TASK 2: INVENTING THE LYRICS OF AN ENGLISH SONG ABOUT CATALAN CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS WITH A CATALAN CHRISTMAS MELODY. Students Duration School Year Teachers involved Catalan Students November 200910 Cristina Arnau, Inès Boix, Victor December 2009 Esgueva, Queralt Santandreu, Pere Camprubí. Subjects Title and justification of the unit English INVENTING THE LYRICS OF AN ENGLISH SONG ABOUT CATALAN CHRISTMAS Music TRADITIONS WITH A CATALAN CHRISTMAS MELODY. Didactic Objectives Basic competences Assessment criteria C1.Linguistic communicative Invent English lyrics. Share traditions with Swedish students/Catalan competence. Explain their Christmas traditions. students. C3. Knowledge of and interaction with Work in groups. Work collaboratively and in groups. the physical world. Respect the other groups’ songs. Share the music class and the English class. C4. Competence in information and communication technologies. C5. Social and civil competence. C7. The competence of learning to learn. C8. The competence of personal autonomy and initiative. Activities We provided them some Christmas vocabulary. Session 2.1. Make groups of 4 people. Create the lyrics of a song in English with the melody of a traditional Catalan Christmas song: el rabadà, el 25 de desembre, el desembre congelat, el dimoni escuat, el noi de la mare, santa nit, les dotze van tocant, la pastora Catalina. Explain our Catalan traditions by means of your new lyrics. Be creative (you can add Merry Christmas in the 4 languages: Catalan, Spanish, English and Swedish). Session 2.2. Each group will sing the song you have created and we will vote the best in our class. This song will be rehearsed in the music class with musical instruments and then we will record it as a videoclip and we will send it to Sweden!!! (at the end of November you will record it during the music class.) Session 2.3. They practised the song in the music class. Session 2.4. On the 11th December 2009, we recorded the song. And we created the videoclips.
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