Best of 2013: #4 – Novice song for Spanish Class Idol
2013’s fourth most popular post is a novice-level activity suggestion using the Latin Grammy’s Song of the Year, Marc Anthony’s Voy a vivir. His performance at the Latin Grammys is sure to get everyone moving and singing to the music!
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The most popular Latin pop song in the country has NOVICE written all over it. The song is called “Voy a vivir” by Marc Anthony. The chorus is a catchy, feel-good, novice-level message:
Voy a reír, voy a bailar
Vivir mi vida lalalalá
Voy a reír, voy a gozar
Vivir mi vida lalalalá
This song begs to be part of any work on talking about what you’re going to do. Stuff like this makes me long to be back teaching level one. Here’s what I would do (and might do with my AP students just for fun!):
- Play the song with the lyrics showing. Students have to read.
- Play the song again with lyrics showing. Students have to sing (or at least mouth the words).
- Students sketch out what activities they’re going to do, say, this afternoon, tomorrow, this weekend, or on a vacation.
- Individuals (volunteers? everyone?) compete for the title “Spanish Class Idol” by singing just the chorus and replacing Marc’s words with their own verbs.
- Students interview each other to find out what others are doing. Students group themselves in groups of 2 or 3 by who’s going to do the same things – need 4 verbs in common.
- Groups sing just the chorus with “vamos a (verb)” instead of “voy a.”
Get singing!
