I AM ALL EARS

 DESCRIPTION:

Students listen to some famous songs. You have carry out some activities in order to become familiar with their lyrics and tunes.

Then you will choose your favourite song and dedicate it to a friend, a relative or a loved one explaining the reasons for your choice.

General aim:

-To understand that Music is a way of expressing different cultures and part of Art and such also an expression of human creativity and genius.

Procedure:

Step1: Students listen to the songs one by one .

Step 2: Carry out the activities proposed, in order to become aware of how lyrics and tunes go together in a song: the importance and repetition of some words, its rhythm and structure, the different meanings and purposes a song may have, the instruments in the song etc. so that later you can create your own verses.

Step 3: Finally you have to choose a song and dedicate it to a loved person. You can do it in a audio format, or video format recording yourself dedicating the song and the song itself, using mp3 devices. or mp4 .

Songs: 6 SONGS

1-We are the champions (QUEEN):  

a- Listen to the song : circle the correct form and match the expressions to their meanings.

b: Structure: Parts of the song.Instruments you can hear.

c: Sing the song . 

d:You have already listened to the song several times. Now that it has become familiar,  create your own verses. They will be additional lines to fit into the song's rhythm  and structure.

e-Which is the message of the song? How the lyrics and the music help to express the message?

2-YOU'LL BE IN MY HEART(THEME FROM TARZAN BY PHILL COLLINS)

3-IMAGINE-LENNON

a- Listen to the song and make the activities in the sheet.

-b: Structure: Parts of the song.Instruments you can hear.

c: Sing the song . 

d:You have already listened to the song several times. Now that it has become familiar,  create your own verses. They will be additional lines to fit into the song's rhythm  and structure.

e- What kind of world did John Lennon imagine? Read the lyrics and write about his views on religion, war, property and poverty. Make examples. What is the effect of repeated words throughout the song such as no, nothing and not?

4-MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE BY POLICE

      

a- Listen to the song and make the activities in the sheet.

-b: Structure: Parts of the song. Instruments you can hear.

c: Sing the song . 

d. Where are the 3 musicians in the video ?

e. How does the singer feel?

f. Does he keep hoping?Why?

g. Do you think that the island is a metaphore for his sentimental loneliness? Why?

5-TEARS IN HEAVEN BY

 ERIC CLAPTON

 

Tears in HEAVEN, is a ballad by Eric Clapton about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year- old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend on March 20, 1991.

a- Listen to the song and make the activities in the sheet.

-b: Structure: Parts of the song. Instruments you can hear.

c: Sing the song . 

d.Why did Eric Clapton compose this song?

e.Whom is it dedicated?

f.What do you feel ?

You can use this adjetives: angry, emotional, depressed, grateful, unhappy, relaxed, thoughtful, inspired, broken-hearted.

6-ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK

a-Listen to the song and fill in the blanks spaces.

b-Structure: Parts of the song. Instruments you can hear.

c-What does the title of the song suggest?

d-Which of these 2 saying do you agree more with and why?

1-"BE YOURSELF NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY"

2-"WHEN IN ROME, DO AS ROMANS DO"

e-According to the song, if you were " a basque person in New York, what would be your greatest challenge?