CARDIGAN​ - TAYLOR SWIFT

SONG ACTIVITY + SONG-BASED

LESSON PLAN FOR ELT

WELCOME​!
You love ​MUSIC ​and you know the power songs have to
MOTIVATE ​students.
You also know that it takes ​TIME ​to find a good (and ​NEW​) song
and prepare an activity​ to meet your needs.
Here you will find fun ​IDEAS​, practical ​STEP-BY-STEP LESSON
PLANS​ and
useful ​RESOURCE MATERIALS ​that​ ​SAVE ​you time (and
HEADACHES​)​.
I hope that you and your students have fun with this lesson plan!!

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Description​:

This song-based activity ​STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN​ for ​ENGLISH​ language ​TEACHING
features the lyrics and music video for “​CARDIGAN​” by TAYLOR SWIFT. Students ​PLAY​ a hangman
game with a phrase or ​TALK ​about a quote from the lyrics, ​WATCH ​a vocabulary video with words
and phrases from the song, ​MAKE ​sentences using the new vocabulary about pictures, ​SPECULATE
on the music genre based on a word cloud, do a ​JIGSAW VIEWING ​with the music video, ​WRITE ​a
short narrative about the video, ​READ ​other students’ narratives in a collaborative Google Doc, and
DO​ a listening exercise with an interactive worksheet..

OBS​: OBS: This lesson plan was made to be used for ​ONLINE TEACHING​, but it can be modified for
face-to-face instruction, as well.

Language level:​ B1 and above

Learner type​: All ages
Skills​: speaking, reading, listening and writing
Topic​: dating & relationships
Language/grammar​: narrative sequencing, agreement/disagreement
Materials​: Youtube videos (music video and ​vocabulary video​), google slides, collaborative google
doc and interactive worksheet.
Duration​: 1 hour or so
Downloadable materials​: instructions; ​google slides​; ​collaborative google doc​ (for you to make a
copy)

STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN

Step 1 (5 min)
OPTION 1:​ Play hangman with the phrase “I LOVE MUSIC”
OPTION 2:​ Show the following quote from the lyrics and ask students if they agree/disagree and why.
“When you are young, they assume you know nothing”

Step 2 (3 min)
Tell your students that you’re going to work with a new song, but first, you are going to play a video
with some vocabulary from the song.
Play the vocabulary video 2x
https://youtu.be/IkLQUtY3PG0

Words and phrases on the video;​ vintage tee - high heels on cobblestones -sequin
Cardigan - playing hide-and-seek -the high Line -scars - haunt

Step 3 (5 min)
Show slide 1 with the words and the pictures.

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Students make sentences connecting the words and the pictures, and send them via chat box. Tell
them to make crazy connections!

Step 4 (5 min)
Show the slide with the word cloud.
Have students say if they can identify which song you are going to work with.
Ask them to say what kind of song they think it is based on the words

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Step 5 (7 min)
Jigsaw viewing
Divide the class into two groups, A and B. Group A stays in the main room with you to watch the
music video.
Group B goes to the breakout room and waits.
Tell Group A to pay careful attention to the music video because they are going to retell the story to
the others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-a8s8OLBSE

Step 6 (12 min)

Group B comes back to the main room.
Now pair students from each group: StudentA+ Student B in breakout rooms. Student A retells the
story from the video to student B who types it on the notepad or word doc. Give them a time limit of
10 min for the task.

Step 7 (10 min)

Back to the main room, share the link to the collaborative google doc with the designated spaces for
the pairs to paste their texts.

Students read all the narratives. Highlight the mistakes, but do not correct them now. Assign the
correction for Homework.

Step 8 (5 min)
Play the video again for everyone, so students from group B can see the video too.
Have some students compare their narratives with the real video.

Step 9 (10 min)

Share the link to the ​interactive worksheet​. Students listen to the song and fill the gaps.
answers
1- smile 2- better 3- favorite 4- girls 5- twenty 6 - stars 7- train 8- change 9- kiss 10 - time

That’s it for this week! I hope this activity is helpful and

enjoyable!

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