APRENDIENDO CON SONGS

Choosing good songs for learning

The best learning happens when we have fun. So it’s really important to choose music that your child likes. The best songs for learning English are:

• not too long (1–3 verses)
• not too fast (easy to sing along)
• in everyday English (not too many new or difficult words)
• clear (you can easily hear all the words).

Learning tip for 5–12 year olds
Choose songs with lots of rhyming words and rhythms that repeat. This makes it easier for children to learn new words and start singing along.

The Sing and Learn videos from Cambridge Assessment English are an ideal way to learn, remember and use new language.

Your child could also try singing along to nursery rhymes. They can practise lots of different vocabulary. For example: numbers (‘Ten in the bed’), animals (‘Old MacDonald had a farm’), colours (‘I can sing a rainbow’), weather (‘Incy wincy spider’), vehicles (‘The wheels on the bus’), left and right (‘You put your right mitten in’), actions (‘If you’re happy and you know it’), materials (‘This is the way we lay the bricks’).

RESOURCE: CAMBRIDGE link here