Well I've been having some fun with Lyrics Training I followed the fantastic instructions given by Ana Maria Menenzes on her blog Lifefeast and was easily able to create my own song activity. But I encountered a problem the song I chose I don't wanna talk about it by Rod Stewart some of the sentences were too long which meant that the last word of the previous sentence was hidden underneath the next sentence. I contacted Lyrics Training to ask how I rectified this and they got back to me very promptly and said I had to press ctrl ins to insert an extra line for the extra words. However after millions of attempts I could not get my computer to do this. So in the end I copied and pasted the lyrics on to a word document and then adjusted them so the extra words were on a line of their own. Then I pasted the lyrics on to the source part of Lryics Training. Bob's ya uncle it worked! Phew!
I created this particular song for a private student of mine who said he really likes this song. What I'm planning to do now is set this as a homework activity for my general English groups. I will set them the instructions via edmodo of how to create their own song activity and then they have to share it to their group via edmodo.
This site is wonderful, some stsof mine have become addicted to it.
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