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of this lessons introduction is to take the pupils into the lesson and get them ready

for an interesting Christmas lesson taught by the Father Christmas.

To sum up: this thesis tries to make the lessons enjoyable and interesting

from the pupils very first sight and to make this first sight curious to hat ill

follo. C!"#$ "%!& '())*+ p. ,-mentions the role of curiosity in her book /))

!ctivities for the 0rimary Classroom: ...it is also important to arouse and maintain

childrens curiosity+ to generate a desire to learn and find out about things+ and to

make the act of learning interesting+ relevant and enjoyable in its on right.

II.2. The use of songs in teaching festivals

No one exactly knows why songs are powerful, but everyone knows from a

personal point of view that they are.2

#ne of the main focuses of this bachelor ork is the use of typical songs in

a language classroom+ especially songs connected to a certain festival: 1ongs

can be used in discussions of culture. They are a rich mine of information about

human relations+ ethics+ customs+ history+ humor+ and regional and cultural

differences.2

The songs here represent this rich mine and they tell the story about

a certain festival themselves. They also contain characteristic vocabulary and

theme.

There are many e3planations of a song+ e.g. according to the C!45"6&7%

&6CT6#8!"9are songs a usually short piece of music ith ords hich are

sung and according to the music teacher 4ag. 5runo 1eebacher from the

Catholic ;niversity College for %ducation 7ra< songs mean learning ithout

knoing. 1ongs in generalhelp students to develop all the linguistic skills = listening+ speaking+ riting and

reading and they are also a very good source for teaching %nglish especially

because:

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they are funny and amusing

they are highly motivating and memorable/

they are for all ages and levels of %nglish

the pupils learn unittingly the right pronunciation and vocabulary

they create a positive and arm atmosphere>

they can be ?uickly prepared.

4y e3perience is that songs are the most popular activity in a classroom

mainly because they are rela3ing and even the C!45"6&7% &6CT6#8!"9*

mentions this aspect: music is a pattern of sounds made by musical instruments+

singing or computers+ or a combination of these+ intended to give pleasure to

people listening to it.

1ongs in this thesis focus on a certain festival and cultural studies and each

song has some kind of connection to the hole lesson theme. There are also

suggested different kinds of activities to each song:

@;45$%& $9"6C1A= this activity practices the skill of listening itself. 6t

is advisable to use this game for longer songs ith more ords or for

songs that are ?uick or difficult to understand. 4;"0B%9 '())(+ p. *2-

*in his book 4usic and 1ong suggests: Choose a song, preferably one

with a narrative that tells a story= this choice helps the pupils because

if they do not understand the song+ they follo the story and it is

possible for them to match the strips+ but the pupils improve their

reading skills rather the listening ones. Boever+ the plus point of strips

is that the pupils do not have to focus on a particular ord and then miss

the rest of the song but they focus on the song as a hole. This activity

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can be used either in groups+ pairs or individually. 5ut it is advisable not

to use this activity individually because there can be a lot of strips 'e.g.

0eter Cottontail- and the pupils ill get pu