Liven the tempo in your ESL classroom! This book has fabulous, easy- to-follow activities for second 101 activities to get you started today. New Ways in and foreign language learners at various levels. Activities feature N classic and contemporary songs earn how music can be incorporated into your lessons as a e across genres, and many are way to decrease anxiety, increase motivation and retention, w designed for or adaptable to and invigorate both students and teachers. This book is a L W another song choice; this affords collection of adaptable lessons that use music as a catalyst for Teaching With Music Jean L. Arnold and Emily Herrick, Editors teachers more creativity and effective, engaging, and enjoyable language learning. Included in a provides students with added this fun and informative book are 101 activities for students of all ys motivation and relevance. skill levels and a companion website with online resources. The in All activities are presented with lessons are broken down by topic including: language proficiency level, • Reading • Grammar T lesson aims, class time, prepa- eaching With Music ration time, and any resources • Writing • Vocabulary needed, making this book an • Listening • Cultural Exploration important resource for novice • Speaking • Integrated Skills and veteran teachers. Jill Fox, Ph.D., Director, Intensive English Language Institute, Creighton University About the Editors Jean L. Arnold earned an MA in Linguistics. She has taught ESOL and ESOL methodology in Spain, the US, China, Vietnam, Canada and New Zealand. This unique book contains an Jean teaches at Victoria University of Wellington. amazing and inspiring collec- tion of activities that show how music can be used to create a positive classroom environment Emily Herrick has taught ESL for nearly 25 years and for language learning as well has been listening to music for even longer. She holds as to support many different MAs in TESL and History, and has taught in Arizona, Jean L. Arnold and Emily Herrick dimensions of learning. It will Costa Rica, and the Philippines. She currently teaches be a rare and invaluable at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. resource for teachers who wish to harness the potential of music to support creative and learner- centered teaching. Professor Jack C. Richards, University of Sydney; Victoria University of Wellington “Where words fail, music speaks.” -Hans Christen Andersen NewWays_Music cover.indd 1 7/27/17 3:30 PM ©2017 by TESOL International Association. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. New Ways in Teaching With Music Jean Arnold and Emily Herrick, Editors This book has a companion website. Go to www.tesol.org/teachingwithmusic for additional resources. ©2017 by TESOL International Association. All rights reserved. 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Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for permission to reprint borrowed material. We regret any oversights that may have occurred and will rectify them in future printings of this work. ISBN 978-1-945351-25-9 Page 154 [“You Needed Me”: The Simple Past Tense in Action] You Needed Me Words and Music by Randy Goodrum Copyright © 1975 (Renewed) Chappell & Co., Inc. All Rights Administrated by Chappell & Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission of ALFRED MUSIC Page 235 [Tying It Together: Music, Reading, and Writing] Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Old Oak Tree Words and Music by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown Copyright © 1972 (Renewed) Irwin Levine Music and Peermusic, Ltd. All Rights for Irwin Levine Music Controlled and Administered by Spirit One Music (BMI) All Rights Reserved Used by Permission of Alfred Music Page 247 [Songs and Memories for Expanding Vocabulary and Grammar] The House That Built Me Words and Music by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin Copyright © 2009 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Tomdouglasmusic and Built On Rock Music All Rights on behalf of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC and Tomdouglasmusic Administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219 All Rights on behalf of Built On Rock Music Administered by ClearBox Rights International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard LLC ©2017 by TESOL International Association. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. ©2017 by TESOL International Association. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. Contents Note: The lessons in each section are arranged according to level, low to high. Introduction ������������������������������� ix Part I: Music for Reading Introduction ����������������������������������3 Line Quest: Underline the Answer, Katherine Riebe ��������������5 Tell Me More: Wh– Question Formation, Katherine Riebe ����������8 Storytelling Songs, Fergal Kavanagh ��������������������� 10 Speed Reading About Music, Jean L. Arnold ���������������� 12 In Other Words, Tamara Guy ������������������������� 18 Paraphrase Match Me Up, Tamara Guy ������������������� 20 Identifying POVs, Tamara Jones ������������������������ 22 An Interview With a Songwriter, Elena Shvidko ��������������� 24 Part II: Music for Writing Introduction ��������������������������������� 29 Collaborative Storytelling, Tamara Jones ������������������� 31 Opera for English, Haley P. Vickers and Jace Vickers �������������� 33 Emotional Involvement: Using Music as the Writing Muse, Patrick T. Randolph ����������������������������� 35 Music and Word-Go-Round, Lilika Couri ������������������ 37 Life’s a Happy Song: Figurative Language, Ann Bouma ���������� 38 Getting to Know You, Lilika Couri ���������������������� 40 The Back Story, Emily Herrick ������������������������� 42 Musical Paraphrasing, Tamara Jones ��������������������� 43 A Special Place, Sally La Luzerne-Oi ��������������������� 45 Telling Images, Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan ������������������ 47 Want to Be a Songwriter?, Nadezda Pimenova ���������������� 49 Don’t Mess With Genres!, Elena Shvidko ������������������ 52 Writing a Report: Music in Koolistan, Alan S. Weber and Vincent Corver ��� 55 Every Song Tells the Story: Using Musicals to Practice Summarizing, Emily Becketti and Jessica Sarles ���������� 57 Elements of a Narrative, Ann Bouma �������������������� 60 Contents | iii ©2017 by TESOL International Association. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. Part III: Music for Listening Introduction ��������������������������������� 65 Chorus Reconstruction, Jacob Huckle ��������������������� 67 Dueling Kazoos, Paul Keyworth ������������������������ 69 Listen for Your Line, Rebecca Palmer....................... 72 Aural to Visual: Turning Songs Into Tableau Vivant, Joseph V. Dias ���� 74 Find and Fix the Mistakes!, Timothy R. Janda ���������������� 76 Rhyming Words in Lyrics: Exploring Student Creativity in TESOL, Vander Viana and Sonia Zyngier ����������������������� 78 Close Listening: What’d He Say?, Jean L. Arnold �������������� 80 Irony, Arlyn Mañebo-Baron ��������������������������� 82 Sound Scavenger Hunt, Walcir Cardoso, Ross Sundberg, and Tiago Bione ���� 84 Lyrical Visualization and Interpretation, Nathan Galster ���������� 87 Lyrics: Dictation and Note-Taking, Jon Noble ���������������� 89 Taylor Swift Lyrics Gap Fill, Christopher Pond and Sean H. Toland ������� 91 A Musical Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, Stacie A. Swinehart �������� 94 Affix Awareness, Rita M. Van Dyke-Kao ������������������� 96 Islamic Songs and the Mastery of Listening Skills, Mohamed A. Yacoub ���������������������������� 98 Listening for and Noting Large Numbers: “The Galaxy Song,” Jean L. Arnold ������������������������������ 100 This Is an Important Announcement!, Jim Cracraft ����������� 102 Polite Apologies in American English, Lisa Leopold ����������� 105 Lady Mondegreen Rides Again!: How to Use Mondegreens (Misheard Song Lyrics) to Further Listening Skills and Understand Phonetic Features, Chris Walklett ��������� 107 Part IV: Music for Speaking Introduction �������������������������������� 111 Singing to Develop Rhythm and Linking, Marsha J. Chan �������� 112 Desert Island Songs, Peter McDonald �������������������� 114 Learning to the Beat: Improving Speaking Fluency and Pronunciation With a Metronome, Ildiko Porter-Szucs �������� 116 Do You Hear What I Hear? Discussing the Pieces in a Musical Ensemble, Christopher Stillwell ���������������� 119 IV | NEW WAYS IN TEACHING WITH MUSIC ©2017 by TESOL International Association. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. ©2017 by TESOL International Association. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. Let’s Make Rhymes, Mike de Jong ���������������������� 121 Rap 101: Keeping It Real, Tom Lackaff �������������������