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Lesson 3:

Music
Listening & Vocabulary
Goals for this lesson: 2Havo
A2: Can understand information from short recorded passages about
predictable everyday matters that are delivered slowly and clearly.
A2: Can get the meaning out of a song lyric and apply it in their own
Materials used in class:
The class Facebook page
2 YouTube clips
A whiteboard
Prepare before class
Students will have to find the definitions of the following words. Their definitions
should be something like these:
Chorus: part of a song that is repeated several times, usually after each verse (=
set of lines).
Lyrics: the words of a song.
Pop: modern popular music, usually with a strong beat, created with electrical or
electronic equipment, and easy to listen to and remember.
Song: a usually short piece of music with words that are sung.
Beat: to make a regular sound or movement to music.
Rhythm: a strong pattern of sounds, words, or musical notes that is used in
music, poetry, and dancing.
In class Warming up your ears Students have 15 minutes to finish
this exercise.
Students listen to the clip and then answer the questions. Students will have to
listen to the clip more than once. Here are the answers to the questions.
1. Listen to the chorus. What is happening to the people and the children?
People hurt and people dying, Children and hurt and are crying.
2. Who are the terrorists?
The CIA and the KKK
3. Who must help us?
Father (God)
4. Completed lines from the song:
People living like they aint got no mamas
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
When you hate then youre bound to get irate, yeah
Nations dropping bombs
Chemical gasses filling lungs of little ones
What is going wrong in this world
Only visions of them dividends

The truth is kept secret


Its swept under the rug
Can you practice what you preach?
Send some guidance from above
What ever happened to the fairness and equality?
5. What is happening to the man running towards the end of the video and
why?
He is being arrested because he has been putting posters everywhere.
(vandalism)
6. Where is the love?
Its inside the people.
Remember the students to hand in their answers via the answer box.
Creating your own Pop Song Lyrics Students have 35 minutes to finish
this exercise.
Give each student a piece of chalk/pen and tell them to fill the board with pop
song lyrics. Then put them in pairs, and get them to use the words on the board
to create a new dialogue. Now let all the students do this on paper. Make them
write as many lyrics as possible.
Together with a classmate they will now create their own Pop song chorus by
mixing up some of the lines or words they wrote down. However, the song has to
have meaning. It has to have a message or say something, it could be about the
given themes. When everyone is done let the Pop song lyrics be exchanged
between all the pairs. And see if they can read it out loud and find out its
meaning. If they cant let the creators help out. An example is given on the site.
What is the theme?
Monitor the time and make sure you let the students start exchanging after 25
minutes.
Make sure that all the students will post their pop song lyrics on the Class
Facebook page.

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