In the example below, the verbs are blanked out. An alternative way of doing partial song dictation is to require students to listen for particular kinds of vocabulary or structures in the song without specifying where they occur. In these songs, there is a long list of names or objects. For example, Billy Joel's song 'We Didn't Start the Fire' has a list of American cultural icons. I find the old children's song below useful in a lesson on parts of the body.
Students listen and write down all the body parts that they hear, but ignore the other words.
The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone Partial song dictation can also require students to write down phrases from songs. Finding the Lyrics Song lyrics are supplied with many CDs. If you don't have the lyrics, the Internet is a wonderful resource for finding them. Because of copyright reasons, WWW sites for lyrics often close down without warning, so it may not be useful to give URLs for lyric sites. However, it's usually possible to find any lyrics using a search engine.