How to learn English through songs!

www.lyricstraining.com

Your task

If you like music, serch your favorite song and take a dictation.

For example, if you are interested in British pop music, have a look at Beatles's songs.

You can select 'begginer' 'intermediate' 'export' according to your English level.

Songs are good tool for improving your listening skill. Once you can understand the mechanism of changing the sounds such as liaison and assimilation, you can gradually hear and understand what English native speakers are saying.

Tell me which song you chose and which part of the song you had difficulty in listening.

Learning from masterpiece

http://www.loudlit.org/

What is this?
This gives you opportunities to listen to well-famous masterpiece such as children's story, poetry and noevel.
At the same time, you can read the original.

Why is the content good for language learning?

・The content is recorded in clear voice with nice speed so it is easy for learners to catch up with the
　recording.
・This contains a varaety of genre of story so it meets various needs of learners.
・Each chapter has transcription to understand visually.

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

・The teacher can use the transcription from the site and copy it into word file and utilize it for activities.
・The teacher make some blanks on the paper and use it for Closed test both in groups and individuals.
・The teacher make advanced students to write a dictation while lilstening.

・After listening a few time, as a  group leatners can gather information which they can understand and list
  what they got on the blackboard. Complete with each other for maybe getting one point.

Limitations
・Need internet (some schools don't have access to YouTube)
・Dictation activitiy requires quite high level

Listen and Write

http://www.listen-and-write.com/
What is this?This site called 'Listen and Write' is useful tool for English learners to improve not only their listening skill but also writing skills through dictation.

Why is the content good for language learning?・Dictation is good practice to understand the phonological features like Liaison, Assimilation and Flapped t.
　Once leaners notice the language phenomenon logically, it is getting easier to follow native English speaking.

How might you use it in a language teaching context?・One of the good features of this site is allowed learners to chose their  level and diffculties.
　If you are beginner, you can select 'Blank mode' to fill blanks.
　If you want to challenge more difficult task, you can chose 'Full mode'.

Limitations・I think this activity is suitable for individual leaner not for group unless there are enough computers in the   class.