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"If music be the food of love, play on"
(From 'Twelfth Night' by Shakespeare)


(Updated on 30/08/2010)


 

 


Flashcards and Cliparts - Vocabulary -
Listening -
Conversation questions
- Facts -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print -
Lesson plans
- Webquests -
Interactive games - Games to print -
Songs
- Idioms and Proverbs - Cartoons - Poems - Stories - Videos

 


Related pages :

Songs / Music - National anthems - Spelling words in songs

Prohibition
(US History - Jazz Age)

Downloading music



Flashcards and Cliparts :

  • Guitar
    - Vocabulary
    (mikedidonato.com)

    A tumtable
    "Disc jockey mixing records on tumtable
    in party."

    (fotosearch.com)
    Lien modifié


    Music, Hobbies
    & Entertainment
    :
    Entertainers - Hobbies -
    Instruments -
    Outdoor Recreation -
    Types of Entertainment
    (aussi en ESPAGNOL)
    flashcards

    (esl-library.com)
    Click on Flashcard Library.
    Lien modifié

     

    Music
    (msdadmin.scican.net)

    Guitarist


    A band


    (No link)

     


 

Vocabulary :

  • Exploring Instruments - Can you name them ?
    (Primary Resources)

  • Music - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son (languageguide.org)

 

 

  • Music - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :
    - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
    - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
    - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.
  • British Pop Music (learnenglish.de) :
    Banghra - BritPop - Garage - Glam Rock (aka Glitter Rock) - Goth - Grunge - Hip Hop - Indie - Madchester - Mods - Northern Soul - Punk - Rockers - Ska - Soca - Techno - UK Garage - Learning English through Pop Music - Interesting British Bands

 


Listening :

 

 

 

 

  • Sound and Hearing (crick.northants.sch.uk)
    1) Identifying sounds 2) Sorting instrument sounds

 

  • Music - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son (languageguide.org)

 

  • Learn about instruments (datadragon.com)
    " Learn about the different families and different types of instruments.
    Click on any instrument to hear it
    ."
  • Cartoon Conductor
    "Roll the cursor around the cartoon to animate it with images and music!"

 

  • Music - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :
    - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
    - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
    - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.

 

Facts :

  • Band Name Origins
    For example : DIRE STRAITS
    "It describes the financial situation they were in when forming the band." 

    (digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com)




Richard William Wright (1943 - 2008)
"was a self-taught pianist and keyboardist
best known for his long career with Pink Floyd."

(Wikipedia)

Obituary : Pink Floyd's Richard Wright
"As a keyboardist and songwriter,
Richard Wright helped create the pioneering psychedelic sound
that made Pink Floyd one of the world's greatest groups."

(BBC)

 

"Remember That Night"
Live at The Royal Albert Hall 2006

(YouTube)
- the LYRICS :
"Let the night surround you
We're halfway to the stars"

 

 

 

Conversation questions :

 


INTERACTIVE exercises :

  • Yo Mo Concerto By Rick Scott

  • " Look at the animation and learn about Mozart. Now try to order the phrases about Mozart's Life."
    Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

 

 

  • Music Vocabulary - (about.com)
    "Match the verb in the column on the left with the correct noun from the column on the right"
  • Music (intermediate level) - TRUE OR FALSE? (english.specialist.hu)
  • New York Philharmonic Kidzone - (nyphilkids.org)
    Musician's Lounge, Composers' Gallery, Instrument Storage Room, Instrument Laboratory,
    Conductor/Soloist Dressing Rooms, Newsstand,
    Games (quizzes, scavenger hunts)
    , and Composer's Workshop.

 

  • The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning
    - to "introduce symphonic music, the orchestra and its instruments"
    with "games, classroom activities, home activities, description of how hearing works, information and
    audio clips"

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

 


Lesson plans :

  • Action Chant - - This website is temporarily unavailable. Try again!
    "Rédaction et interprétation d’un Action Chant à partir d’un document audiovisuel de Kathy Toxel "Verb Song" que les élèves découvre en compréhension orale.
    La séquence se déroule sur quatre séances...
    Niveau A1/A2 - La tâche a été élaborée pour des élèves de 5° d’un niveau faible à la fin de 2° trimestre. "

    (Ac. Toulouse)

  • Création d’un Jazz Chant - Séquence élaborée pour le niveau A2 - This website is temporarily unavailable. Try again!
    (Ac. Toulouse)

  • Susan Boyle to star in Japanese show - a lesson plan
    "Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle will appear on a popular Japanese TV show on New Year’s Eve."
    WARM-UPS :
    SUSAN BOYLE / BRILLIANT YEAR / 2010 / DREAM A DREAM / JAPAN
    (breakingnewsenglish.com)

 

 

  • Blues Journey (artsedge.kennedy-center.org)
    "Through informative interviews and a wealth of music clips, you'll learn the ins and outs of blues music and find out
    about the history of the blues using the loose lesson plan.
    Provides related lesson plans and website links. Flash-based resource"

  • Rock+Roll - lesson plans (Music and History / Myths) - (rockhall.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
  • Hip-hop is history at American museum
    - a lesson plan
    with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion,
    reading and vocabulary exercises."
    (Breaking News English)
  • Apple iTunes sees billionth download
    - a lesson plan
    with a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises.
    "An American teenager became part of history yesterday
    when he downloaded the billionth song from the Apple iTunes music store..."
    (Breaking News English)
  • Music - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :
    - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
    - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
    - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.

 


Webquests :

 

  • The 1960s (shs.d211.org)
    "The purpose of this activity is to explore, analyze, and experience the issues, people and events of the 1960s."
    cf. Woodstock

 

 


INTERACTIVE games :

  • Music - Interactive Crossword (BBC)
  • "The Spanish-speaking immigrants of the Caribbean brought creative new music-- and new percussion instruments--to the United States. Can you name these instruments?
    Play the game and find out!"
    (memory.loc.gov)

 

Games TO PRINT :

 

  • Musical instruments - word search - 3 levels (discoveryeducationalsoftware.co.uk)

 


Songs :

 

  • Put Your Records On sung by Corinne Bailey Rae :
    "Three little birds, sat on my window.
    And they told me I don't need to worry.
    Summer came like cinnamon
    So sweet,
    Little girls double-dutch on the concrete...
    The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same"

    - with the VIDEO (YouTube)
  • We are in an Orchestra - a song
    - with an animation and activities to print
    Learn the instruments.

    (British Council)

 

  • Exercices sur des chansons actuelles que l'on peut écouter (baladre.org)




  • National anthems :

     

    • United States - National Anthem (national-anthems.net) :
      Listen to vocal anthem - Listen to instrumental anthem - Lyrics

     

     

  • Music by Gigi D'Agostino :
    "Music was my first love
    and it will be my last
    music of the future
    and music of the past...
    and music of the power...
    to live without my music
    would be impossible to do
    in this world of trouble
    my music pulls me through"

  • Let The Music Play by Barry White :
    "I've got to hide what's killin' me inside
    Let the music play
    I just want to dance the night away"
  • 'Music' by Steven Seagal (lyrics on the CD : Songs from the Crystal Cave)
    "Desperation, abomination, disintegration, degradation
    Poverty, treachery...
    .. the music will set us free"


Idioms and Proverbs :

 

 

  • Relax-Ay-Voo by Dean Martin :
    "You're as tight as a drum
    I was loose as a deuce
    You're as gay as a tune"


Cartoons :

Poems :

  • THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN - Robert Browning (indiana.edu)
    "And even spoiled the women's chats,
    By drowning their speaking
    With shrieking and squeaking...
    `Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
    ``Anything like the sound of a rat
    ``Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!''...
    And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
    You heard as if an army muttered;
    And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
    And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
    And out of the houses the rats came tumbling..."

    - to illustrate noises
    - with the VIDEO : Part 1 (YouTube)
    + Part 2

 

 

 

Stories :

 

 

Videos :

 

  • Elevator music
    "Problems arise when a conservative old man walks into the same lift as a 15-year-old girl who likes to play loud music from her mobile phone."
    (YouTube)

     

  • WOODSTOCK :