Article - English through Music

A través de la web de la Universidad de Comillas podemos acceder al artículo 'English trough music - Designing CLIL materials for young learners' de la autora Jane Willis. 

THE MUSICAL - ACTIVITIES ABOUT 'MARY POPPINS' AND 'THE SOUND OF MUSIC'

Download the activities about the films 'Mary Poppins' and 'Sound of music'

SOUND OF MUSIC

                                                      MARY POPPINS

 

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The leitmotif technique

CLASSICS FOR KIDS - RESOURCES

CLASSICS FOR KIDS  is an educational website developed by Cincinnati Public radio. There are lots of lesson plans carefully structured. You can find activities from Primary to Secondary education.

Games are also available

Learn the musical scale - Primary Education

There are many resources we can use to teach the musical scale:

C Major scale (Escala de Do Mayor)

A scale is a sequence of notes, ordered by pitch. A scale can be ascendig or descending.

The following activity comes from the webpage Bromera, which has a full range of digital activities in English.

About how to teach the name of the notes, you can teach them using the American notation (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) or in Spanish.

 

Using the wall glockenspiel our students can learn how to sing the different notes of the scale and they can play them on the smart board:

SOME MUSIC APP's TO LEARN AND TEACH MUSIC

SOME MUSIC APPs to LEARN and TEACH MUSIC

INTONATIO

VIRTUOSO PIANO

PIANO TUTOR FOR iPAD

EASY MUSIC FOR KIDS

LET's GO TO THE OPERA!

MUSICAL NOTES AND RESTS

Slideshare presentation about CLIL in the Music class

English Through music: effective CLIL lessons for young learners. de Enric Calvet

MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD

Renaissance means 'rebirth'. It was called like that as Europe lived a renewed interest in learning and culture, centring in particular on many of the Ancient Greece and Rome ideas.
New geographical discoveries were made, explorers like Columbus made their great voyages.

CHURCH MUSIC (RELIGIOUS MUSIC)

-  Choral polyphony style
-  Sung a capella (without instrumental     accompaniment)
-  Most important forms: mass and motet (in four parts, composers began to add the bass part)
-  Music based on modes
-  Use of the 'cantus firmus' (not a plainchant anymore)
-  Imitation (imitative texture)
-  England: anthems. They are like motets but sung in English

VENICE, THE POLYCHORAL STYLE

-  Music for more than one choir
-  A dialogue between the two choirs is produced
-  Gabrielli

MUSIC IN GERMANY

-  The Protestant church led by Martin Luther gave more importance to the people in the religious service

-  Hymns were written to be sung by the whole congregation: the German chorale

SECULAR MUSIC

Italy: frottola and madrigal
Spain: villancico
German: lied
France: chanson

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Canzona

Ricercar

Toccata

Variations

Fantasia

You can also check:

 INSTRUMENTS OF THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD

NURSERY RHYMES, SINGING IN THE CLASSROOM

Dar clase de música en inglés en infantil y en el primer ciclo de primaria muchas veces es un problema. No siempre es fácil adecuar el nivel de inglés a niños tan pequeños y mantener su atención cuando el idioma empleado no es su primera lengua no es sencillo.

Un recurso muy útil y divertido es el uso de nursery rhymes o canciones infantiles, siempre que se pueda mejor con letra (lyrics). Muchas veces Youtube nos da la oportunidad de activar los subtitulos.

Aquì os dejo algunos de los mejores videos que se pueden encontrar en Youtube:

• Most popular nursery rhymes

•  The animals on the farm

• 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive 

TIME SIGNATURES

An interesting video about Time signatures:

Thanks to: Music Theory Guy Youtube channel