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Lesson plans for developing listening and speaking through songs

Abstract:

This job has been developed to highlight the importance of music in people s lives wherever they are. This is also a suggestion for teachers who can take advantage of the benefits of music as an important resource in the English classrooms to practice listening and speaking skills with activities related to vocabulary and grammatical structures. This research work contains seven lesson plans to work with pre intermediate students from ten to twelve. The activities in the lesson plans are for practicing adjectives, nouns, verbs, verb to be, present continuous, simple present tense and simple past tense. Four of the seven lesson plans were applied in two different schools with students from sixth and seventh grades. When applying our project, the results obtained in the English classrooms were greatly pleasant for us. We could see how the activities with music created a motivated environment among the students to make the teaching-learning process easier in the second language acquisition. Besides, we got the objective of developing listening and speaking skills in an enjoyable and useful way