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This is a tutorial I made on how to use this Padlet. I hope it is clear and provides enough information so you can enjoy this experience and become an expert user, reader and author!

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Using Al Son de las Palabras / The Sound of Words Padlet

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This is a video to teach my students how to use our Padlet.

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Al Son de las Palabras Original Material.

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Al Son de las Palabras Original Material.

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This is the original material this entire space is based on. It's in Spanish, so you can start by having a look around here before you start exploring The Sound of Words.

You can download it here:

AL SON DE LAS PALABRAS (Ministerio de Educación de la Nación)

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Many poems talk about love, or lost love. Poets sing when they're both happy and sad because of love. Some poems can be sad and tragic, some are sweet and tender and others are quite homorous!

Check some poems out here and comment on how you feel about them in a post:

BROWNIELOCKS.com VALENTINE POEMS

You can also visit this page, which contains love poems sorted out by subtopics and author:

POETRY FOUNDATION.org

Remember you can also write your own poems and share them in our blog. Here is the link just in case you missed it:

AL SON DE LAS PALABRAS / THE SOUND OF WORDS (Wordpress)

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In Al Son de las Palabras (Lobello & Benvegnu, 2010), you learnt how to use songs to stop you from getting bored. One song you learnt was "Hay un balde en el fondo de la mar", where you keep inserting objects in the song and having fun. Did you know there is an equivalent song in English? In fact, this song is considered a traditional folk song in English.
Now you know the song in Spanish, you can practise this very similar song in English! Below is a link with the lyrics of this song and other similar ones so you can start to play and sing:

SONGS FOR TEACHING.com

The video below has subtitles so you can also sing along for practice!

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A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea | Barefoot Books Singalong

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Singing with your classmates and friends!

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Singing with your classmates and friends!

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If you want to fight boredom, or simply relax at school during the break, on a rainy day or while you're taking a stroll in the park or travelling, it's a great idea to sing! In fact, many children and young boys and girls not only sing songs they make up, but love singing well-known today's hits! Look at the fun these students in secondary school had making these videos! What apps do you think they used to create these videos?

SONGS IN REAL LIFE SCHOOL EDITION (Youtube)

SONGS IN REAL LIFE THROWBACK EDITION (Youtube)

The video which is embedded in this post below were created by two lovely Parisian student-artists, Jamal and Allya Madani Ginapé. They speak French as a mother tongue, but love to sing in English! Music is universal and international! The videos were joined using iMovie but individually created with the apps Dubmash and Musical.ly, which are available at https://www.dubsmash.com and http://musical.ly

I hope you like them and they are inspiring work!

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Tongue twisters can be great fun to play with, and they can also be quite challenging to get really right!
Listen to your teacher reading out some tongue twisters to you:

TONGUE TWISTERS 1 (Souncloud)
TONGUE TWISTERS 2 (Soundcloud)

You can acess the PDF file to read along with your teacher here:

TONGUE TWISTERS (pdf)

You can also try to read some of the many interesting tongue twisters in the British Council page:

TONGUE TWISTERS (British Council Page)

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check out this site by the British Council which gives you access to jokes in English, Spanish and other languages if you're curious to know what they would look and sound like! Jokes are universal, aren't they? Look:

JOKES (British Council Page)

This is yet another site which shows you "jokes of the day", so you can have a laugh on a daily basis!

KIDS' JOKES OF THE DAY.com

Do you know any jokes you would like to share? Do you think that some jokes in Spanish could be translated into English and they would still be funny? Can you contribute some of them in a post?

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A Blog where you can read nice poems and limericks and write yours!

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A Blog where you can read nice poems and limericks and write yours!

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These are some nice blogs where English-speaking children and adolescents write their poems and read their peers'. You are invited to subscribe to them and post your own if you feel like it!

POETRY FOR KIDS.com

WRITE OUT LOUD.net

POETRY FOR CHILDREN.blogspot.com.ar

Check out the following limericks written by children:

BROWNIELOCKS.com LIMERICKS

And, if you like reading as part of a group, here is an activity for choral reading of limericks:

LIMERICKS CHORAL READING.com (pdf)

Notice that you can listen to the limericks read out by your teacher in the post above on Soundcloud.

And this is our own blog, where you will probably feel more comfortable writing:

AL SON DE LAS PALABRAS / THE SOUND OF WORDS (Wordpress)

In our blog, there are links to useful videos which will give you interesting tips on how to write limericks which are both easy to crate and to remember. I leave two links here just in case you have no time to check the blog out:

HOW TO WRITE A LIMERICK (Youtube)

SAMPLE LIMERICK FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (Youtube)

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"Coplas" are very popular in Spanish, and the closest equivalent in English is limericks. Poems are present in every culture, and when it comes to both limericks or poems, there is a lot of magic and musicality to them. Listen to your teacher reading out some limericks to you on this audiofile:

LIMERICKS (Soundcloud)

You can practise reading along by downloading this PDF file which contains the written text:
LIMERICKS (pdf)

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This is a project we started last year with some student-helpers at university. We based our audivisual productions on two principles: remixing, mashup and some theory on fanfics. We chose to remix classical stories for children and to explore the lives of very well-known characters like Cinderella, Pinocchio, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood. Below you will find a video that we made and we musicalised using a synthesiser. This particular story is really fun and remixes the lives of Pinoccio and Little Red Riding Hood. It was originally intended for students to use as a source of dictation in English, but you can read it along with the different readers and enjoy the music while you play with words! Below you will also find access to a PDF file with the story both in English and in Spanish:

PINOCCHIO AND LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (pdf)

The second PDF file you can download contains information on remixing, mashup and fanfics as well as some notions on the idea of copyright in English, and it is a an excerpt from an article we wrote in relation to this particular project:

REMIXING, FANFIC, MASHUP AND COPYRIGHT (pdf)

The video attached to this post was made on iMovie.

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Come On Everybody, Let´s Sing! (Birkenshaw-Fleming, 2000)

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Come On Everybody, Let´s Sing! (Birkenshaw-Fleming, 2000)

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This is a very interesting material which you can download as an e-book and carry on your phone or tablet, so that you can resort to it every and any time you feel like singing alone or as part of a group. It even includes music scores so you can learn the melodies and play your favourite instrument while you sing! You can have a peek at the book in Google Books to see if you like it!

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Written by the author of Music for Fun, Music for Learning, the book incorporates a child's activities such as singing, dancing, playing instruments and body movements and gestures to develop the understanding of musical concepts, musical literacy and an appreciation for different kinds of music as well as co-ordination, motor and listening skills, social skills and acquisition of basic facts.

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Any songs or remixes you would like to share?

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Any songs or remixes you would like to share?

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This is my contribution to this Padlet. You can sing along with me and if you feel like it, share your favourite song/rhyme or record yourself singing a capella, to the sound of a guitar or piano, or just singing out loud with friends. Then we can all enjoy a good time and a good laugh!

TEN GREEN BOTTLES A CAPELLA (Soundcloud)

You can also sing along to the video below!

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Ten Green Bottles | Nursery Rhymes | Recycle Songs

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Singing as part of a group has great benefits to someone's health in general. Watch the following Ted Talk (you can use subtitles in English or Spanish for help) and try to think of and search for other good points of singing together so you can add them onto the Padlet.

HOW SINGING TOGETHER CHANGES THE BRAIN (Ted Talk Youtube)

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When you like a song or a rhyme and it´s easy to remember, if you´re home alone you can try singing it at full volume to see how you feel. You can also play your favourite songs and rhymes and sing along at the top of your lungs and voice!
Check these ones out, you can find the lyrics on the Web to sing along, or you can just try on your own:

BEST 50 ENGLISH NURSERY RHYMES (Youtube)

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Can you contribute your own film suggestions?

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Can you contribute your own film suggestions?

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There surely are films that you've seen which relate to the topic of the power of words and music. Can you share them and explain what made you like them? How did they make you feel? You may write, record or video yourself and share your views.

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Here is another, more contemporary film: August Rush. Have you seen it? What is the main idea here? Did you like the film? Why (not)?

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Starring: Freddie Highmore Keri Russell Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Robin Williams Terrence Howard © Warner Bros. Pictures My blog about Freddie ↓ http://highmore-freddie.blog.cz/

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The Sound of Words and the Sound of Music.

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The Sound of Words and the Sound of Music.

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Do you know this famous classic? What function do singing and music play in this film? What function do they play in your life?

THE SOUND OF MUSIC TRAILER (Youtube)