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Teaching With Songs: Musical Definitions

This document provides a step-by-step lesson plan for teaching English using the song "Afterglow" by Ed Sheeran. The lesson involves students describing pictures, listening to the song to match it with a picture, reading word definitions, listening again to find the defined words, and completing an interactive worksheet while listening. It also includes sharing and discussing the music video. The lesson is designed for online or in-person teaching of English at an intermediate level and incorporates speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills through analyzing lyrics and practicing vocabulary.

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Teaching With Songs: Musical Definitions

This document provides a step-by-step lesson plan for teaching English using the song "Afterglow" by Ed Sheeran. The lesson involves students describing pictures, listening to the song to match it with a picture, reading word definitions, listening again to find the defined words, and completing an interactive worksheet while listening. It also includes sharing and discussing the music video. The lesson is designed for online or in-person teaching of English at an intermediate level and incorporates speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills through analyzing lyrics and practicing vocabulary.

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Teaching With Songs:

Musical Definitions​ with Ed Sheeran

WELCOME​ to​ ​the​ SONG ACTIVITY FACTORY​!


Here is the place to be if you believe in the power of songs to teach English!.
The place to find ​Creativity​, ​Inspiration​, ​Teaching Ideas​ and ​Resources​ to bring Musical
Innovation​ to your English Language Teaching Practice!
Whether you teach English online or not, teaching with songs has a wider scope than you might think,
and it does not only mean gap-fill!. Check my older posts and don’t be afraid to try something new!
This week, the ​Song Activity Factory​ features Ed Sheeran’s new hit: ​AFTERGLOW​!
I hope ​YOU​ and your students have a BLAST with it!

Description​:

This song-based ​STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN​ for ​ENGLISH​ language ​TEACHING​ features the
lyrics and music video for “Afterglow” by Ed Sheeran. Students ​DESCRIBE ​pictures, ​LISTEN ​to the
song and choose one picture to represent it, ​EXPLAIN ​their choices, ​READ ​definitions of words,
LISTEN​ to the song and find the words defined, ​DO​ a listening exercise with an interactive
worksheet..

OBS​: This lesson plan was made for ​ONLINE TEACHING​, but it can be modified for face-to-face
instruction, as well.

Language level:​ B1
Learner type​: All ages
Skills​: speaking, reading, listening and writing
Language/grammar​: word definitions, describing pictures

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Materials​: Youtube video, genially presentation
Duration​: 45 min - 1h
Download your free teaching resources:​ instructions

FREE MATERIALS AND RESOURCES FOR THIS ACTIVITY:

Genial.ly presentation​ Music Video

Interactive worksheet

STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN

Step 1​ (7 min)
Warm-up
GENIAL.LY PRESENTATION

Slide 1.​ Ask different students to describe the pictures. Then tell them, they’re going to listen to
a song. Their task is to choose one of the pictures to represent the song, and be prepared to
explain why.
After playing the song once, ask students to write: L(left), M (middle) or R (right) in the chat box
to indicate which picture they chose. Ask random students to explain their choices. Also ask them
if they recognize the singer or the song (but don’t tell them who it is).

Step 2 (10 min)


Show the table with the word definitions.
Tell students they are going to listen to the song again, but now they have to identify words in
the song.
Ask students to read the definitions. Have them take a print of the screen, as as they listen to
the song, write their answers on a sheet of paper
Play the song 2x..

Step 3 (5 min)
In pairs (breakout rooms), students compare their answers.

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Step 4 (5 min)
Have students read the words and definitions for the correction

Step 5 (10 min)


Interactive Worksheet.
Share the link to the Interactive worksheet in the chat box:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/ll1508182gu

Tell students to listen and click on the extra words in the song.
To check their answers, tell students to click ​FINISH​! And then ​CHECK MY ANSWERS​!

Step 6 (7 min)
Students say how they imagine the music video is like. (ask students who know not to say it)
Play the video for them to check their guesses.k. Have some students comment on the video to
close the activity.
Music video ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGQfFCFUn4

ANSWERS
[Verse 1​]
Stop the clocks ​now​, it's amazing [Chorus]
You should see the way the light dances off your hair Oh, I will hold on to the afterglow
A million colours of ​light ​hazel, golden, and red Oh, I will hold on to the afterglow
Saturday morning is fading
The sun's reflected by the coffee in your hand [Verse 2]
My eyes are caught in your gaze all over ​here ​again The weather outside's changing ​fast
The leaves are buried under six inches of white
[Pre-Chorus] The radio is playing Iron & Wine
We were love-drunk, waiting on a ​new ​miracle This is a new dimension
Tryna find ourselves in the winter snow This is a ​hard ​level where we're losing track of time
So alone in love like the ​whole ​world had disappeared I'm holding nothing against it, except you and I
Oh, I won't be silent and I won't let go
I will hold on tighter 'til the afterglow
And we'll burn so bright 'til the darkness softly clears
away

That’s it for this first song-based LP in 2021! I hope this activity is helpful and enjoyable!

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Happy teaching! :)

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