Teaching ESL with Music I

Songs for Teaching: Using Children's Music to Promote Learning

AgendaWeb contains animation and videos with lyrics of hundreds of songs for ESL students of all ages including a selection of “best songs ever” and videos and lyrics of the top 25 singles for 2009, 2010 and 2011. You can access the songs on http://www.agendaweb.org/ by scrolling down the page to the heading “Songs”.

Learn English With Songs – 40 gap fill exercises using YouTube music videos.   Ten of the songs are Christmas songs.

EFL Classroom 2.0 — This site offers over 1000 videos for learners of English. It includes a section with music videos with lyric sheets and clozes.

Mondos: Song Lessons – A site for learning English through songs and song lyrics.

ESL Through Music - Excellent Web site created and maintained by Dr. Suzanne Medina, Professor of Graduate Education, California State University. Here teachers are provided with the tools which they need in order to foster the acquisition of English through music.

Teaching English with Songs and Music - Some teaching activities to use with songs.

Teaching with songs - The lyrics of over 30 songs and exercises on each of these.

Primary tips - Using Songs - British Council - Language Assistant

Articles from the The Internet TESL Journal and other online journals: Music and Song in Discussion  - Musical Activities for Young Learners of EFL  - Song Dictation - Student Created Song Exercises - Reviewing Time with the Song 'Rock Around the Clock' - Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar - Teaching Phrasal Verbs Using Songs.