The importance of music in different cultures
Overview
Objective: The importance of music in different cultures
Level of culture: All 3 levels of culture
Skills: Speaking and Listening
1. The teacher chooses different countries (including , for instance, Armenia, the UK,
and the USA) and plays three different pieces of music.
2. The class is divided in three groups, and each one selects a country.
3. The students gather information, listen carefully to every piece, write down the pecularities of music and do the research about the musical traditions in countries. They can use computer, audio-visual materials to do the research.
4. Finally, the students show the presentation before the class and discuss the questions asked by the classmates.
Here we have got all three levels of culture included into the process. The students; show their own culture by presenting the source culture, then comes the target culture (the UK musical traditions) and then comes the international culture bringnig international interaction.
I made this activity an OER, by marking it “CC BY 4.0” and, thus allowing you to “reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute it “.
The importance of music in different cultures
Objective: The importance of music in different cultures
Level of culture: All 3 levels of culture
Skills: Speaking and Listening
1. The teacher chooses different countries (including , for instance, Armenia, the UK,
and the USA) and plays three different pieces of music.
2. The class is divided in three groups, and each one selects a country.
3. The students gather information, listen carefully to every piece, write down the pecularities of music and do the research about the musical traditions in countries. They can use computer, audio-visual materials to do the research.
4. Finally, the students show the presentation before the class and discuss the questions asked by the classmates.
Here we have got all three levels of culture included into the process. The students; show their own culture by presenting the source culture, then comes the target culture (the UK musical traditions) and then comes the international culture bringnig international interaction.
I made this activity an OER, by marking it “CC BY 4.0” and, thus allowing you to “reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute it “.