THE KARAOKE CHANNEL

Using songs to teach English is always a good experience. You can motivate your students to learn more, you can help them improve their pronunciation, and you can also teach or review grammar if you choose songs that have the target structures in the lyrics.

Here is a good suggestion on how to find songs for you and your students to sing. It’s the Karaoke Channel (https://www.thekaraokechannel.com/). It offers a wide variety of karaoke songs that will help your students to have fun and improve their English. One of the great advantages of these videos is that the lyrics that appear on the screen change colors, so you always know what you have to sing and when.

You can subscribe to the channel, paying a monthly fee and having access to a great number of songs. However, you can also find lots of free songs on youtube. All you have to do is write “karaoke channel” in the youtube search box.

Here are a few examples for you to take a look:

Yesterday (The Beatles):

Seasons of Love (from the Broadway musical “Rent”):

Now that you know it, you can try to find other songs that you like or that you think your students will like. I sometimes meet students who were in my classes years ago and they still remember some of the songs we sang together in class. Music is a powerful tool in the English class.

Have fun and enjoy!

Carlos Gontow is an English teacher, actor and teacher trainer. He has had about 25 years of experience teaching children, teenagers and adults. He’s involved with teaching English through theater, games and songs. He’s the author of the books “The Classroom is a Stage – 40 Short Plays for English Students” and “101 Dicas Para Você Aprender Inglês Com Sucesso,” both published by DISAL. He’s also the author of the blog “Dicas Para Aprender Inglês”

https://dicasingles.wordpress.com

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