July 1st

* Check each other's music reviews and make comments. 
Do you know this album? 
-- If yes, do you agree with the classmate's review? Why? 
-- If not, are you interested? Why

* Review for quiz. Next week, there will be a review quiz for movie, music, and technology.

* Make audio presentation

1. Choose one of your three reviews
2. Sign up at Prezi
3. Click new prezi and choose the design
4. Add at least 3 Frames
   - Background (plot summary, product basics, album description)
   - Good Points
   - Weak Points
5. Copy & paste your review into the needed place
6. Only add key words! 
The design is attractive and sleek, even though my model is outdated. 
 >> Attractive, sleek, but outdated
7. Insert at least 1 image
8. Record an audio file for each frame
  - Use the computer audio recorder to record what you wrote before
  - Save the audio file to your computer
  - In Prezi, click on the number of the frame and click Insert > Add Voice-over 
 9. Share
   - Click Share Prezi > Make Public
   - Exit
   - Click Embed, and copy
   - On your blog, change to HTML and paste
   - Save on your blog

Music (class 3)

Check each other's blogs about Western music artists/groups. 
Make some comments. Do you know this artist/group? If so, do you like them? If you don't know them, are you interested?


Album Review (Graded project - due next week)

Choose a music artist or group.  Write a review of one album by the artist (first write on Microsoft Word to check spelling and grammar)
  >> give background about the group and album

  >> explain the album style and quality (be critical: say good and bad things)
  >> include 2+ vocabulary words we studied

Studying English through Lyrics

Studying a song (class activity, not a grade project)

1. First choose a song: LyricsTraining

* Songs with interesting lyrics: 
Note: These are links are to YouTube (YT) and LyricsTraining (LT)

 Pop:  Ironic: (YT) (LT) / Luka (YT) (LT) / Man in the Mirror (YT)  (LT)
 Folk/Pop: Fast Car (YT) (LT)
 Hip hop: The Best Day (YT)  (not on LT) / Same Love (YT) (LT)

* Or, you can choose another song (search YouTube or google.com: "(song name) lyrics".)

2. Listen and enjoy.

3. Focus on the lyrics:

- Play the game on LyricsTraining?
- Look up difficult words or slang

- Focus on the chorus for the main point (you don't need to understand the whole song)

On your blog, write:
1. The artist & song title.

2. The main message or theme of the song

3. Your feelings

- Are the lyrics deep, shallow, romantic, depressing, poetic, etc.?

- Do you agree with the song's message?

4. Note 2-3 vocabulary words or phrases. (Write the word and the meaning).

5. You can post the YouTube video (optional).

EXPLORE A WESTERN MUSIC GROUP OR ARTIST

1. Choose one western musician or group that you DON'T know.

2. Search the web & find the following things some key information

Search & explore:

-Last.fm (summary and shouts)

-YouTube.com

-Wikipedia or Simple English Wikipedia

Find SOME of the following:

-Background information (hometown, history, key members, instruments)

-Musical style (genre and their "sound")

-Key albums or hit songs

-Lyrics: themes & lyrical style

-Other (fashion style, dance, influences or similar artists, etc.)

3. Write a short paragraph of 4-5 sentences.

-Try to use at least 2 vocabulary words.

-Do not copy from the internet. If you do, use quotations and say where you got the information.

4. Post a picture of the musician or group and/or embed a video from YouTube

Music Day 2 (July 17th)

Project due in two weeks:
1. Choose a music artist or group.  Write a review of one album by the artist (first write on Microsoft Word to check spelling & grammar)
  >> give back ground about the group and album

  >> explain the album style and quality (be critical: say good and bad things)
  >> include 2+ vocabulary words we studied

Reading about music #1: Guess the Japanese artist/group

Reading about music #2: Research about a western music artist/group

(later, refresh the page to see it.)

Review Tech, Start Music Unit (June 10th)

1. Check the Tech Review of Classmates

- Read the reviews by students in your group & make comments.

Do you have this?  If so, do you agree with the review?  If not, do you want it? Explain.


2. Starting the music unit.

Write 4+ sentences about music.  What kind do you like? Who is your favorite singer/group? Describe them. Do you often go to concerts? How do you listen to music? etc.

3. Music survey 

4. Music vocabulary

5. Listening
a. ELLLO
  * Six people talk about their musical tastes: who are you most like?
 * People talk about bands they like: Easy - Pretty Easy - Medium - Medium 2
b. English Central Music

Also, in 3 weeks, we will share a album review, so think about what album you want to write about.

Reading User Reviews

Link: Amazon Kindle Tablet 

Kickstarter: 3 cool products being developed

1. Review the assignment, due next week!

2. New products being developed

iFind link (in new tab)   MagicPhoneLink       Clever Pet Link