Creative Teacherette

Here is one more idea for interesting language teaching. Today, we're dealing with music, reading, listening, singing and competition. I made this Power Point Presentation for a class that deals with culture of English speaking countries. I chose 10 songs that were number 1 on January 1st on the Billboard Top 100 in the previous century (every ten years, starting from this year) and made a quiz on that topic. This activity is great for checking reading comprehension in a different way than usual. What you should do is the following:  Divide your students into groups and give each group a handout with a song and its short description . They should read it and make notes and try to remember as much as possible. Then they should make new groups in which there will be one student from each initial group, so that in each new group, every student knows something about one song. They should briefly present their songs to each other and then play the game. You shoul...

Not so long ago, I had some problems with studying because I couldn't concentrate and my motivation was nonexistent, so I tried to find something that would help me. And I was really lucky. I found a channel on YouTube called Study Music Project , which contains some instrumental music that is supposed to help you while studying. Numerous comments underneath the videos say that it really works, so I decided to give it a try. And I have to say that I liked it a lot. I just let the music play silently in the background and focused on my studying and somehow it became easier.  So what exactly is so special about this music? Here is was the official site of the Project says: The Study Music Project is an online musical experiment, founded by Dennis Kuo, a biochemistry major and music history minor at UCLA dedicated to compose, create, and produce music solely to enhance the student’s studying experience. The mission and vision of the Study Music Project is to provide...