Audio Aids: Songs

Everyone likes listening to songs, so why don't we exploit songs to teach English as a foreign language in Indonesia? Group III of my media classes demonstrated how they utilized songs as the media in teaching English.

Songs in the Teaching of Listening
Before listening, the teacher gives the students a piece of A4-sized paper with the title of the song --"If I Were You" by Hoobastank--written on the top. The students also receive some small pieces of paper, each of which contains a line from the song.

These pieces of paper have double-sided sticky tape. While listening to the song, the students try to rearrange the scrambled song lines (in the smaller pieces of paper) so that they have the full lyrics of the song (in the bigger piece of paper). The song can be played several times to enable the students to check the accuracy of the order.
You could download the paper here.

Songs in the Teaching of Grammar
Before listening, the teacher gives the students the lyrics of the song "Trouble is a Friend" by Lenka. Some of the verbs in the lyrics are omitted, and replaced by blanks, for example:

And no matter what I (4)___ him, he always (5) ___ to grow oh, oh
He (6) ___ what I see and he (7) ___ what I know oh, oh

While listening to the songs several times, the students fill in the blanks with the correct verb in the simple present tense.
(The paper of this group is not available yet.)

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I like the songs they have chosen because the lyrics are meaningful. Two thumbs up for the presenters.