Laguage game (game for teaching English)

MISSING LYRICS

A.      Language                : Identifying the simple past tense in the lyrics

B.       Skills                      : Listening and writing

C.       Purpose                  :

1.      Students are able to improve their listening skill.

2.      Students are able to recognize and understand the simple past tense form of the sentence in the lyrics of the song.

3.      Students are able to understand the usefulness of simple past tense in daily life.

D.      Level                         : Senior High School

E.       Time                         : 15 minutes.

F.        Participants               : 6students / more

G.      Materials              : Taylor Swift’s song ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’, Laptop / mp3 player, speaker, lyric sheets, Board marker, Whiteboard.

H.      Procedure                  :

1)   Divide students into 2 groups / more consisting of 3 students.

2)   Share the lyric sheets in each group.

3)   Give instruction to students to fill in the missing lyrics of the lyric sheets in accordance with the song that will be played.

4)   Play the song!

5)   Repeat playing the song one more time if the students has not completed the task.

6)   Ask each group to swap their worksheets to other groups to be corrected and discuss the sentences together.

7)   The group that has the most correct answers is the winner.

lyric sheet

Once upon a time a few mistakes ago

(1)   _____________________ , (2) _________________________

(3)   _______________ , (4) _________________ , (5) __________________

I guess (6) __________________ , and I guess (7) __________________

And when (8) ________________ ,(9) _______________________

Without me, without me, without me

And he's long gone when he's next to me

And I realize the blame is on me

Cause (10) ________________________________ , when (11) __________________

So shame on me now

Flew me to places I've never been

'Til you put me down, oh

(12) __________________________ , when (13) ___________________________

So shame on me now

Flew me to places I've never been

Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground

Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble

Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble

No apologies, he'll never see you cry

Pretend he doesn't know, that he's the reason why

You're drowning, you're drowning, you're drowning

Now (14) _____________________________ from whispers on the street

A new notch in your belt is all I'll ever be

And now I see, now I see, now I see

He was long gone when (15) ______________

And I realize the joke is on me