Music, Songs, & Instruments – Materials, Vocabulary, Activities, & Discussion Questions

Materials

Readings

• The Relationship between Music and Science
• Music and the Brain: What Happens When You’re Listening to Music
• Why does music evoke memories? – BBC Culture

Videos

• Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music | TED Talk 
• Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time | TED Talk
• Vincent Moon and Naná Vasconcelos: Hidden music rituals around the world | TED Talk  
• Vincent Moon and Naná Vasconcelos: Hidden music rituals around the world | TED Talk 
• The Scientific Power of Music 
• POP CULTURE: Why Music Works
• The Physics of Music: Crash Course Physics #19

Activities

Quizzes

• • Art & Music Vocab Quiz  
  • Musical Instrument Hangman
  • Musical Definitions Quiz

Song Show and tell

Choose a couple of songs you’d like to talk about. Please choose at least one English song. These can be popular songs that have special meaning to you or lesser-known songs you’d like to introduce.

Some useful sites: 

• • Genius.com
  • Songfacts.com
    

Lyrics Training Gap Fill Activities

• • Sugar (Maroon 5)
  • Drivers License (Olivia Rodrigo)
  • Let it Go
  • Dynamite (BTS)
  • It’s My Life (by Bon Jovi)
  • Yesterday (The Beatles)
  • More Than Words
  • Shape of You
  • My Way (Sinatra)

Online Karaoke

• • Karafun.com
    • What a Wonderful World
    • Let It Be
    • My Way
  • Smule.com

Vocabulary

• 30 Useful Music Idioms, Sayings and Phrases in English
• List of Music Terms | Vocabulary | EnglishClub
• List of 50 Popular Musical Instruments – Visual Dictionary
• Music Vocab Quizlet Set
• Music Vocab Quizlet Set (Korean translations)

Discussion Question

1. How would you describe your musical tastes?
   What are your favorite types of music? What kind of music don’t you like?
2. What role does music play in your life?
3. Who was the first musician or musical group that you remember liking?
4. Who were your favorite musicians or songs in… elementary school? high school? university?
5. Were you ever a member of a fan club?
6. Are there any songs that make you think of specific memories?
7. Which three songs did you listen to most in the past month?
8. When was the last time you purchased a piece of music? a physical music storage device (e.g. CD, album, cassette tape)?
9. How are your musical tastes different from your parents, partner, friends, and/or children?
10. Do you enjoy live music and going to concerts? What was the best concert you ever went to?
11. What was the most recent concert you went to?
12. What is your favorite music video?
13. Do you like to go to song rooms? What is your favorite song to sing (18 번)?
14. How do you feel about…. classical music, heavy metal, hiphop, Kpop, musicals?
15. What are your favorite songs or musicians when…
    …you are exercising
    …you are depressed
    …when you are angry
    …when you are working or studying
16. Which musical instruments can you play? How often did you/do you play?

 

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