Ideas for songs to teach ESL topics - TeflTunes.com ESL and EFL teachers looking for inspiration to stimulate class discussions will find this list of songs to teach ESL topics we’ve compiled a useful resource. Highlighted are songs available as complete ESL song lesson plans here on tefltunes.com. Business & Money Songs about jobs & work Shania Twain / Not Just A Pretty Face (lyrics) Dolly Parton / Nine To Five (lyrics) The Kinks / Nine To Five (lyrics) Songs about wealth & poverty Travie McCoy / Billionaire (lyrics)Barenaked Ladies / If I Had $1,000,000 (lyrics) Gwen Stefani / Rich Girl (lyrics) Spin Doctors / Two Princes (lyrics) Culture & Customs Songs for Australia Day Midnight Oil / Beds Are Burning (lyrics) Men At Work / Land Down Under (lyrics) Songs for Christmas Bing Crosby / White Christmas (lyrics)Chris Rea / Driving Home For Christmas (lyrics) Songs for Halloween Michael Jackson / Thriller (lyrics) Sting / Moon Over Bourbon Street (lyrics) Songs for St Patrick’s Day U2 / Beautiful Day (lyrics) Johnny Cash / Galway Bay (lyrics) Education B.
TwitBacks ESL Printables: English worksheets, lesson plans and other resources What's your name? Introduction: For a listening lesson to be successful, the learners need to be engaged with the audio. It might not always be possible to motivate all the learners in the class to the same degree but the important thing is to use an audio which all of the learners can, in some way, relate to. If you are in a position where you can choose an audio, ask yourself ‘Will each and every one of the learners recognise this? Will they be able to say something about it? This month’s lesson mainly focuses on developing listening skills but other skills are integrated too, with opportunities for speaking, reading and writing. Topic: Names - an integrated skills lesson with the main focus on listening Aims: To develop students’ listening skills To engage students in a classroom discussion To encourage students to think about the cultural significance of names Age: Teenagers and young adults Level: A2-B2 Time: 60 minutes + Materials: 1. Access the audio here Introduction: Aims: Age: Teenagers and young adults
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Why Robot Humor Mostly Falls Flat Robots are increasingly being developed to think and act like humans. But one common human quality that has been difficult for engineers to recreate in machines is humor. Most robots are powered by artificial intelligence, or AI, and machine learning technology. Some have performed better than humans in tests designed to measure machine intelligence. For example, we have reported on experiments involving robots competing against humans in a reading test and in a live debate. Computer scientists have also hoped to give robots technical skills to help them recognize, process and react to humor. Context is everything Kiki Hempelmann is a computational language expert who studies humor at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Other experts who study the subject agree that context is very important to understanding humor – both for humans and for robots. Tristan Miller is a computer scientist and linguist at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. But a robot might not get the joke.