🧩❓🗣Music border speaking activity
MUSIC BORDERS
What are the number 1 songs around the world today? Well, Music Borders maps number 1 songs in over 3,000 places around the world.
Are you ready to use these songs for a cool oral activity to compare and contrast?
Source: onthesamepageelt
What is Music borders?
The sheer experience of visiting different continents and countries and listening to whatever is popular at the moment has obvious cross-curricular and interdisciplinary implications per se — probably not something we usually do, and I’m sure this largely depends on where in the world you live.
How to play
Listen to 2 songs
Document and then Compare & Contrast your 2 songs using the below template.
Choose two different continents and countries and listen to the songs. As you listen, complete this fact sheet on paper about each song:
Song title:
Singer/Band:
Country:
Continent:
Language:
Description:
When you finish documenting the two songs. Prepare a short presentation comparing and contrasting your two songs using the following adjectives:
loud
catchy
interesting
good
original
strange
happy
sad
beautiful
slow
bad
unusual
unique
boring
repetitive
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Source
Onthesamepage ELT