Teaching Songs and Chants
Kitty Zhang （张林），培生朗文中国区培训师
老师们都知道歌曲、韵文在英语课堂教学中的重要性，但歌曲、韵文在课堂教学中的应用，也并不总是能达到老师预期的效果，这与歌曲、韵文教学的一些技巧和应注意的事项有很大的关系。下面整理出我在有关歌曲、韵文教学培训中的教学技巧和注意事项，供老师参考。
Indispensable Teaching Tools: Songs & Chants
Language models to imitate
Opportunity to improve pronunciation
Fun and relaxed class atmosphere
Motivation for students
Tips for using songs and chants:
1. Choose a song that requires involvement in the form of movement, gestures or ones where groups say different things e.g. rounds or chants with alternating lines.
2. Learn it by heart yourself so you don't have to keep checking the words.
Why?
- so you'll look and feel confident
- so students will feel confident
- so you can look at your class and see how they're doing
- so you can direct different groups, voices or motions
3. Use visual aids and prompts to help the students understand and remember. Give the words for support if needed. You can elicit them or give clues if the song is simple but if you want students to be singing it confidently they shouldn't be struggling with remembering the words. When they've got it you could take away some or all of the words as a challenge.
4. Sing or chant energetically and enthusiastically. Your students will mirror this.
5. Get the right pitch for your song- not too high and not too low. Get the right speed for your chant- not too fast and not too slow.
6. Don't expect them to join in immediately or master a complete song in one session. If not all students are singing, show them how to mouth the words.
7. Follow up the song in the next lesson, but do something different or a more complicated activity – strike the balance between enough repetition for them to learn it and over-doing it.
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