Today I tried my Hello, Bonjour! activity on a group of students that are generally less proficient. There are also a couple in the class who are decidedly unmotivated...but today I had everyone sit in a circle, and we read through the lyrics of a song I had prepared to have blanks where the articles (a/an/the) should be. They were not familiar with the song at all but they did very well with predictions! Then we listened to the song, which has a fun, upbeat, reggae beat. They read along with the lyrics and asked to hear it again when it was over. : )
This lesson worked well, I think, because I first elicited from the students what they already knew about the grammar that we learned in the last class, then I raised their awareness to the importance of listening to the first sound of a word to determine the indefinite article, then we went through the lyrics bit by bit and talked about the reasons why we choose a instead of the, or vice versa. And the fact that the chorus says "Hola, Hola" helped too! But I am glad they liked it, and it actually got them asking other, more global questions. Like, one student asked me, "Teacher, why in the lyrics of songs they don´t follow the rules?"
That´s the kind of discovery that you hope for as a teacher!
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