Songs 1

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Welcome!

After today:

- You will have read!

- You can talk about your own life using the zero conditional.

- You will have worked out how get sarted with writing a song.

Lesson series:

Songs. Goal: work on expression and experimentation. Why? It's super helpful for developing your English skills.

Reading - leasure

- Rihanna

- Dutch dancing sisters

- Britney Spears/Selena Gomez

- Britain's got talent

- Ed Sheeran

- Billie Eilish

or: your own music realted text

Grammar song

- Follow the link

- Scroll down until you see the lyrics

- Listen to the song and fill in the words

Link

Zero conditional 

1. If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads

2. When the sun shines, they slip into the shade 

3. When the sun shines, they sip their
lemonade

4. If i get to work on time, no one has to wait for me

5. If he sings, everyone listens in awe

6. When water gets to a 100 degrees, it .....

Write down the verbs of these sentences

op conditie dat/omstandigheden

for sentences 1 - 6 give (all) the verbs

op conditie dat/omstandigheden

If I go to bed late, I.....

When he works, he ....

Exercise

- You get a piece of paper with part of a sentence on it

- Get up and find a partner

- You say the sentence and finish it

- Your partner does the same

- Swap papers and find someone new

- Repeat!

If I.... When I.... When it.... When....

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Song Writing

- You will write your own lyrics to an existing song. 

- First watch the video with tips on how to write lyrics

- Which five tips does the guy give?

- Which common themes does he list, which one speaks to you the most? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXv4KVduKjw

1. Which five tips does the guy give?
2. Which common themes does he list, which one speaks to you the most?

Bell

give

convince

cold

Pattern

Write your own!

- Choose a song you like

- Write your own words for it

- This can be with the same theme or something completely different

- Today: 1 verse + chorus

- Think of the theme.

- Think about what you want to tell, then divide that up between the verses and the chorus.

- Think about rhyming

op conditie dat/omstandigheden

1. What else do you want to know about song writing?
2. Make a factual (!) sentence using if or when.