In the university English classes this week Craig and I had to teach grammatical verb tenses to our poor, unsuspecting students. They showed up for conversation class--in which we normally play games or facilitate group activities to promote speaking English to one another--to learn about grammar. If you can dig your way back through your primary school memories or if you have ever taught grammar, you know that it can be a dry subject.
This past week we covered the "present perfect continuous" verb tense (i.e. I have been living in Spain; I have been teaching English; I have been boring the heck out of my students). To make things more interesting and to wipe away the glazed look over our students eyes, we played a song that uses the present perfect continuous tense repetitively. And posted below is the song that we selected...
Before I can lovingly complain about this song and shift the blame over to Craig, I have to say that this song did achieve our goal and (most) classes got into the song, and I even had some dancers in mine. It added much needed comic relief to the class. I also genuinely believe the repetition of the verb tense helped them see how it is used.
With that said: this is Craig's song. Not mine.
London Beat - I've Been Thinking About Y
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And bear in mind that I had to listen to this literally ten times. Unfortunately I can sing along to every word. But at least it ended class with a smile. A bit of a disturbed smile. But a smile.
Guiri Guia (Foreigner's Guide): advice for an expat from an expat in Spain
1 comment:
How can you rag on this song? It's a classic! You should have already been able to sing every word!!! :) You've been away so long, you're forgetting about all the wonderful American 90's Songs... I think next week, you should play them an 80's song. Just an idea! :)
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