Chants

   Who doesn’t like to listen to music or make a loud noise in the stadium shouting: “Go! Go! Go!”

             

   What about a simple text spoken over a background of rhythm or music. Actually, it’s a definition of a chant. I do not have the opportunity to use it in class, but it can be really useful, why? 

A class with rhythm or music makes fun!

  According to PS Morgan (Dreaminenglish.wordpress.com), music always energizes students, and students have to pronounce the words in a rhythm. Furthermore, chants could help a lot to students when they have to remember some teaching points that are difficult, longer, etc. Besides, I think that all of us can teach what we want using chants. Why don’t we see one chant to exemplify these points of views:

                          Color Chant  (By Dr. Jean Feldman)

If you're wearing RED
Put your hands on your head.

If you're wearing BLACK,
Then touch your back.

If you're wearing BROWN,
Touch the ground.

If you're wearing GREEN,
Wash your hands real clean.

If you're wearing BLUE,
Put your hands on your shoe.

If you're wearing PINK,
Then think and think.

If you're wearing GRAY,
Have a nice day.

If ORANGE is what you wear,
Then touch your hair.

If you're wearing WHITE,
Squeeze your hands real tight.

If you're wearing PURPLE,
Say, "Murple gurple."

If you're wearing YELLOW,
Wave to your fellow.

You're all looking mighty fine,
And that's the end of the color rhyme!

 Students love music & rhythm

   I think you notice what I mean, chants help a lot, and in this case there are a lot of colors, parts of body, verbs, nouns, etc. that students will use all the time. So depending on what the teaching points are, chants would be really useful tools. Of course, they take time to create them, but the results will be great. I hope you could find this post useful.