- Prediction

- Picture discussion, finding pictures and illustrating the song.

- Key word discussion, presenting some key words and what the song is about.

- Snippets, playing few seconds of the song and asking students about the mood of the song.

- Listening for gist

- Picture selection, by showing students two or more alternative pictures, some magazine photos
maybe and ask them which of these best matches to the content of the lyrics.

- Note- taking; taking notes by students of the song of main characters or main event.

- Discourse-type recognition; indentify the kind of discourse in the song: is it a dialogue?, a narrative?
a monologue in somebody’s mind?

- Function recognition: Is the writer promising? warming? daydreaming? tale-telling? complaining?

inviting? requesting?

- Listening for detail

- Word- spotting: presenting some key words from the song and also some which are not in the lyrics.

- Gap filling: filling the gaps of the missing words.

- Error- finding: finding some error words or missing by students and listening and identifying these
errors.

- Sequencing: correcting the wrong order for example senetnces and puting them in the right order.

- Picture- sequencing: puting pictures with scenes from the lyric in the correct order.

- Picture differences: presenting pictures representing the lyrics, with some differences.

- Dictation: writing the words from the song by students.

- Questions

- True and false statements

- Grammar

- Tense-selecting: put the verbs in the brackets in an appropriate tense.

- Error-identifying: finding and correcting the mistakes in the lyrics.

- Transformation: transforming the sentences form passive to active, from direct to reported speech,
from masculine to feminine, from first person to third person, from affirmative to negative, from
present to past.

- Word-ordering: Giving students lines form the song with words in jumbled order.

- Vocabulary

- Text reconstruction: Erase all the words in the lyrics or part of it, and number each gap. Students
trying to reconstruct the text by saying the number and the word that they think goes in the each
gap.
- Lexical transformation: Convert the text with opposites e.g antonyms to synonyms.

- Search: Students search the text for lexically-related words, synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms,
meronyms

- Lexical gaps: Giving students a text with gaps, and ask them to fill these by looking at a context.

- Pronunciation

- Sound search: asking students to find examples of a given sound, or a rhyming words.

- Stress search: searching words with a given stress pattern.

- Script transformation: Some or all of the words given in phonetic script from the lyrics, and ask
students to convert these.

- Drilling: repeating certain parts of the lyrics to pracise pronunciation.

- Singing.