33. FOREIGN LANGUAGE SONG PUZZLE (Collaboration)
Description: Originally used in ESL class, Song Puzzle is a listening skill builder.
Application: Use in foreign language classes.
Process: Before the class meets, locate an audio file of a simple but unfamiliar song in the target language. Locate the lyrics for the song, enlarge the words, cut into appropriate length strips, and jumble. Place a set of strips into an envelope, making one envelope per group. On class day, divide students into pairs and have them listen to the audio version of the lyrics. Hand out one envelope per pair and give them a few minutes to put the strips in order of the song. Repeat the process as necessary and be prepared to reveal the song’s lyrics in total. Ask partnerships to translate into English as much as possible and acknowledge the partnership that is closest to the actual meaning.
Description: Originally used in ESL class, Song Puzzle is a listening skill builder.
Application: Use in foreign language classes.
Process: Before the class meets, locate an audio file of a simple but unfamiliar song in the target language. Locate the lyrics for the song, enlarge the words, cut into appropriate length strips, and jumble. Place a set of strips into an envelope, making one envelope per group. On class day, divide students into pairs and have them listen to the audio version of the lyrics. Hand out one envelope per pair and give them a few minutes to put the strips in order of the song. Repeat the process as necessary and be prepared to reveal the song’s lyrics in total. Ask partnerships to translate into English as much as possible and acknowledge the partnership that is closest to the actual meaning.
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33. Foreign Language Song Puzzle
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33. Foreign Language Song Puzzle
http://iteslj.org/c/games4.html
Submitted by Pablo Ortega Juárez portegaj63@hotmail.com