Singing is a crucial way of improving not only phonetically when it comes to learning a new foreign language, but it is also a very fun way to acquire grammar in a natural and spontaneous way. In Primary Spanish, we are currently learning about the farm animals and the food and products we obtain out of it.
It is exciting for the students to link all the vocabulary they have previously learnt with more practical activities like reading comics about farming, and how to cook their own breakfast with the products we obtain from those farm animals. But without any doubt what they enjoy the most is singing and dancing to the lyrics of the different Spanish songs.
It is wonderful to see the students eager to use the language they have learnt to guide the classroom for their own benefit. The students take active part in their personalised Spanish tuition either to win more points for the class competition or just to show they can build up longer sentences in Spanish.
As a result, they are not only learning Spanish, but the importance of origin of food, where does it come from and how it is made for us to enjoy it . All in all, what is more important is that they are learning to say what truly matters to them, what they really want to express or show off. As a Spanish teacher I love to encourage all my students to achieve this intrinsic motivation to speak about their own life and their own universe, because it is the best way they have to express their emotions, also to feel listened to and cared for, to see their magnificent world through their eyes is to understand them and guide them better to achieve their full potential.
