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Lyric Sequencing

2/19/2014

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This activity can be used as behaviour for learning (BfL) activity to relax students at the start of the lesson and get them into learning mode, a literacy exercise where students have to highlight nouns, pronouns, verbs, transitive verbs, adjectives etc. The activity also enhances listening skills and is particularly effective for EAL students. Finally is can be used as the introduction and foundations of a lesson, where the basic lesson content is delivered through a song. 

Cut out each line of the lyrics, the students then have to place them in the correct sequence on hearing the song. This requires complete focus and silence and is most effective as a paired activity. The activity can be applied to any song, but I recommend that is has a low tempo as it has a calming affect on the students and they will need to find each line of the song before the next one is sung.  

They Might Be Giants the, '90's band of Birdhouse in Your Soul fame have produced many songs which are education related, their album and DVD Here Comes Science is an excellent resources and contains 19 tracks on various science topics which make really useful starters. 

I've included some of the tracks I've used many times which has had positive outcomes below. Songs that the students are not fully familiar with work best as they are then forced to listen intently to the track as opposed to just using their memory to complete the sequence. 

Meet the Elements - They Might Be Giants
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Close To Me - Kaki King
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Dream Catch Me - Newton Faulkner
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Chasing Cars - Snow patrol
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Titanium - Madilyn Bailey. Low tempo
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ROY G. BIV - They Might Be Giants
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    Paul McCormack BSc(Hons), MRSC, FCollT, PGCE

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    Paul is Head of Science in a secondary school in the South West of England, and a Fellow of the College of Teachers, with an interest in developing new and innovative learning and teaching strategies to enable students to achieve their potential.

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