LISTENING PRACTICE

BY USING SONGS
Suhanto Kastaredja
Email:
suhantokastaredja@yahoo.com
Staf Pengajar Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
FKIP-Universitas PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya
Learn Songs
Learn to sing folk songs, campfire songs and group-singing songs that native English speakers sing.
Newest "Learn a Song" Podcast

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - March 23, 2012

Focusing on "linking" pronunciation and the "soft-T."

Learn Songs Using the Teleprompter Player

Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)

Old Dan Tucker

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

Lean Songs Using My Vidoes on YouTube

Any Time
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Winter Season
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Darktown Strutters' Ball - Listen and Repeat, Then Sing Along (Video)

Jingle Bells - Listen and Repeat, Then Sing Along (Video)

New Year's Eve or at the End of Parties

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Auld Lang Syne - Sing Along (Video)

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Learn Songs Using the Flash Player

Most of these are excerpts from recordings that I did a many years ago.

Amazing Grace - A Well-known Hymn

Camptown Races

Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)

Little Liza Jane

Go Tell Aunt Rhody

When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Civil War Song

Old Joe Clark

The Banks of the Ohio

You Can't Get to Heaven

Old Abe Lincoln - Civil War Song

Cripple Creek

Uncle Joe - Square Dance Tune

Buffalo Gals

Are you going to ...?

This is not a traditional song. I wrote this one to help my students practice this sentence
pattern.

Complete Podcasts Converted to Flash

If you don't see the play button when you go to one of these pages, please reload the page and you
should be able to see the play button.
1. First, listen and repeat to learn the words and the melody.
2. Then sing the whole song.

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (1:16)

B-I-N-G-O (1:02)

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (1:05)

Let Me Call You Sweetheart (2:32)

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Swanee River (Old Folks at Home) (3:04)

The Noble Duke of York (1:41)

Oh When the Saints Go Marchin' In (1:21)

Previous Podcasts Split and Converted to Flash

The "listen and repeat" part and the "sing the whole song" part have been split into two files.

Auld Lang Syne

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Auld Lang Syne - Learn It (1:17)

Auld Lang Syne - Sing It (0:52)

Cluck Old Hen

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Cluck Old Hen - Learn It (0:57)

Cluck Old Hen - Sing It (0:58)

Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?

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Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey? - Learn It

Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey? - Sing It (0:45)

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