About This Lesson
OPENING
Discussion: What type of music do you like? Who are your favourite musicians/band?
BODY
Listen to a song and fill out its work sheet.
Song 1 Here Comes the Sun
or
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dGnYIeXmHdcikdzNNDMm2?si=TZIDAe4EQ3inp2vbcYA2nQ
Bonus: write an extra stanza to the song!
Worksheet of weather expressions, origins, meanings, more expressions. Do we like the cold winter or the hot summer? What were George Harrison’s associations with the sun (negative or positive)?
Song 2 You Are My Sunshine
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hczVgr3jA5rs9F72O66Ul?si=ZdyuHc3GRkKCbMgZppcncQ
or
https://soundcloud.com/barbralicamusic/10-you-are-my-sunshine
After You Are My Sunshine go back and listen to the last chorus and note how the singer changes the tense of the verbs. Also, this is a great song for a discussion: “Is this a happy or sad song?”, “How do you relate to the emotions of the singer?”, “Did you know that (JImmie Davis), a co-author of the song was a racist (pro-segregation), do you think it’s OK to listen to the song?”.
CLOSURE
What have we learned? Sum up: the weather, music/;lyrics, expressions/chunks in English.
