Songs and Chants

During this workshop, we learned how we can use songs and chants in our lessons. They can be used to get our students' attention, to make the class more dinamic, and more importantly, to practice the language and the contents we are teaching.

The first things I learned is that songs and chants are different. Chants are more repetitive, with few and similar sentences. Songs, on the other hand, have more complex phrases and melodies.

It is important for us to know the stage and the ages in which we are going to use a song or a chant, we need to think carefullty on how it will help our students.

Here are the two examples of songs that I shared with my classmates: