Teaching English songs

Una forma divertida y fácil para practicar la habilidad de listening es por medio de las canciones. Para la mayoría de los alumnos es agradable trabajar en clase con este tipo de actividades ya que muchas veces las simples conversaciones del CD son tediosas y no tan llamativas.

Existe una gran variedad de paginas en la web que nos ayudan en la practica de listening para facilitar el aprendizaje a los alumnos y una ventaja es que cada vez hay mas ejercicios para ellos con canciones mas modernas que llaman su atención.

A continuación aparecen algunas letras de canciones incompletas.
Escucha la canción por medio del link y completa cada espacio.

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Nivel: fácil

YELLOW

by Coldplay

Look at the .

Look how they shine for you

And everything you do.

Yeah, they were all yellow.

I came along.

I wrote a for you

And all the things you do.

And it was called Yellow.

So then I took my turn

Oh, what a thing to have done,

And it was all yellow.

Your skin

Oh, yeah, your skin and

Turn into something beautiful.

And you know,

You know I love you so,

You know I love you so.

I swam across,

I across for you.

Oh, what a thing to do.

'Cause you were all yellow.

I drew a line,

I drew a line for you.

Oh, what a thing to do.

And it was all yellow.

And your skin,

Oh, yeah, your skin and

Turn into something beautiful.

And you know,

For you I bleed myself dry,

For you I bleed myself dry.

It's true,

Look how they shine for you.

Look how they shine for you.

Look how they shine for,

Look how they shine for you.

Look how they shine for you.

Look how they shine.

Look at the .

Look how they shine for you

And all the things that you do.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=luwAMFcc2f8

Nivel:Intermedio

ANGELS
by Robbie Williams

I sit and wait.

Does an angel contemplate my ?

And do they know

The places where we go

When we're grey and ?

'Cos I've been told

That salvation lets their wings .

So when I'm lying in my bed,

Thoughts running through my ,

And I feel that love is dead,

I'm loving angels instead.

And through it all she offers me protection,

A lot of love and affection,

Whether I'm right or .

And down the waterfall

Wherever it may take me,

I know that life won't me.

When I come to call, she won't forsake me,

I'm loving angels instead.

When I'm feeling ,

And my pain walks down a one-way street.

I look above,

And I know I'll always be with love,

And as the feeling grows,

She breathes flesh to my ,

And when love is dead

I'm loving angels instead.

And through it all she offers me protection,

A lot of love and affection,

Whether I'm right or .

And down the waterfall

Wherever it may take me,

I know that life won't me.

When I come to call, she won't forsake me,

I'm loving angels instead.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCg2BoKiuOM

Nivel:Difícil

HAVE A NICE DAY
by Bon Jovi

Why you want to tell me how to live my life?

Who are you to tell me if it’s black or white?

Mama, can you hear me? Try to understand.

Is the difference

Between a boy and a man?

My daddy lived the lie,

It’s just the price that he paid.

his life,

Just away.

Oh, if there’s one thing I onto,

It gets me through the night.

I ain't going to do what I don’t want to.

I'm going to live my life.

Shining like a diamond,

Rolling with the ,

Standing on the ledge,

Show the wind how to .

When the world gets in my face

I say, have a nice day,

Have a nice day.

Take a look around you, look at what he sees.

We’re living in a home

Of hopes and dreams.

Let me be the first to a helping hand.

Everybody, pray enough to take a stand.

I knocked on every door,

On every street,

Looking for forgiveness,

What’s left to believe?

Oh, if there’s one thing I onto,

It gets me through the night.

I ain't going to do what I don’t want to.

I'm going to live my life.

Shining like a diamond,

Rolling with the ,

Standing on the ledge,

Show the wind how to .

When the world gets in my face

I say, have a nice day,

Have a nice day.

When the world keeps trying to me down,

I've got to raise my hands,

Going to stand my .

Well I say, have a nice day,

Have a nice day,

Have a nice day.

Saber Inglés : http://www.saberingles.com.ar/songs/exercises/109.HTML

Es una pagina muy útil en la practica de la habilidad de listening, ya que contiene muchas canciones clasificadas en tres diferentes niveles para ayudar en la pronunciación a través de ejercicios en cada canción. Al final de cada canción permite saber cual es tu puntuación de acuerdo a tus respuestas en cada actividad y si hay errores permite saber las respuestas correctas. También hay una parte de vocabulario muy útil al final de cada canción en caso de que existan dudas.