This is an awesome idea for the first day class after winter holidays from Olga Pavlova. She suggests collecting students’ memories about winter holidays into a box.
A student makes a sentence using the appropriate tense (Past Simple to talk about what they did. Present Simple to talk about what people usually do during winter holidys.), a teacher clicks on the bauble and sends it to the box. Or a student can choose an expression and ask his friends a question.
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These colourful cards from Brainy Publishing will help you prepare for the first lesson after winter holidays in a creative way.
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#Grade8worldofmusic
We are starting a new unit about music tomorrow with my 8th grade students. Task 1b requires to listen to a piece of music and match it with the genre (a-g), however, there are no audio files 😔🎼.
I collected those songs given in the Teacher's Book with the help of this amazing Telegram bot - @WOWmuz_bot and thought you might also find them helpful. Enjoy 🎧🎧🎧
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🎼 Type: Classical
🎙 Performer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
📀 Title: A little night music - I Allegro
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🎼 Type: Rap
🎙 Performer: Ice-T
📀 Title: "NY-NY"
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🎼 Type: Pop
🎙 Performer: Riccardo Fogli
📀 Title: Malinconia
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🎼 Type: Jazz
🎙 Performer: Ray Charles Robinson
📀 Title: I got a woman
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🎼 Type: Country/Folk
🎙 Performer: The Chieftains
📀 Title: Cotton-Eyed Joe
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🎼 Type: Heavy metal
🎙 Performer: Five Finger Death Punch
📀 Title: Sham Pain
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🎼 Type: Hip hop
🎙 Performer: MFBTY
📀 Title: Fly like an eagle
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...or if you find the files too heavy you can replace the activity with this one:
Write on the blackboard the following types of music: blues, classical, country and western, heavy metal, indie, jazz, pop, R&B, rap, reggae, rock'n'roll, soul. Play this file and ask students to guess which type is being played.
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Answer key:
1. blues
2. jazz
3. reggae
4. country
5. indie
6. soul
P.S. This activity is from "Solutions" Pre-Intermediate, second edition.
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