While I was sitting on the metro listening to my ipod I realised that visualising music could be a fun way to exploit vocabulary in class and to use song in other ways...so here's what I did.
I chose a song with plenty of flowery vocabulary and LOTS of phrasal verbs and fixed phrases. I then picked out a set of 15 different words or phrases from the lyrics. The students had to, individually draw a picture representing what they thought the word/phrase meant.
Following this, the students showed each other their pictures and their partner had to try to identify the word/phrase (and a lot of the time they chose correctly!!) Then we looked at the words, their ideas and had a feedback session, focussing in on the more difficult words. We then did the usual drilling and putting the vocabulary in context.
After, I showed the students 10 song titles and they had to guess which one was the song where the vocabulary came from. They then were allowed to listen to 15 seconds of their chosen song before confirming. This gave them time to think about the vocabulary and listen to the tune and see if they matched.
I gave the students the lyrics cut up and they had a race to put it in order while listening to the song. Finally, the students had to decide what the music video was like, write a short description adn compare it to the real thing.
Fun class
