Supported by: Government of Indonesia (GoI) and Islamic Development Bank (idb)

 
Activity 4: Listen and Stand up
(adapted from LAPIS-ELTIS, 2008b) 
• Select a piece of song that contains repetitive words. As an example, you can use ‘Hello & Goodbye’ 
song.
• Divide the class up into ‘hellos’ & ‘goodbyes.’ You can assign the women are all ‘hellos’ and the 
men are all ‘goodbyes’
What do you think about the activity? Can you apply it in your classroom?
What adaptation you need to make to suit your class?

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• Tell them that when you play the song every time the women hear the word ‘hello’ they must stand 
up and sit down again. Every time the men hear the word ‘goodbye’ they should do the same. 
 
 
 
 
 
Possible Variations 
 Instead of standing up, students can also just raise their hand when hearing the targeted words. 
 
 Using Songs as the Main Activities 
 
1. Lead in: Discussion Questions

 
Before using the song to teach your language points, you need a ‘lead in’ activity. If you use 
Maher Zain’s song ‘Hold My Hand,’ for example, you can start it by asking the students the 
following questions: 
• What happens to the US and Al Qaidah? 
• Is it good? 
• What you expect to happen? 
• What is your suggestion to the US and Al Qaidah? 
Do the discussion quickly for about ten minutes. After finishing this discussion, relate the 
discussions with the song. 
2. Ordering Sentences 
• Prepare cuts up by printing two verses of the song in big font and cut sentence by sentence.
• Give out cuts up to students and ask them to work in group.
• Before listening, ask students to put the sentences into a possible order.
• Listen to the song and check answer 
• Give out copy of correct version