Music surrounds our lives, whether in the car, supermarket or personal listening devices. Today's suggestions are a brief reminder of a couple of music related sites which are great to introduce to brighten up any winter class.
MusicPopQuiz offers players a choice of musical genres ranging from pop to jazz, indie to folk music. Once you select the genre, you have a choice of 2 questions (as in the example on the left); you will hear the song and then need to decide who performed it. You can also see it that there are different levels to the quizzes.
This is a fun site either to use as a follow-up to a lesson on music or set up as a pair activity in a class, to see which pair of students get the highest score.
Tune into English offers a different section for teachers and students, each tailored with worksheets, games and quizzes.
LyricsTraining is another site where ESL/EFL learners can access to further their vocabulary and listening skills with 3 different levels of gap-fill activities usually included for each song. You can use the advanced menu to selected which genre you want and there is also a selection for Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and German. When you sign up, you will also have the option of uploading and sharing your own favourite songs with gap-fill activities.
Still for ESL/EFL there is, Agenda Web, which offers songs and videos with more exercises to practice English, while Lyricgaps is another option.
Nat Geo Music is a great place to find out more about world music, while American Sabor teaches us more about the influence/role of Latin music in America. As with other Smithsonian sites, there is support for teachers with a page dedicated to classroom activities.
Still for ESL/EFL there is, Agenda Web, which offers songs and videos with more exercises to practice English, while Lyricgaps is another option.
Nat Geo Music is a great place to find out more about world music, while American Sabor teaches us more about the influence/role of Latin music in America. As with other Smithsonian sites, there is support for teachers with a page dedicated to classroom activities.
Incredibox gives learners the opportunity to play around with beats and rhythms; definitely a fun site to visit at the end of a week or close to holidays.
Adding music and sounds to digital stories is also possible, and here are some sites which help learners find the sounds they need to add to their presentations:
Legal Music for Videos
CC Mixter - A Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up or interact with music in any way you want to.
Soungle - a search engine for sound effects
Moof - social music network
Stock Music Boutique
Music History Websites - a rich resources for who is interested in music
Tribe of Noise - a music community
Lights - an interactive music experience
What are your favourites sites for music?