دانلود کتاب A Teacher's Guide to Using Popular Music in the EFL Classroom

Learn how to make your lessons the most fun, interesting and effective in the entire school.
Engage your students, impress their parents and dazzle the director.
Do all this and more with your own unique knowledge of western music culture.

Pop music is a great way of grabbing hold of a class’s attention. It is immense fun for both the teacher and students.

What is more, the human brain is far more adept at retaining information when it is set to a rhythm and a catchy beat.

This book sets out with three introductory chapters looking at the relatively unknown scientific aspects of music in education.

The first looks at the “Mozart Effect.” How listening to music boosts learning performance of mental tasks like learning.
It explains how music is a universal language as well as a powerful teaching tool. It is one of the most motivating resources that can change the atmosphere in the language classroom within seconds.

The second examines the undisputed health benefits of music, from its long history as a medicine to the very latest discoveries in the fight against conditions like Alzheimer's.
The third investigates why such and an elementary form of human expression, and how it connects not only disparate cultures but entirely different species.
From there it launches straight into the songs themselves, with full instructions on different ways to use them effectively and explaining how you and your students can get the utmost benefit from them.
Each level, beginner, intermediate and advanced includes thirty different songs. Many of them you will know well, others might be new to both you and your class. Each one comes with a full introductory description, including background information about its success and the artist responsible for its creation. The lyrics are included in their entirety so that you can use them to create an appropriate close exercise. All you need to do is copy, paste and print. Wherever possible, there are different versions listed so that you can give your students a variety of performances.
Every genre is covered, from soul to ska, from rock to rap, from punk to country. An extra ten novelty songs are also included to round out the total to one hundred. Finally, there is a selection of practical online resources so that you can download the actual tracks and eventually find lots more.
This book is the ultimate guide to using music in the classroom. It will inspire, to educate and most importantly of all, help you cut down on your classroom prep.