ACTIVITY 3: Translate into Spanish songs of their favourite artist or music band .

LEVEL:3rd year 2 nd cycle.

AGE:(10/12 years).

GROUP SIZE: Individual and little group.

TIME: 50 minutes (a class)

AIMS:

GENERAL:

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.

SPECIFIC:

The students will be able to translate an English song into Spanish of their favourite artists or music band.

Thay must be able to sing the song in English.

MATERIALS:

- In the informatics class the student can connect to Internet and look for the information.

- The teacher shows the student a song and the translation into spanish.

- Finally, they publish the trnaslation of a song in the blog.

- Specific vocabulary.

PLACE: the classroom.

CONTENTS:

- Vocabulary specific of the song.

- Listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

- Pronuntiation in English

PROCEDURE:

- First of all the teacher shows a song in English into the class and asks to the pupils about the unknown words of the song.

- Secondly, the teacher asks about the favourite song of a music band or musician, later shows the students how to find information about them in the Internet.

- Finally the students must do a translation of a song.

- At last they can sing the song in English

ASSESSMENT:

- Do the students make a trnaslation of a song?

- Do the students looking for information about the songs of their favourit music bands or musicians?

- Do the students describe them in English?

- Do the student sing the songs in English?

COMMENT: The activity must be dynamic and it would be better doing the communicative approach

VARIANTS: We can select another theme while be interesting for the pupils. In this case is coldplay but they can select another group or musician

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

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