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Music in the classroom

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Teachers' vote

What do you think of using music or songs in the classroom?

  1. I don't want to waste class time with songs.
    (8.5%)
  2. I exploit songs to teach English.
    (64.1%)
  3. I'm not sure how to use songs in the class.
    (17.6%)
  4. My manager won't let me use music in the class.
    (4%)
  5. I don't have the technology to use songs.
    (5.9%)

Total votes: 3064

Figures do not represent public opinion as a whole

Discuss

Tell us your thoughts on using music in the classroom. For example, do you think music and songs have a place in the English language classroom or do you think music is too disruptive for your students? Do you use music or songs with your classes? Why/why not? Do you have a favourite music activity?

This topic has now closed. Thanks for all your comments.

Tiziana, Italy
I think songs are a very useful way to learn English: they make students improve pronunciation and vocabulary (students learn to use words in context). Students are also motivated by songs.

Veridiana, Poland
I think it's a waste of time using the songs to teach teenagers because today's songs don't have a strong message that young peole can focus on.

Meritxell, Spain
I normally play some songs during the term. It's a good option to get students engaged and to have fun while learning. Young learners have the ability to reproduce the song even if they don't understand the meaning. That's amazing! What I consider to be relevant are the activities involved: fill-in-the gaps, order the verses, provide alternative lyrics, etc.

Teguh, Indonesia
At the beginning of the semester, I usually tell my students that I am going to play some songs at certain times during the semester. They love to hear that news and wait for the moment to come. Music is a kind of motivation for my students.

Louis, China
I think using music in class is a very creative and intertesting thing to do but it also brings challenges. It can take up a lot of time so teachers need to control it effiency to make sure that it doesn't waste too much class time.

Ricardo, Mexico City
I think music and songs have a place in the English language classroom. I use music or songs with my classes.

Nachtergael, French-speaking Belgium
My students are adults. They and I enjoy listening to songs with a purpose. On St Patrick's day this year, my elementary-level students were shown a photo of the statue of Mary Mallone in Dublin. I gave them some background information about the legend and explained some vocabulary before listening to a CD with the Irish song. Then, we were all ready and happy to sing along. It creates a positive atmosphere of enjoying new words in English and everybody gladly participated.

Rosy, Italy
I use music in teaching English, trying to use songs with structures and words that my students can easily understand. I prepare cloze tests with songs and I let my students sing (a kind of karaoke) and the majoriry of them like tihis activity....the problem is the lack of time!

Raffaella, Italy
Music and songs have a great role in the English class - from basic activities like cloze or text completion, to more complex ones like introducing a historical period or event. I used The Foggy Dew many times to introduce the Irish Question and Joyce or the song Memory before doing Eliot. I generally do various songs from the Elizabethan times before doing Shakespeare, including soundtracks from famous films - for example, Roemeo & Juliet by Zeffirelli. Sometimes I use musicals or films with a strong musical backgroud (Quadrophenia or Hair) to deal with teenage issues. My students love them! They also learn a lot of vocabulary and the right pronunciation without effort.

Raquel, Brazil
I use songs to teach English in my classes. My students enjoy them and the grammar contents can be explained in a more practical way. Songs can improve their listening and speaking skills.

Rosana Esp膫颅rito Santo, Brazil
I approve of using songs and music in the classroom. Depending on the topic we are about to have - introducing or concluding/consolidating a grammar topic, working some specific vocabulary, skimming, scanning, infering meaning - all these and much more can be done in a contextualized way. I have been a teacher for a long time and music has always had the power to relax or thrill my students.

Likai
In my day, no teachers ever used songs as a way to teach English, but my sister showed me the way to listen to many English songs, i.e. through listening to the radio and the tapes she bought to the family. I was able to listen to many English songs by Bee Gees, Cliff Richard, Abba, Simmon and Garfunkel, Bay City Rollers, Peter Paul and Mary etc. Their songs are just fantastic and I was able to learn many words & phrases which help me become more confident and fluent in using English. I still find it useful in using songs in my lessons. The materials found in the Youtube are very useful. I mainly use them for motivation, listening activities, pronunciation activities and thematic related activities.As long as they are catchy and relevant to the students' needs, they are useful and motivating.

Lily, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
English is a musical language. Students may learn a great deal from clips. However, songs should have a close relation to the lesson (grammar point) so that it makes the class rounder and a lot more entertaining.

Jenny, China
I think songs are helpful for people to learn English and correct their pronunciation. I do not use it in class as I don't sing well. But I'll play some during break time and sometimes let the students do some blank-filling tasks.

Christoph, Austria
I can only give arguments for it! Be it pop, soul or jazz, the best known songs of the world are sung in English. Also singing is a thing of human sense and human spirit. People nowadays are even treated with music therapy! Who can say anything against it?

Mike, France
It can be a nice way to inject a bit of energy into lessons, but it is important to remember how difficult it is to understand song lyrics in another language; the classic EFL gapfill with a hip-hop song can leave some students lost and confused!

Pui, Thailand
i think students have a lot of fun with learning English through the music. Normally songs are full of words that are difficult to understand for example, slang or idioms.

Silvana, Brazil
I love working on songs! Teaching pronunciation and expressions through songs is fantastic. I think there is a connection between the process of learning languages and learning music!

Laura, Brazil
Here in Brazil we overflow with music and rhythm. It is just part of our everyday lives. I think it is worth bringing it to the classroom to work on skills such as listening and speaking, cultural issues, phonetics and collocations. If I don't bring songs to my class, my students will anyway.

Va Danh, Vietnam
I don't think music is worth using in class.

Thoan, Vietnam
Personnally, I think it's very useful to use music when learning English, for example at home, but not in classroom. In classroom, songs waste a lot of class time.

Djahida T, Algeria
I personnaly advise my students to learn English through music, but I don't use it in class because I'm limited with a program to deal with. I encourage my students to learn the language through the music they prefer not through what I might impose on them in class.

Marisa C. Greece
As songs were so important to me becoming a good listener and, hence, a more fluent user with a good pronunciation, I have always used them in teaching. Any point is good - warmers, main lesson focus, follow ups. I have also encouraged my learners to listen to music and try to understand/write the words in their free time. This is so much more enjoyable than mindless repetition drills!

Sachin, India
I think music use in the classroom is a very interesting thing. After studying, some students get bored in the class and they need some entertainment. Music is very good thing. It freshens thier minds and music also can help to improve their fluency and also improve their vocab.

Dora, Hong Kong
I used to play the piano when I was small, but I stopped when I went to university. I think describing a piece of music in English is very challenging. Lacking a certain amount of adjectives, music knowledge and the background of the piece would make the job a disaster.

Agentina
I think using music and songs in the classroom are very useful because teachers deal with mixed ability classes every day and the use of music helps a lot with auditory students.

Angels,Spain
Music is great to learn English, and students love it! You can practise pronunciation, listening skills, vocabulary, and many things. I try to vary activities, sometimes I focus on pronunciation, other times on colloquialisms or vocabulary or simply use it to teach model sentences.

Lucimar, Brazil
It's really important to use music in classes, because it motivates students to ipromove their listening, reading and aquisition of vacabulary. We need to choose a good song for each age. Songs are a good tool to learn and teach English!

Chilong, China
Songs are entertaining (like on MTV),which definitely makes class teaching more enjoyable, but it only serves to assist learning English.

Lee, Saudi Arabia
Listening to music is similar to speaking. Therefore it is a good medium for learning English too.

Niki, Italy
I've exploited songs to teach English since I began to teach. I'm sure that using songs is a motivating and useful activity to teach grammar structures and new words. Students like music a lot and hear it everywhere. I usually choose songs with meaningful lyrics so that they can think about social subject matters too.

Gustavo, Argentina
I think that music is the best way to teach any language. Students are interested in music and lyrics. Music makes them feel alive when they are clapping, snapping their fingers or moving their bodies. I look for music that matches the stages my students are at. Students are always asking me to use rap or pop music. Music is a very useful teaching resource.

Wendy China
Using music and songs in the classroom is a good way of teaching. It not only gets the students' attention in the class but also stimuates their brain function to grasp information quickly. It also releases stress in the class so that is beneficial for students to absort the information from the lessons.

Iriana, Peru
I couldn't agree more with Erik. Needless to say how much it helps depends on choosing the right kind of music and using it as background in order to make a certain class activity more motivating. We should not forget, however, it is key to plan what we want to get out of a song/music-based task.

Ayacucho, Peru
It's really important to use music nowadays because many students feel so good when they listen some songs that they like, students make sure on their Listening skill and tell them about the importance of repeating within the same speed. they understand the spoken english so well.

Josh, Italy
Music with lyrics helps a lot I think. It can be a welcome change of pace. Choosing the right song and lyrics is the trick. The words need to be easlily heard, and printed out for the students, as well. Ideally, if a student likes the music, then he'll listen to it at home. I teach mostly adults, however, I know I'd incorporate music with children, too. The right music for the audience is the key.

Erik, Sweden
Language is rythm and intonation. Therefore music can, especially for those musically gifted, be a quantum leap in acquiring a second language.

Harland, Philippines
I think it would help in instilling the discussions, topics or words in our brains, especially if the music is catchy.

Tina, China
I think using music in the classroom now and then can make your teaching more lively and vivid.

Nicole Le, Viet Nam
In my opinion, music's very helpful not only in entertainment but studying as well. We can remember new words,structures, ..... easily. For instance, I learned "blame something on somebody" thanks to "Blame it on me" of Akon, "There's no need to do something" thanks to "It's alright, it's OK" of Ashley Tisdale and so on. The most importance is that it makes us feel interested and comfortable to study. However, listening a lot of music can waste our class time. It'll be better if we study this way at home and share some songs with friends.

Pasquale, Italy
I often use music in the classroom. It's a very motivating activity because it allows students to express their feelings and emotions and to talk about problems they are very intersted in. Music also helps them to improve their pronunciation and enlarge vocabulary. While listening to music, students feel very serene and all the emotional barriers are swept away

Sylvia, Argentina
I think that using songs in the classroom can help to teach some structures which may be difficult to teach with textbooks. Students pay attention to every word and expression that appear in the lyrics. So, why not exploit the use of songs in the classroom?

Rudi, Switzerland
there is nothing like a song as a starter/warm-up activity at certain times. however, it gets increasingly difficult to find music that more than one person really enjoys--this was different in the past, where everybody raved about Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones, Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin--but those days are gone! there is a great book about music in the classroom by Tim Murphey (Japan).

Anflower, Russia
I often use music in the classroom. In my opinion, this is very effective way to develope skills of pupils. I try to show them another side of language, and this side is very captivating and amuzing for them. I like to sing and as i see: Music connects people? connect their souls and inner constitutionals. This method of education is veru important and useful in the modern schools...

Fernanda, Chile
Well, I think music is a tool for good and clear pronunciation and also it helps with vocabulary.Children for example love listening to music because they can dance, sing and learn at the same time.

Marcin, Poland
hi, I am a music teacher at three primary schools. I used to start my lesson with some songs just to warm-up. I play the accordion and the guitar. Then we listen to music from CD and my students have to guess who is the composer, what is the title, where the composer comes from and what instruments do they listen to. Every lesson we repeat the same pieces of music (Vivaldi, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Santana, the Beatles, Tchaikovsky, Kilar)and every lesson I add them one pieceo of music more. Then I teach my students a new song - we try to interpret the lyric and memorise the melody and rhythm. Next step is interpretation of a new piece of music. The task is to describe the instruments, measure, the colour of the sound. They have to say something about the music in general. When my students read about history of music I used to play a relaxation music from CD as a background. They like it and if I don't play they ask me to do that. During my lesson students listen to life music of the accordion and the guitar, they sing together, the listen to life music from CDs and share their experiences. I notice that they listen to interpretations of others and try to compare with their own opinions. For me it is also very important what my students think and what they feel when they listen to music.

Claire, France
I use them as listening homework alongside other texts from 成人快手 Learning english, so I email them a link to a clear sounding version of a song and give them lyrics with a vocabularly sheet if there are some expressions or slang words/abbreviations. Its a great discussion point to discover which music sung in english they like.I have been inspired by people in France who speak very good english because they were fans of U2 when they were young! Those people don't need any lessons! Its amazing.

Nick, Australia
I dont think listening to music can move english forward with a big step ,but it sometimes can make it enjoyable to learn...

Ellen, Spain
I wish there was a compilation of songs that could be used to reinforce vocabulary and grammar points, for example some songs contain lots of imperatives, narrative tenses, vocabulary about love, etc, but nobody appears to have come up with a pack that we could have and use in class.

Gary, Japan
I find using songs works as a great introduction for both grammar and topical discussions. Using new music that the students are into also forces me to keep up with the latest music and musicians.

Tasson,Thailand
i think it very good if we use music to teach english because it can remember to long timesorry,i can't write very well

Saraa, Mongolia
Thanks it's very useful meaning

Linnea, Castello
Songs are one of my favorite strategies to teach English pronunciation. I make students focus on their Listening skill and tell them about the importance of repeating within the same speed and length through the compasses. Less importance is given to translating or even knowing the meaning og the lyrics.First, when we read the songs without singing, we talk about the "message" of the song.Every class begins with a song which always has to do with the "lesson objectives."

Stella, South Korea
I'm into music but my thought is not subjevtive.Because when I was middle school student,my English teacher used pop songs taught English. good Lyrics have lots of useful expression. And everyone felt fun.

Blanca, MexicoI
Music in the classroom is other complement in learning English, besides people like to sing English songs all the time...It is good to use this in class

Marina, Brasil
I think music helps a lot, because we make stds use their emotions. My stds always ask for music and I keep asking myself why there isn't a topic showing how to use lyrics to teach English here at 成人快手 learning English.I'm looking forward for it!!

Lia, Italy
Music involves students. They want to learn songs and grammar is easier through music. My students love musicals.

Dorota, Poland
It's good way for learning new words, phrasals and idioms but only if your students want to learn and are interested in it. I have weak students and much time is needed to go in. Also girls are more interested than boys. I remember children from kindergarden- they loved listenig and singing the songs. Anyhow I believe it's good way to achieve target.

Angela, Brazil
I think music in the classroom is important to the students development. In my Englis classes my students listen to music in their moblies or Ipod while they are doing their exercises! It is a success!!Songs are in our lives!

Jimmy, China
That's a good idea to use songs in the classroom. However, what kind of songs should be play is a big issue.

Astro, Indonesia
I think using music in learning language is one of effective ways to break shy-door problem. With singing, students are confident and familiar with particular tenses and vocabulary. Unfortunately, most students have problem with speaking in front of the class including expressing their self with song.

Lucia , Slovakia
I think music is a good way how to get closer to young learners. I use songs and I can say it has good effect.

Tienhoa, Vietnam
In my view, learning English by listening to music is one of the effective ways to enrich our vocabulary because it is easy to memorize words and phrases following a song. However, using music in the classroom will waste class time and lose to pay attention of students. In summary, we can learn English from the song but this activity should be done at home instead of in the classroom.

Mellizabel, Vietnam
I am a fan of music/songs. Will you understand that music/songs are important in learning all languages? It/They are the soul of every soul, and the mighty of all mighty. Hehe, I think my rambling sounds a little like music, doesn't it?

Svetlana, Russia
Using songs is both relaxing and culturally-stimulating. They motivate and give food for thought.

Hoa Nguyen, Vietnam
There're enormous songs which we can make use of to teach English in class. My teacher often lets us hear a piece of music to warm us up when starting the lesson. She leaves some blanks for us to fill in. Often they are some single new words/ collocations. Then she explains those words for us if necessary. through songs, we can access more beautiful words people say in daily life, in love...

Jenny, Italy
I think that using music to learn english is a very bright idea. I think that students can inprove pronounciation and learn new words with music , and they have fun too!!.

Jenny, China
I really couldn't see the advantage of using songs to learn English even though many people suggeste it as a good way to improve your listening ability. Anyone can tell me how, in which way it works?

Fleur, Netherlands.
I think using music is a great way to learn english. Everybody loves music. And with music you can make the english lessons alternately!

Sun YJ, China
I'm not a teacher yet, but if the day come, i'll definetely use music song as a teaching method. cos it is a fairly significant way for me when i learn English. The most evident advantage is about imatating pronunciation such as voiced, weaken,etc.

Vania
I think that the fact of using songs in my English classes are ver useful.For me it is a kind of educational tool to help me to teach the language. I can enjoy this moment to interact with the students. I can work the grammar structure, the melody and rithm of the language as well. It is a really pleasant moment, however, I can not do it always. As I told, it is a kind of tool to help me to practice the skill, mainly of listening and pronuciantion. My students, most of them are young and they have the same musical taste. Their favorites singers and bands, are the same that are at the top of American programmes.

Justyna, Poland
I use songs every day with my primary school learners. They love to sing and do the actions.

Ruth, Taiwan
I love songs, but I don't really have very much time for songs. But I try to some songs related to the lesson, and the students love it! YouTube is a great place to find all I need!

JinYoung, South Korea
Using songs is usefull to teach or learn English. Students can practise their pronunciation during singing. And can get the feature of of accent of english with rhythm of a song. Using songs in class is a good way to improve students' pronunciation.

Gustavo, Brazil
I have used songs in classroom since the first day I started teaching. Students are interested in doing activities with songs. They really appreciate them and are opened to learn even more in comparisson to traditional methods. Their affective filter is low enough and that is very important in assimilating new things.

Loretta, China
Most students would like their teacher to use music in class.Beacaus it can make class more intersting.

Yulya, Russia
I always use songs for teacing different age-groups of my pupils\students! It's a really nice way both for developing their listening skills and for enlarging vocabulary. But the only problem is it takes me really much time to choose a good song, propriate for a concrete class, because I try to use topic related songs with good grammar and not very difficult to comprehend. But in general-it's fine! My students are delighted!

Rebecca, Germany
Teaching mainly adults I don't have so much opportunity to use songs, but have used them with younger learners. From my experience teenagers particularly enjoy incorporating their favourite music into their learning. Students often pick up on words from lyrics they know, its a great way to give them a connection to the language. I still remember the songs I learnt as a child, this applies to any age group....

Yama, Afghanistan
I think music is too disruptive for students. I don't use music or songs whth my classes.

Melissa, Panama
I think if we use music or songs in the classroom could improve our english, not just reading but also listening the pronunciation through the music. And we can enjoy the music and everybody can participate singing songs too.

Hang, Vietnam
Using music in the classroom is a great idea!It makes students feel that they are relax, not studying. I think combining songs and lessons is good way to improve their knowledge and creation.

Roberto, Bolivia
First, congratulations to everyone at BBB learning English. Keep it up! Over the years I have found that pattern learning is more solid when done through songs - especially the ballad type. Not only that, a few minutes singing helps to change the pace, enliven the class and, if accompanied by movements, certainly wakes up students on a sleepy afternoon. I found the collection from English Sing It particularly useful because it is representative of both traditional and contemporary songs. No one would say that I am a great singer, but I discovered that if I heard and practised singing a song I would be able to do a good job. Finally, what matters most is your enthusiasm.

Cliff, Myanmar
I believe songs and music should be applied in ESL classrooms. After learning for some time, our students enjoy singing out rhymes and songs. They enjoy playing music too. Though they're simply singing and playing some musical instrument, there's still a lot of learning since the language of communication is still English.I've found that 'songs' obviously help the students with their pronunciation and fluency. They also become more familiar with English language and sound. We also discuss the cultural background expressed in the name of the singers and the lyrics.

Beatriz, Argentina
I think there should always be time for music and songs but sometimes it's difficult to find the right moment to use them and get some benefit from the listening, but we can try.

Babak, Iran
Using English songs help the learners to wrok out difficult structures easilly. I'm going to make a good syllabus for teaching using songs.

Sehissih el Hassane
Songs are an interesting way to teach language. They keep the interest of the students. The learners acquire the language through them. Teachers can use them to teach poetry, and make the students learn about other people's culture.

Gladys, Ecuador
I think it is excelent. When I was teaching kindergarden students and when I was teaching teenage students I used to use songs. The studnets loved to sing the rules in English. They used to sing "In the morning", "at noon" or "in the night", depending on the time.

Svetlana , Russia
There are loads of songs for kids. For teens we can use grammar chants, for seniors - well-known melodies and songs. Motivation, stimulus for learning, cheering up that's what matters. I can add to Cristina's example - We'll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes - Future Continuous and students can change the words according to the pattern! I love music in class! It's my cup of tea!

Marlene, Austria
What is life without music? What is language without songs? My kids were singing "We all live in a yellow submarine" and now - spring time "Here comes the sun". A day/lesson without music is a lost day ... for me.

Luciana, Italy
The problem is I do not share my students' taste and it is difficult to find songs which everybody loves. I think it's useful to memorize words, phrases if students really want to learn them.

Nadir Majoub, Sudan
I think music and songs have a place in the English lauguage classroom. Using music in the classroom is useful to show students another side of the lauguage.

Nge, Burma
I used music in the classroom. Because I think, it's the other way to learning English language. And students can easily interesting.

Cristina, Mexico
I still remember the song If I had a Hammer by Trini Lopez with which I learned the conditionals

Huang Tao, China
I love songs. I think most students love them too. Using music in the classroom can be enjoyable for students.

Chen-Wei, Taiwan
I think if we exploit songs to teach English in the classroom, it will help students to have more interest in English learning. Because the studying should't be limited to book reading or lecture conversation. A comprehensive learning environemnt is important, especially for the students whose native language is not English.

Minh Huy, Vietnam
I think it's the great to connect music to teaching foreign languages, especially English. Many learners feel studying English is very tough and boring because their teachers just focus on the traditional ways of teaching. I have studied both of English and Japanese. Thanks to using music, I increased my abilities to remember vocabulary as well as grammar. And I have adopted this effective way with my class. As a result, my students participate in my lessons actively. Therefore, studying English seems to be easier for them.

Boanerges, Brazil
I think you could exercise the students' comprehension and also help them understand the feeling of the composer. This way, the students would be able to improve communication and have command of what to say and when to say something.

Ertan, Turkey
If I was a teacher I would use music or songs for kids in the English language classroom. Because kids learn more easly with music or songs. Kids want to participate in music or songs in the learning process.

Roula, Cairo
Using songs is a very affective way to teach because most young people are eager to understand the words of songs.

Marta, Poland
I prepare listening worksheets - usually gap-filling exercises - and then sing the song with my students, often the karaoke version. I think it is excellent as far as phonetics goes, too. Songs can be an excellent starting point for discussion. Do you have any other ideas?

Yasuhiro Nagi ,Japan
I think some kind of songs are very effective to learn and remember English words or other languages. Songs awaken our interest in remembering the languages and countries and their culture. Singing a song is a kind of training to speak fluently and stimulate our brain.

Huongnt, Vietnam
I think using music in the classroom is a good idea for teaching English. With lovely melodies from the songs, the students can easily learn vocabulary. I often use music when teaching English

Michelle, Switzerland
I try to use music now and again in the class. I use songs for vocabulary and grammar and to expand on a related topic i.e. seasons. If the students don't like to sing we repeat the song in rhythm.

Kahn, Taiwan
Using songs is a method of teaching English that English speakers use in their conversation (which might be very different from the text that is used in textbooks).

Maria Alejandra , Colombia
Music is an awesome way to reinforce listening and phonetic skills. Let's rememeber that in order to learn a language studnets should be exposed to lots of audio. In addittion students love music and they can learn tenses, idioms expressions and teach the brain unconsciously to pronounce words accurately. All kind of music is welcome even classical music as it's great to stimulate our brain.

Na藝dia, Brazil
I like using music in the classroom and my students like it too, but I'd like some new ideas in how to use music in a different ways. How can I explore the grammar or things like that?

Gustavo, Brazil
I think it is great! We can improve our level of English studying songs. However in my opnion, it depends on what kind of music you use for studying. I have nothing against Hip Hop but I think there is a lot of slang in it. I prefer studying songs from The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Janis Joplin.

Vali, Spain
I think using music in class is very useful. Frist of all, music is an atractive thing for students, so it is a motivation, and also students can become more fluent in the languague. And students can improve their vocabulary, or use music and songs to study grammar.

Mrs Entisar, Libya
I used to use songs to teach English to primary pupils. But now I don't use it because I teach older students. I think that young learners love songs and their repetitive nature make using songs an ideal and beneficial way for language learning. Songs can improve children's pronunciation, make learning the new language enjoyable and repetiotion becomes more natural and exciting. Songs also can be used to develop children's language skills and reinforce and recycle vocabulary as well.

Fabio, Brazil
I agree that using music in the classroom is a good idea because it's a fun way to learn English. Students can also understand some specific words used in everyday English.

Spain
I use English songs whenever I can - almost everyday in the lower levels. Children love music and it is fun for them to learn new words through music. In addition, it is much easier to learn pronunciation and rhythm. And the most enjoyable part is when you invent your own songs. You can change some of the words and you have a new song.

Iryna,Ukraine
I think that using songs and music is really great because songs help students relax and they find them interesting. Also this helps developing their listening skills.

Lucia Suarez
I like to improve my students' English through songs. Students want to know each new word in them, and of course some expresions too. I think this a positive way to teach English.

Bagilya, Kazakhstan
Well, I suppose that some kinds of music help you to concentrate, but for me I prefer to study in silence. But music is pretty good for relaxing and make classes more enjoyable.

Remei, Spain
I like using top forties that you can easily find online with teenagers as a warm up to revise different types of parts of speech with filling in the gaps exercises because they already know the songs and most of the lyrics

Leon, Colombia
I'm sure learning with music is a good idea.

Leandro, Brazil
I would like to know and exchange ideas of how teachers explore this kind of resource and how effective you think it is.

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