ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the English as a Foreign Language teacher how to use music and song exercises that will engage both teacher and student in meaningful, real, and honest language activity. Teachers of English as a Foreign or Second Language and teachers of other languages will find these activities useful tools in their professional repertoire. The activities are divided into two parts: the first–Exercises in Microlanguage–containing traditional language practice activities, with some differences in approach, and the second–Exercises in Macrolanguage–containing humanistic, personal types of activities. Music, in its directness, cuts to the core of expression. The skill in using a song as a language learning tool is in keeping the enjoyment of the music and the pedagogical purpose in balance. Music is particularly effective in the area of personal expression because it has the effect of crystallising and evoking feelings which would otherwise never surface.
