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com/ for educational purposes

Percussion Instruments
Musical Instruments

By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.

Head of Curriculum Development Senior Language Professor

Academic Department School of English
Centro Cultural Costarricense- Faculty of Social Sciences
Norteamericano Universidad Latina de Costa Rica

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Post 341 / Vocabulary 003

Students wanting to know more should be the norm in our classrooms,

and it is for that reason that we have to ensure they can develop their
vocabulary much more and way beyond their textbooks. A good way to make
some changes in a thematic unit that deals with music or musical instruments is
to have them work on percussion instruments, which is just a sub-variety of
instruments that can be used for the purpose of this exercise. Any other type of
musical instruments can also fit the purpose of having our learners practice the
language productively.
 Triangle Tambourine

Xylophone Marimba

Cymbals Hi-Hat

Most of us, if not all of us, wanted to play a musical instrument at some
point in our lives. So why not to take advantage of this prior knowledge to have
learners discuss creatively, inventively, and critically about instruments. And here
what I suggest is to have students compare instruments:

1) Compare and contrast the triangle and the tambourine.

2) Compare and contrast the xylophone and the marimba.
3) Compare and contrast the cymbals and the hi-hat.
4) Compare and contrast the triangle and the xylophone.
5) Compare and contrast the marimba and the cymbals.
 A second option is to have our learners write their own definitions and
descriptions of what a musical instrument is or looks like. Here you can have
them exercise their writing skills and play with the new vocabulary.

This is a metal instrument that is played

with wooden sticks, which are called Xylophone
mallets.
Tambourine
Hit-hat
Triangle
Marimba
Cymbals

Exercise CEFR rage A2

Bloom’s Taxonomy layer Understand: identify, describe
Analyze: compare, contrast

References

Images taken just for educational purposes from:

1) Triangle https://www.aliexpress.com/
2) Tambourine https://www.amazon.co.uk/
3) Xylophone https://www.amazon.co.uk/
4) Marimba https://www.thomann.de/
5) Cymbals https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/
6) Hi-Hat https://www.shutterstock.com/
7) Bloom’s taxonomy
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