Most people like many different kinds of music. Studies have shown that music There are a variety of different ways to use music in the classroom. Some teachers prefer to use background music and others use music lyrics as the basis of a lesson.
Music can be used to:. Many teachers try using music once in the class, but forget to do it again. It might take a few times before you and your class get used to hearing music while learning. If you can commit to using music once a week, you may soon see the benefits, and realize that you want to do it more often and in a variety of ways. Here are 10 activities for you to try:. Using music with ESL kids has all of the same benefits mentioned above and more.
Children are natural music lovers. You don't have to convince them that it will help them learn. If you feel uncomfortable singing in front of the class to teach a song, use an audio player. Don't expect your students to sing if you don't. Remember, that they don't care about the quality of your singing voice, just like you don't care about theirs.
Here are some suggested activities to use with kids If you are not familiar with any of the songs mentioned, simply put the titles into an online search :. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Benefits of using Music Have you ever heard of anyone who doesn't like music?
Until you lose your fear of death, you won't get anywhere. Twitchy5 on March 19, Deadink Don't we all have those days? But, on the upside, it's good to know that even such a melancholy tune can be catchy when you need it to be?
My Interpretation "All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces" Everyday he sees the same things, and the same people and he is realizing life has become a constant, daily chore. Look right through me, look right through me" He asks the teacher a question but she just "looks right through him" because he is just another member of the class and isn't important as an individual.
So it's all just about being a number and unimportant and repeating the same day over and over again but still not getting anywhere. Ahh this song makes me cry, I can't listen to it. Nice analyse. General Comment I love this song, and I've put alot fo thought into it. The first part lines are about a funeral. He is sitting at the funeral, and he sees the familiar faces of friends and relatives. The reference to filling glasses with tears is not talking about drinking glasses, but rather they are crieing and getting tears all over their eye glasses.
The blank expressions show that it is a solemn event, and the guy is clearly sad by wanting to hide his sorrows. He wants to be string and hide it, but he feels very strong emotions. The chorus, about his dreams, reveals the confusion going on in his head.
He doesn't know how to feel in his time of despair. When the song talks about children waiting for the day they're happy, I think he is talking about himself. Either he is a child, or he is comparing himself to a child waiting for his birthday.
The "sit and listen" part is , in the child metaphor, about how kids are made to behave. From older person perspective, he feels like he's being told how to feel by the people around him, but really he wants to feel his own way. I think that the lines about going to school once again bring up the child metaphor.
Children literally do go to school and talk to teachers, but I think it really means that "going to school" is returning to life after the loss of a loved one. He feels awkward, and unsure of himself, and people always would offer their condolences and pity him, which actually makes him feel alienated. He doesn't want any special treatment. He wants God, or whoever can help him to "look right through him" and understand how he feels, because, as I said before, he feels alienated.
The sing finishes with another chorus. I find it a bit hard o interpret, but, as I said before, it reveals his confusion and mixed emotions. When the lyrics talking about running in circles, I think it could be referring to the "circle of life", but I'm really not sure.
There'er my thoughts, enjoy! I think the first four lines of that verse really tell it all. The first part of that verse really says that every child read: every person should be able to feel safe and happy and wanted happy birthday: on your birthday you are the centre of attention.
I think the part about "Look right through me, look right through me" tells shows that he isn't getting the help he needs for feeling alienated. I think that in simple and casual situations, such as the classroom, he is being ignored, even though this seems to be his time of need.
This especially makes sense if you take the funeral interpretation, because I see it as though he has just lost one or both of his parents. While other children wait for their birthdays because they know they will be extra happy and recieve extra attention, I think this person is so low that he is simply waiting for an average day to feel average again. He doesn't need or want extra hype as the other kids do on their birthdays- he just wants to rise from his slump and feel normal again after his loss.
Your being way too literal most of the song is metaphorical and its definatly about existance. Maikerukun on August 31, Not exactly my interpretation, but pretty close! Your view of the song is very interesting, and it's just has possible. While sometimes a little literal about the lyrics, it's wise just the same.
That's a very insightful idea on what this song means I agree with maniacle on what the second verse could mean. I don't think you're being too literal, and when I first heard this song that it kind of the idea that came to my head. Verloren on November 10, That's why i came to this site to see what others have to say about it. I don't think this has to do with a funeral at all. This isn't a temporary feeling he's having at the moment of a funereal This is his depressed perception of the world the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
So the best dreams of his entire life were about dying. This is a life perception. Song Meaning The speaker is obviously viewing the world as an outsider. The first and final stanzas mainly discuss how everyone in the world seems so shut out of life itself as they are going through it with "worn out faces" with "no expression. The second stanza is about his feelings for this mad world, which he does not wish to continue being a part of, if you would even consider him a part of it in the first place.
Again, he sees these people just running around in circles, with nothing truly reached in the end. The birthday and school references in the third stanza are examples as to how people are phased out and are no longer "living" and are instead just going through the motions. Every child just waits until they get to feel special for their birthday which is a very dark concept as it implies children do not very often feel as though they are special, or are highly valued, until it is their special day to be.
Just as children do not feel special, the adults do not treat them as special. His teacher would look straight through him, as instead of getting to know his student, he runs through the motions as he would any regular student, rather than creating any bond between him as the teacher and the speaker as a student.
The speaker is very obviously stating that there is something wrong with how people are living and that they are not truly reaching any valuable goals.
I believe this could be interpreted in many different ways and this is also why this song is so great; people can form connections to the song with very different interpretations of it. One example that I believe fits best is that the speaker is speaking of the corporate world. Everyone is "racing" to get to the top, be the richest, and earn the most money. The speaker would perceive this as a mad world as money is completely extrinsic and does not help you achieve anything intrinsically meaningful.
We could then see the teacher's lack of enthusiasm to help the speaker as a child as a very fitting topic to include in the lyrics because the teacher only wants money, and does not wish to go out of his way to help unless it will earn him more money.
Then we could also acknowledge the bit about children not feeling so special until their birthdays as an effect of the greed of the adults who are too busy working to get money to make their children feel truly special, but attempt to make them feel better by buying them things instead.
I have only presented one possible interpretation that makes sense to me and throughout these comments you may find many more that are just as viable. Get hot Teachers Tell Me lyrics at Lyrics. Can you tell me if I'm right or wrong? Teacher, teacher, can you reach me? I wanna know what's goin' on, all right. No one knew me, no one knew me Hello teacher tell me, what's my lesson? Look right through me, look right through me.
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Please teacher tell me why, yeah Why are there boundaries So please oh please teacher tell me why, yeah Why are there boundaries Asked my daddy, but he couldn't tell me.
Gary Jules - Mad World Lyrics It's a very, very mad world, mad world Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday And I feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, sit and listen Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me, look right through me And I I find it hard to tell you 'Cause I find it hard to take When people run in circles it's a very very Mad world No one knew me No one knew me Hello, teacher, tell me what's my lesson?
Collective Soul - Shine Lyrics Teach me how to share. Teach me where to go, Tell me will love be there? Love be there? Whoa, heaven let your light shine down [4x] Give me a word, Give me a sign. Show me where to look, Gorillaz - Let Me Out Lyrics Tell me that they'll listen if it's lessons that I teach Tell me there's a heaven in the sky where there is peace But until then, I keep my piece in arm's reach.
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