A better way to practice listening—Lyrics training

A better way to practice listening—Lyrics training

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'Brilliant adventure game for language learners.'

If your students love music, then congrats, here is one perfect online English learning website for you. Lyricstraining is one website that provides students with abundant music resources to practice their listening and spelling.

1. What's lyricstraining? 

Have you ever thought about learning English by listening to music? If you have dreamed it for a long time, then Lyricstraining can accomplish your expectation. This is one easy website for you to make your students music time into learning time. The game design of this website is that the gamer listens to the music and fill the blank in the lyrics (see in Pic 1). This mechanism of the game will train students' listening skill and spelling skill at the same time. 

Picture 1
 source:https://lyricstraining.com/play/aurora/the-seed/HHg21StEhH#ibw!guntherxi123

You don't need to pay for this tool; you just need to register to save your record and scores. Of course, there are some features that you need to pay for. In the main menu (see in Pic 2), you can select the language you want to practice and search the song you want to play by names, genres and singers. After choosing the song, they will also let you choose the level of difficulty you want to play. There are two main game modes: write and choice. In write mode, you need to type in the missing word in lyrics and in the choice mode, the system will provide players with several possible answers to fill the blank in lyrics (see in Pic 3). The score and bonus points are applied in the game to motive students better.

Picture 2
Source:https://lyricstraining.com/

Picture 3

Source:https://lyricstraining.com/play/aurora/the-seed/HHg21StEhH#ibc!guntherxi123

2. How to use Lyricstraining in class?

Of course, you can choose a song to let students practice in class together. But, everyone has their own music taste, my suggestion for using Lyricstraining is that just let students use it after class. If they are that kind of people who love remembering lyrics and listen to the song, again and again, they will absolutely love this website. Moreover, if you do want to practice one sone together in the class, there is one new feature on that website. It's called 'new exercise' (see in Pic 4)and teachers can use this feature to create and modify their own practice for students.

Picture 4
Source: https://lyricstraining.com/play/aurora/the-seed/HHg21StEhH#ibc!guntherxi123

3. Comments

This website is such a useful and easy tool for teachers to motive their students in learning English. Not to mention that it's free to use and is a rare teaching tool that can both be utilised in class and after class self-learning. No matter how no one can refuse music!!!

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13/02/2019