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Why listen to songs in an English class? And why listen to We Are the Champions by Queen? The answer is because we can use song lyrics to improve listening skills, pronunciation, accent, spelling, expand student vocabulary, work on items of grammar and inspire students at the same time. The activity will show how songs are beneficial, meaningful, authentic, encouraging and motivating. They can spark interest in learners of all ages.
The activity will show how to create an enjoyable and anxiety-free environment by generating fun warm-up, main and follow-up activities.  
The activity will discuss how several aspects of a language can be addressed and recycled in songs. In order to do that, a methodology will be introduced on how to get lyrics ready for a gap fill activity to do with students as main activity in order to create interest and learning. The activity will also discuss some results based on experience with students of different levels of English as well as with teenagers, university students, young adults and adults. It will also show how songs can be used as relaxing and fun activity at the end of the lesson, on special occasions and so on.

Keywords: listening skills, pronunciation, accent, meaningful, motivating, inspiring.

References:

• Andrew J. Elliot (2003) Handbook of Competence and Motivation. Guildford Publication.
• Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. 2013.
• Paul, D. (1996) Songs and Games for Children. Oxford: MacMillan Heinneman.
• Griffe, D. (1998) Songs and music Techniques in Foreign and Second Language Classrooms. Cross Currents 15 (1): 23-35.
• Morosin S. (2006) Emozioni e apprendimento: il cervello che sente e impara. www.initonline.it/pdf/init19.pdf, pag. 6.
• Nihada Delibegović Džanić, University of Tuzla. Alisa Pejić, University of Tuzla. The Effect of Using Songs on Young Learners and Their Motivation for Learning English. Netsol. New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences. An Interdisciplinary Journal. Volume 1, Issue 2. October 2016, pp 40-54.
• Krashen D., Stephen (1982) Principle and Practice in Second Language Acquisition. University of Southern California.
• Krashen D., Stephen (1988) Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning. Prentice-Hall Internarional.
• Krashen D., Stephen (2003) Exploration in Language Acquisition and Use. Pearson Education Canada.

Websites:

• https://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash-english.html
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/22465/facts-about-freddie-mercury