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Procedure:
Present the song to the learners first. You can use your own voice when presenting the song to your 
learners. However, if you think you are not a good singer, you can still use songs in your classrooms. 
You can play cassettes, instead, to help you present them to your students and follow along with the 
cassettes. Show facial expressions and body movements in line with the mood of the songs. For 
cheerful songs, show your delighted face and jovial body movement. For melancholic songs, use 
gloomy face and calm body movement. For young learners, however, try to use cheerful songs to 
keep them in high spirit.
Allow them to sing it along with you or the cassette. By singing together, the learners can try to 
pronounce the words, hence, it also helps them improve their pronunciation. Repeated it two or three 
times, and, finally, allow them to sing together with their fellow friends, but without you or the 
cassette.

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Practice them often in various occasions. For example, you might want to sing the same songs when 
you are at carpet time in the morning. You may want to sing the song every time that you line up to 
enter the classroom. Use these songs repeatedly in every occasions possible so that children are able 
to understand and remember the lyrics.
Some examples of songs that you may use would include number songs, and that can be 
numbers counting up or numbers counting down such as "Ten Monkeys Jumping on the Bed." One of 
favorite songs good for children is "Five Green and Speckled Frogs." This song helps students count 
backwards from five. Here is the Lyrics for song.
Five green and speckled frogs
sat on a speckled log
eating the most delicious bugs,
yum, yum.
One jumped into the pool
where it was nice and cool,
now there are four green speckled frogs,
glub, glub."
Adapted from: 
http://www.ehow.com/video_4952228_teach-english-kids-using-songs.html
 
After singing the song, you can ask students to count from four all the way down to zero. This 
really reinforces the skill of counting backwards from five down. When you use "Ten Silly Monkeys 
Jumping on the Bed," you help your students practice from ten down. There are many other songs to 
practice nearly everything in the classroom. One of the favorite songs is "the Adams Family." This 
song is used to help learners remember the days of the week. The lyrics is as follows:
Days of the week,
days of the week,
days of the week, 
days of the week,
days of the week.
There's Sunday, and there's Monday... 
there's Tuesday and there's Wednesday,
Thursday and then there's Friday
and then there's Saturday.
Days of the week."
Adapted from: 
http://www.ehow.com/video_4952228_teach-english-kids-using-songs.html
 
Young learners really love it. You can also encourage them to snap while singing the song. If 
they're not able to snap, which many young children aren't, they may clap along with the song. By 
singing the song, the young learners become excited about and they're able to remember the words. You 
can also create your own delightful song and be creative in inserting the words you want your students 
to learn.

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