Somebody to love by Queen: Listening with Lyrics Training

 

Shared by Mª Jesús Walias: 

I've registerd as a teacher, I've created my own gap-fill activities, which means you can focus on certain features of language in a song, and of course, learners could do this for each other too.You might use a popular song with the whole class, but the real benefit of LyricsTraining is probably for individuals. 

I chose Somebody to love by Queen

https://es.lyricstraining.com/play/queen/somebody-to-love/H5ofqYNxy5#ibw

Of course, music – like so much content that used in the classroom – is generally a question of individual taste. It’s for this reason I don’t have much time for music in lessons now, apart from some exceptional cases. 

So, I think that LyricsTraining is a resource which might be best used if learners choose the songs that they want to work with in class or at home.I would still use LyricsTraining in the classroom to demonstrate how easy it is to use, and to point out a few features. 

Apart from that though, I would suggest learners sign up and use it in their own time, and – if enough of them are interested – I would ask them to report on how well they did, perhaps to compare scores. 

However, I would be careful to only recommend it to the right group of learners.