How can you use songs in the classroom?Here are some ways in which you can use songs to spice up your classes:1. Prepare slips with the lines of the lyrics. Play the song and ask students to order the lines.Variation 1: in order to lower the level of difficulty, you can prepare cards with whole verses.Variation 2: in order to increase the level of difficulty you can also cut the slips in two parts, so that students have to match the halves of the lines and order them.2. Tell students the title of the song and the singer/band that performs it. Ask students to say what they think the song is about.3. Prepare a list including some words that appear in the song and some words that dont. Play the song and ask students to tick the words they hear.4. Prepare a worksheet with the lyrics, replacing some words with blanks. Play the CD and ask students to fill the blanks.Variation 1: you can choose to blank out words that rhyme with others in the text and have students guess what the words are.Variation 2: you can offer alternatives for each blank, as in a multiple-choice exercise.Variation 3: instead of using blanks, you can type the same number of dashes as there are letters in the word.Variation 4: you can put a synonym of the word from the blank after it.5. Prepare a worksheet with the lyrics and add some extra words. Play the song and ask students to cross out the words that dont belong in it.6. Write some words from the song on the board. Ask students to imagine what kind of story the song tells, using the words on the board.Richmond Publishing Photocopiable material CEL - 2011HABILIDADES - Aulas de Lingua Inglesao aluno devera ter desenvolvido as seguintes habilidades: a) habilidade oral: comunicar-se nas areas social e profissional, lidar com situacoes cotidianas com vocabulario pertinente, como por exemplo, dar e receber instrucoes simples ao telefone, falar sobre atividades no trabalho e experiencias vivenciadas. b) habilidade de compreensao falada e escrita: ler e entender textos simples, captar ideias centrais e detalhes em textos contextualizados, tais como narrativas, monologos, dialogos, entre outros. c) habilidade de expressao escrita: redigir notas, emails e relatorios simples, curriculos e resumos baseados em modelos ou assuntos que sao do seu universo. CONTEUDO PROGRAMATICO Vocabulario/campos lexicais: paises, nacionalidades, relacoes familiares, esportes, habitos alimentares nacionais e internacionais, cargos e profissoes, vocabulario relacionado ao universo do trabalho, moradias e edificacoes, talentos e habilidades, datas comemorativas nacionais e internacionais, expressoes temporais, quantificadores, expressoes monetarias, expressoes idiomaticas, cores, roupas e calcados, estabelecimentos comerciais e de servicos, com os itens lexicais pertinentes ( ex restaurantes: louca e talheres, hoteis, roupa de cama e banho). Gramatica: adjetivos, conectivos, pronomes e adjetivos possessivos, pronomes objetos, adverbios, preposicoes, formas interrogativas, formas comparativas e superlativas, tempos verbais e formas continuas, oracoes subordinadas e coordenadas, conditional sentences (1st e 2nd types), modals, question-tags, Present e Past Perfect, there is/are, used to/ there used to be. Funcoes comunicativas: apresentar-se e apresentar outros, convidar, aceitar e recusar convites, fazer