Сreative ways to learn a foreign language
Learner-based Teaching
Class activities can be done using information that the students themselves bring to the lesson. In the first stage of learner-based teaching students prepare a certain material entirely base on their own knowledge, skill and ability, then in the second this material is passed over or performed to other students to carry out different activities with the aim of practising a particular skill, function, grammar item, etc.
The role of the teacher can be very varied with a wide range of nuances to shade off. He can be an active participant in the group genuinely taking part in the activities, contributing ideas and opinions, or relating personal experiences. He is also a helper and resource responding to students' requests to help with vocabulary or grammar. And he can be a monitor with checking and correcting the students' work and controlling their activities. Here the questions How? and When? (at what stage of the process) are very important.
Music and Songs
Music is highly memorable: songs simply stick in the head with their rhythm and repetitive patterns. And music is highly motivating, especially for children, adolescents and younger adult learners. It would be clearly unwise to ignore this flexible and attractive resource in language teaching.
The frequently mentioned reasons against taking music to the class (it is noisy, pop songs are poor in vocabulary and grammar, and they are full of slang, students only listen and do not work, etc.) can easily be overdone by the fact that the language of songs is usually simple and natural, and it contains basic conversational expressions and grammar items, not speaking of their cultural background and the wide range of possible topics to be discussed after listening to music or watching a video clip.
What is perhaps the greatest value of having music in the classroom is that you have fun or relax between 'more