5. Using video-clips:

• freeze-frames: it is a good way to practice prediction, descriptions, using present tenses;

• predicting vocabulary list: prepare a list of action verbs that come up in a video and ask your students to reconstruct the story; then show the clip and compare it with predictions;

• guessing the music and song; prepare a list of questions, like:

• Is the song fast or slow?

• What kind of instruments voice it?

• What are the lyrics about?

Show sections of the video clip without the sound first.

6. Music with young children:

• A majic word: compose a long nonsense word that includes all the difficult letter-combinations, like Supercalifragilisticexpiallidocious; get your students pronounce segments first, then sing the word;

• Jazz chants: jazz chants consist of time stressed phrases of certain length that can be tapped out with foot, hand or pencil. You can target vocabulary and expressions to your particular students, e.g.:

After dinner

I might go dancing

See a film

Or talk to friends.

Jazz chants help to pactice syllable stress, enunciation, intonation and just to have fun.

TASK: choose an activity, establish the time alotted, aim and level, prepare a mini-lesson and peer-teach it to your fellow students.

1 Китайский квартал в Нью-Йорке. – Примеч. пер.

2 Plugger (англ.) – музыкант, чаще всего пианист, рекламирующий новые песни, проигрывая их перед публикой. – Примеч. пер.

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