{"id":17470,"date":"2015-09-30T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=17470"},"modified":"2015-09-30T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T07:51:41","slug":"mixed-up-song-lyrics-game-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mixed-up-song-lyrics-game-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Up Song Lyrics Game Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mixed Up Song Lyrics Game Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Lots of the best ESL<\/a> activities revolve around the examination of a sentence and how you go about putting it back together again. Today, we figure the same idea could apply to song lyrics.<\/p>\n

So what song lyrics do we choose? Well, listening to Ella Fitzgerald singing Rodgers and Hart songs “stole the march” on this decision. The Lorenz Hart lyrics are so witty and “cute” we see it both as something that should be seen and heard, and as a bit of a challenge in the game.<\/p>\n

If you get all the “lyric pieces” from the left hand side into the ordered “slots” on the right hand side, you receive a treat … though there are also “shortcuts” to that treat as well, for those a bit overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

The other thing about music and the learning of a second language, in our case today, English, is that to sing words can be great to overcome reticence about the learner’s accent … it sort of fades away as an issue if you can sing … so …<\/p>\n

… give a live run<\/a> a go … or …<\/p>\n

… take a look at our HTML\/Javascript\/CSS hart_via_ella.html<\/a> supervisor of some PHP iframe element that fits into our “Client Pre-emptive Iframe” functionality ideas, which we grow ever fonder of by the day … though during the nights it fades a bit.<\/p>\n

We thank Wikipedia<\/a> and this very useful website<\/a>, for the great help with the lyrics, for the great help with the lyrics, and for this YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n