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Music: Blanks

Choose a song that you think your students will like, or  survey them in a previous class on what kind of music they like so that you can prepare the appropriate material for  your class. Slower songs will be required for a beginner level, but the more upbeat the song the better. 
The song should reflect a subject that the students are learning at the time.  This activity works especially well with learning a new tense.  You can ask students to fill in the blanks with verbs and then rewrite them in the tense they are learning. For more advanced levels, you can ask the students to rewrite the whole sentence in the tense they are currently learning. 
This activity will test their ability to understand new words in a real-world context, while recalling previously-learnt sentence structures and spelling. For this, make sure that the song does not contain a lot of local slang and that the blanks the students are required to fill in follow a formal structure.  Slang can, however, be helpful in pointing out differences between, say, American and British vernacular. Also, it is likely to spark some lively conversation.  Play the song two or three times, and go through all the exercises.  It should take about 25 minutes to complete this activity. 

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