Here’s a sweet song to sing with your young kids. Shake It, by Jono
Category Archives: Music
Thinking Out Loud
If you “think out loud“, you speak what you are thinking. If you sing out loud, you will improve your pronunciation.
The lyrics: Continue reading
Feel-Good Songs
For the Oscars this year (the movie academy awards), one of the movies nominated for best picture was Bohemian Rhapsody – about the rock band Queen.
A few years ago, there was a scientific study in England to find songs that made people feel good. The study chose a song by Queen as the #1 feel-good song – Don’t Stop Me Now
Other top feel-good songs included: Abba’s Dancing Queen, the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations, and Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl
A Pronunciation Challenge
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is the name of a lake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, near Connecticut. It is also known as Webster Lake. The 45-letter name is the longest name for a place in the United States and 6th longest in the world.
Here’s a video about the lake, and – can you believe that someone wrote a song about it?
Merry Christmas
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!
Learn parts of the body and have fun with your young children. Watch this video with your child and do the song with them:
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes.
— Thanks to Judy for this article —
Thinking Out Loud
If you “think out loud“, you speak what you are thinking. If you sing out loud, you will improve your pronunciation.
The lyrics: Continue reading
Sing Along with some Old Songs
Singing along with music is a very good way to practice your English pronunciation. Here is a large collection of songs on a website called esl-bits.net. Many of the songs are slow, and easy to sing with. Each song has a separate page, with the music and words (lyrics), so that you can listen and sing too.
Note: On some smartphones, you may have to close the music window so you can see the words.