, since they have sufficient time, on the handout, I left the refrain part of the song blank. The students had to listen and write down the refrain, which repeated three times. After checking if they got the right words, we sang the song together. In Class 301, because there were only 3 minutes left after we discussed the quiz, their compositions and an article, I just let them sing along with the video. (more…)
Today, to relieve the students of some pressure, after the discussion of today’s quiz, I taught the three classes the song “To Love You More” sung by Celine Dion. It’s a beautiful, touching song and I love the passion flowing from both the melody and the lyrics.
After presenting the song, I challenged Classes 301 and 303 to locate the imperative sentences in the song, a grammar point we reviewed this week, and Class 311 to discover the relative clauses. Then we sang the song together. (more…)
Today Chris introduced me a song “My Greatest Fear.” A song new to me. Though not easy to sing, the lyrics are simple and quite beautiful. Well, I like it.
Just read the first verse. Can you guess what the man’s greatest fear is?
Sometimes many miles
may lay between us
But only for the job
I choose to do (more…)
Yesterday I taught Class 309 the song “Heal the World,” which was written by Michael Jackson. The lyrics hold so much meaning that I didn’t need to say much. It is a song to promote world peace and brotherhood. A very beautiful song, a little calmer than “We Are the World.” Both are among my favorite songs.
Here I posted a different video from what I showed to the students yesterday because there is only one mistake in the lyrics in this one. The phrase in the middle of the song “crucify it’s soul” should be “crucify its soul.”
I also taught my special student the song. Asked which he liked better, “Heal the World” or “We are the World,” a song we sang last semester, he said both.
You may like to print out the handout. (more…)
A song dedicated to all the teachers.