The reason I decided to create this blog is because I want to share some music videos and experiences of my own. When I was a child, I always listened to music on FM radios and most of the song lyrics were in English, that was reason enough for me to start a course on that languge at the age of ten. As a result I would become an ELT teacher some years later. From that personal experience, I strongly believe that songs are a powerful source of motivation that could help teachers to keep up the learners´ interests in any language, because everybody enjoys listening to songs for many reasons: A) Most of the themes dealt with in the songs have to do with universal aspects of life such as love, misfortune, breaking up, friendship, etc. B) In case of classroom activities, songs should be meaningful for the students, otherwise they will not feel enthusiatic to work, and learning will not be as effective as planned. C) Songs enable some listening skills and this can help learners to improve their pronunciation skills as they are willing to sound accurate when they sing their favourite ones. There are plenty of more reasons why using songs in the classroom will improve every aspect of the elt class management, but that will be dealt later. Our audience: Teenagers are very difficult to be entertained nowadays because they are highly stimulated with all sorts of technology devices such as cellphones, netbooks, tablets, etc. and those "artifacts" are a strong competence to us (teachers); That is why teaching has become a challenging job, because no fun means no engagement, and then our objectives will not be reached.
"Angels" is a song originally part written by uncredited Irish songwriter, Ray Heffernan and covered by Robbie Williams. Williams and Guy Chambers were subsequently credited as "joint co-writers" and the song was released as a single in December 1997. It became the singer's biggest selling single and has been voted the best song of the past 25 years at the Brit Awards.
"Angels" was the fourth single from Williams' debut album, "Life Thru a Lens". It has been credited with saving the singer's floundering solo career, and is used to conclude almost all of his concerts. The song was the 38th best selling of 1997 in the UK, and the 26th of 1998. It was the 34th best selling single of the decade. Despite only reaching a peak of No.4, it is Williams' biggest selling UK single and according to Official UK Charts Company figures passed the million sales mark in June 2009, with a combination of both physical and download sales. It has sold 1.11 million copies in the UK as of November 2012. It was released in 1999 in the U.S., after his debut of "Millennium." The U.S. released video has Williams atop a roof, watching the city below
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