101 EFL Activities for Teaching University Students is filled with a variety of language learning activities that can be used throughout the semester. While designed with university teachers in mind, teachers of other subjects (and levels) will also find these activities useful in their classrooms.
The activities in this book relate to three major themes: the context of the university environment (students learn by talking about their lives as university students), group dynamics – the stages of a group (the stages all students go through during a semester), and active learning (learning through actively using the course material, instead of listening to a professor deliver a lecture). The book is structured around the three main time periods of the semester: the beginning, the mid-period and the end.
This book also contains teacher development tips, short exercises designed to help teachers reflect on their own teaching and professional development in a university setting. In addition, the book has a list of recommended readings and web resources for university teachers.
Write a new song for…
Many song activities ask students to listen to a song and fill in the blanks on a worksheet. In this activity, students write a song for a well-known singer, using vocabulary from the coursebook, and words from the singer's most popular songs.
Time: 20–30 minutes
Skills: Reading, writing, vocabulary
Preparation: Choose a pop singer who sings songs in English and is currently very popular with students in the country where you teach. Find lyrics to three of the most popular songs by this singer and create a word cloud using all the lyrics (go to wordclouds.com). Save the word cloud to display in class, and find an image of the singer. Also, select 10 to 12 words and phrases that you want students to remember from previous lessons.
Procedure: Show the students a picture of the pop singer. Ask the students a few questions about the singer. Next, display the word cloud, and explain that the word cloud contains lyrics from three of the singer's biggest hits. The bigger the word is, the more often it appears in the singer's lyrics.
Work together with the class to produce a list of words and phrases from the last few weeks' lessons. Encourage students to raise their hands and contribute words. You can also write words and phrases from your list.
Students work in groups of four. They write lyrics for a new song, using vocabulary from the word cloud and the word list on the board. Explain that they do not need to write a melody. Give groups enough time to write a good chorus, some verses, and a bridge.
After that, groups hand you their lyrics, and you will redistribute them to the other groups, so that each group has another group's lyrics. Now, groups must come up with a melody that goes well with the lyrics. Give them several minutes to prepare. Finally, groups perform the new hit song for the class.
Options: If you are worried that your students will refuse to sing for the class, you can skip the last part of the activity, and ask the students to read their lyrics in front of the class, instead of singing.
作者介紹
Hall Houston teaches at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences in Taipei, Taiwan. He has a Master’s degree in Foreign Language Education from The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books about language teaching, including The Creative Classroom, Provoking Thought, and Creative Output (co-authored with Gerhard Erasmus).
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