DECIBELIUS - A MULTIMEDIA MUSIC MAGAZINE

http://tcp.averroes.cica.es/~14700596/departamentos/countries-n.htm

http://www.musiciansbuyline.com/

http://www.coldplay.com/index.php

http://cancionestraducidas.vivelaweb.com/2/clocks.htm

http://tradu.scig.uniovi.es/trad.html

http://espanol.education.yahoo.com/

http://www.coasttocoasttickets.com/concerts/coldplay_tickets.shtml

http://www.gotickets.com/concert/coldplay.php

http://www.internetmusiclist.com/

TOPIC: Decibelius – a digital music magazine maked by the students.

DCB:

Aims:

- Listening and understand messages in variety verbal interactions, using the information for the carry variety tasks out related with the students experiences.

- Express and relate in single situations that have contents and developed well know using verbal procedures and being able of do cooperation work.

- Writing different kinds of text with different arrives about themes previously work in the classroom with the help of models and examples.

- Reading and understand different texts related with the pupils experiences.

- Learning and using all the means that they can use to obtain information and communicated in foreign language.

- Know the value the English language as a communicate mean.

- Show a positive attitude for learning a foreign language.

- Use the knowledge with other languages.

Blocks of contents:

- Block 1: Listening, speaking and conversation.

- Block 2: Reading and writing.

- Block 3: Knowledge about foreign language (English).

- Block 4: socio-cultural aspects and intercultural conscience.

Evaluation:

- Make conversations of familiar themes in communicative situations.

- Acquire the global information of different texts.

- Read and understand information in different texts.

- Make different kind texts.

- Use basic forms and structures of the foreign languages.

- Use strategies for learn to learn.

- Value the foreign language as a communication mean.

- Identify different characteristics of peoples who speak in a foreign language.

LEVEL: 3^rd year 2 ^nd cycle. (10/12 years).

MAIN AIMS:

- Make a music magazine all students together.

- Publish the magazine in an Internet blog.

- Practise english conversation and comunication among pupils.

- Practise listening, speaking, reading and writting skills in the classroom.

- Do a funny and interesting activity for the students.

- Facilitate the coherence between the previous experiences and the new ones.

- Favour the productive skill and the receptive

INPUT:

- The previous knowledge of the previous years.

- Examples of the activities including in the proyect.

- The students must have a English-Spanish dictionary.

- Some vocabulary about music and instruments.

- Knowledge about informatic applications.

- Knowledge about drama skills, role playing and improvisations.

PROFESOR PAPER.

Communicative approach, communicative language and teaching method/theory

The teacher is the guide of the class. Help to the student to build their owns knowledge.

OUTCOME:

A digital review publish in the Internet http://www.lacoctelera.com/decibelius

PROCEDURE AND TASK:

Example for a concert:

1.- Musician, singer or music group.

2.- Date, hour and place of the concert (city, country, etc…)

3.- Price of the ticket.

4.- Buy tickets point.

5.- Hotels, camping or similar in the country or city of the concert.

6.- Suggestions of transport, flying tickets and another.

7.- Style of music.

8.- A little comment about the future show.

English version

Example guide.

The first you must do is asked to the singer or the music group about the last work, for example about the last disc, the last concert or the last project. Secondly you can ask about the music history of the group, inspirations, influences, the first footsteps, the walked way, maybe if you can get personal information of the group then you take a very good interview.

After that you can introduce in the subject of new concerts tour, the dates, the prices, the places, countries, festivals and new projects. If you get information about exclusives concerts or about the work of the future disc, you interview will be wonderful and your boss maybe sponsor you, or you will be the exclusive journalist of the band.

Finally, you can ask about the fame, the stress of a live constantly controlled, the fans, advantages and disadvantages of be famous. For the last ensure you of agree for a interview in the next visit. In the next page you can find some questions of example.

Questions list.

Last work

What do you think about your last work?

What the sings that you prefer of your last disc?

Was difficult record a disc with so many songs in another country?

Is this your best disc?

Inspiration

What the inspiration of your letter’s songs?

What is your music influences?

What made you decide to study music? an instrument/voice?
Was there an individual who influenced your decision to study music?
Who was it and what did they do?
How/why did you choose this instrument to learn?
What is it about this instrument that attracted you?
What do you like about this instrument?
When did you begin playing this instrument? How old were you?
Who did you play for as a child?
What type of music do you enjoy playing the most?
Do you practice? How long?
How often do you perform?
Do you perform with a group? Or as a soloist?
Did you perform with a group as a child?
What is your favorite piece of music?
Would you play a portion of it for us to hear?

Fans and social live.

Is difficult to live with a lot of fans around the world?

Was changing yours live with the new fame?

What is your favourite food?
Favourite performing group?
Favourite song?
What do you like to do in your spare time?

Next shows.

When start your tour?

How many concerts you play this year?

When you return to our country?

Coldplay.- Chris Martin. I am a musician.

When did you start working on “X&Y”?
Chris Martin: Pretty much as soon as the last one was done. The good songs come along so rarely that you’ve always got to be on call. You always have to have your song pager on in case one of them wants to get in touch with you. [Laughs.] Some people wake up with “Yesterday” in their head. Other people have to spend two years trying to construct it. We’re from the latter. I’m also suspicious of people who say they’ve written 200 songs for their next album, because they tend to be terrible.

How many songs have you written since the last album?
Two hundred.

And how many of them are terrible?
About 190.

The lyrics to several of the songs, particularly “What If,” sound pretty anxious.
Yeah, of course they’re anxious. I’m at a point in my life where I’ve got a lot of great things, but there’s also a lot of bad things going on in my life and in the place where I live, i.e., the world. So there’s a lot of tension in those opposites.

What’s bad in your life? You seem like you’ve got a nice thing going.
Well, yeah. But I’ve got the same issues as everybody else. I do have a great situation. I’m in the best band in the world. I have a great family. But everything you love requires a lot of work. I didn’t want to sing about touring or, you know, where do I put my Grammys? These aren’t things anyone can really relate to. And we all have the same issues of health and death. Just because we’re in Coldplay doesn’t make that stuff any different.

A lot of critics have compared your sound to U2--
Yeah, but I don’t really hear that. We definitely take a lot from U2 in the way we think about things and the way we approach what we do. The right comparison is that we basically do what they say--it’s like they’re the 12th graders and we’re in the fifth grade. They’re a great template of how not to f--- up too bad.

One of the things you certainly share in common with U2 is a social consciousness, the idea that pop stars should at least try to do something with their platform. You’ve gotten heavily involved with the issue of global fair trade. Why?
I know musicians can’t get into politics, because everyone will just shoot you down. Everyone’s so cynical about it. But there comes a point where you have to be like, “Well, f--- it, we live here, too. It’s not just up to people in Washington to decide how the world is gonna work.” We didn’t know anything about trade until we went to places like Ghana and Haiti, and they’d say to us, “Will you tell your people to stop dumping their crops on us.” And we’d say, “Well, we’re just a band, but OK, we’ll see what we can do.” None of us understood that trade is what causes poverty at root levels.

After a year and a half of touring and then another year and a half of making an album, you guys must get on each others’ nerves a bit. How do you sort out issues? Do you argue? Group therapy?
Things can get very tense. But we’re not really fist-fighters. In most bands, the arguments always tend to involve the singer, and in this case I would get absolutely destroyed by at least two members of this band in a fistfight.

Wait, only two? Who’s the guy in the band you could take?
I’m pretty sure that me and Guy [Berryman], our bass player, would have an equal match. But I would never even approach [drummer] Will [Champion] with my hands raised. It’s very good to be scared of your drummer, actually. I’m sure Bono’s scared of Larry. Wouldn’t Larry win that one? Oh my God, yeah.