FunSongs on YouTube

YouTube is an incredible resource for teachers and students. FunSongs has uploaded a number of action song  videos with captions to show English teachers how best to teach and present the songs. You will find a Teaching Actions playlist on the  www.youtube.com/funsongs channel. At the time of uploading this post the following action songs could be viewed:

• Water is Everything
• Best for the World
• What's Your Favourite Sport?
• 65 Million Years Ago
• On Halloween
• The Monster March  

The packages for all these songs and many more are available for download on the FunSongs website. 

Emelie Loeb at Rome TESOL

FunSongs practitioner Emelie Loeb making  a point.

Emelie Loeb has been teaching other teachers how to use the FunSongs Method for almost three years.  She assisted  Charles Goodger at many workshops and conferences before he left Italy to promote FunSongs in other parts of Europe at the start of 2008, and together with Valentina D'Errico has continued to train teachers in the action song-based teaching method ever since.
At the recent TESOL-Italy teachers conference in Rome, Emelie was sponsored by FunSongs' sister organization CAIL - the Cultural Association for Interactive Learning. CAIL, whose headquarters are in Bologna, organizes shows, events and camps for young learners throughout Italy.

Unfortunately Emelie's slot at the two-day conference was at the end of the final day when many of the participants were leaving. Despite this, her workshop on interactive teaching methods drew a large crowd of over 35. Emelie completed her session by showing participants how to teach   I Love Christmas.

I Love Christmas and I Hate Christmas

Christmas is a magical time for kids so how about teaching your primary school classes I Love Christmas and working on its language? Kids love to perform this song which is far more useful linguistically than overused standards such as the difficult Jingle Bells. The original action song presents and teaches the vocabulary  English uses to describe several typical Christmas traditions. The song also alludes to the real meaning of the Christian festival. 
As a special bonus teachers who download the package, which contains nine graded worksheets, will also receive the words and music of  I Hate Christmas - an amusing parody that makes fun of the commercialisation of the festival.
Free samples of the I Love Christmas action song package can be downloaded from www.funsongs.co.uk/available