Website:http://www.musicalenglishlessons.org/index-ex.htm
Level & Skill: Lessons range from mid-beginner to advanced. Skills range from basic grammar to inferencing and fill in the blanks. Also, since these grammar exercises do employ music it is a listening skill too.
Interactive: No
ESL/Non-ESL: ESL
What makes it good: This site has literally around a hundred or more lesson plans all surrounding the use of popular music, with three or more lessons of varying degress of difficulty attached to each song. If a teacher likes to teach with music or you have a class that likes learning through music, this is a great site. Its good to activate more than one skill when teaching, so music is a great source. Luckily the songs range in variety, and you will not be stuck with a bunch of lame songs that will kill your soul a little bit more everytime you listen to it. Another nice feature of the songs is that they are authentic, there are not "safe" songs, I am not saying you will find any death metal, but these are songs that explore topics of sex and drugs; but in typical rock fashion they are covered in clever metaphors and the such. So, if you were teaching an advanced level you could use the lyrics to explore deeper issues, or just get the learners to fill in the proper verb tense. If a teacher wanted to use different songs they would be able to create their own activities quite easily because they could just follow the same formula this site does. As a person who uses music in every aspect of their life, I would like to think this site would allow me to bring music into the classroom effectively.
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