Music in Teaching

How to use music to teach ANYTHING!

Music is a wonderful way to learn anything.  And it is easy to use music in the classroom.  Just use the music from a popular song that all the students know, and add your own educational lyrics.

For example.  I've been teaching English in a Chinese senior middle school (grades 10-12).  All the students are familiar with the music of Jingle Bells, Twikle Twinkle Little Star, Are You Sleeping?, and Auld Lange Syne (just to name a few).  And one of their units of the text book deals with nutrition.

So, I made lyrics to go with the music of the songs (aforementioned).

Like this:

To the tune of "Are You Sleeping?":

To the tune of "Jingle Bells":

To the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle...."

To the tune of "Auld Lange Syne":

[For more good ideas, see my CHANTS page]

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