Lyricstraning: funny website for listening task

LyricsTraining is a funny and easy website where visitors can watch the music videos and type the lyrics of the songs as games. You can also choose difficulties of the games according to your English level.

Step1: Choose a video as you like

Step2: Choose the level of the game

Step3: Begin to play the game:

you may watch the video and listen to the song. Some words is missing from the whole lyrics and you need to fill them in the blank. if you cannot catch it, you can just press the UP and DOWN button in the computer keyboard to move the sound to the lyrics you want to hear again or  simply click 'select language' which can translate the English lyrics into the language you choose so that you can have the hint to complete the whole lyrics. The button of 'Withdraw' will show you the whole lyrics without the blank.


Value

• interesting games with popular songs that motivate students to be engaged in. 
• listening dictation activities for improving students' listening skills.
• Different choices of levels help the practicing go ahead step by step. 
• Authentic materials 
• improving 'guessing' ability of listening skill. students grasp the missing word base on understanding the whole sentence. 

Usage

• listening activities: warming-up activity, dictation. Teacher can play the whole song to the class can ask the students to grasp the gist of the song. After discussion, they will play the games and focus on the specific information by themselves. 
• vocabulary: teacher choose a song that includes range of vocabularies that learners needs to be learned. After learners have learnt these vocabularies, they are required to play the game on the song that teacher has been chosen. It is a kind of exercises of vocabulary review which not only focus on the pronunciation but on the meaning and usage. 

Limitation:

• It is time-consuming for teachers to find the most suitable song for the target student. Possibly a detailed category is necessary. 
• teachers can hardly monitor learners' behavior since students can use 'withdraw' button to see the whole lyrics which make the whole task meaningless. 
• the rhyme and tone of song are different from the ordinary speaking