Hi everybody,
Now that the school year is almost ending
if it is not already over, at least in some parts of the world, I would like to
upload the song California Dreaming as summer starts approaching.
This song was released a long time ago, in
1966, just as face B of a single by The Mamas and The Papas.
It was Monday Monday,
released in March 1966, the song which became the band's only number-one hit in
the US, reaching number three in the UK, and first number-one on Spain's new
radio programme Los 40 Principales.
Monday,
Monday won many awards in the
following years. However, it is California
Dreaming, that face B song, the one we have been hearing non-stop throughout
the years.
Quite an easy listening exercise for A1 & A2 students, follow
the steps at the end of the song lyrics or go through the stanzas as you think
your students may like.
Aspects of the language to be considered may be:
. PHONETICS: /liːvz]/versus /livz/
- /skai/ versus /ski/ -/seif/versus /seiv/ - /əʊ/ versus /ɔː/, etc… and different meanings of words accordingly
. PRONUNCIATION: e.g.: ‘winter’s’ and other words in American, Australian or British
English.
. LANGUAGE SYSTEM/GRAMMAR: conditional
sentences, verbal tenses (present, past, present perfect), prepositions (on,
in, into), nouns and adjectives.
The first link is the official video by The Mamas and the Papas and it is a
shorter version than Sia’s.
The third link is just the shortened version for a Spanish magazine store
summer advertisement.
At the end of the song there are some more versions:
the one including the lyrics, so that the students can self-correct, and a
light karaoke version, so that they can sing.
I hope you and your students like it.
June 7th, 2016
OFFICIAL
VIDEO CLIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kcmwXUdDCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TFmncOtzcE
SIA'S VERSION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TFmncOtzcE
SONG +
LYRICS
karaoke
STEPS TO FOLLOW
1. Print the lyrics/project the lyrics on a screen.
2. Watch the video and listen to the song (official
song video).
3. Read the lyrics before listening to the song for a
second time.
4. Then, while listening choose the
right word.
5. Listen to it again and check.
THEN,
6. Watch the video + lyrics and check the exercise
again.
7. Finally, listen to the karaoke version, if possible,
and sing.
Singing
and learning the songs by heart will improve your students’ pronunciation,
stress, rhythm & intonation, apart from other skills and aspects of the
Language, such as vocabulary and language system.
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