Activities to explore and exploit songs and jazz chants

The Jigsaw strategy

• asks a group of students to become “experts” on a specific text or body of knowledge

• asks a group of students to share the material they have been tasked with to another group of students.

• offers a way to help students understand and retain information

• develops students' collaboration skills

A jigsaw listening

• learners hear or read different parts of a text,

• Learners make sense of the information on their own

• Learners exchange information with others

• an information gap exercise

Jigsaw strategy

• helps students' focused

• makes students dependant on each other

• developes collaboration

• can be used for all language skills

Learners in three groups hear different versions of an encounter with aliens. Together with other learners, they complete comprehension questions based on all three descriptions of the encounter.

The activity is...

Jazz chants can only be used to teach syllables and vocabulary.

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In completing Jigsaw tasks

• learners read or listen to a text

• learners integrate the language skills

• learners speak and listen to others

• learners reconstruct the information in the text

• learners cannot work independently

cloze activities on song lyrics need you to

• choose the right grammatical items

• choose the right vocabulary

• choose the right word from a list

• listen attentively