Sing the song!

SPONGE BOB ACTIVITY

This activity task will consist in singing the famous “Sponge Bob” song given that I think this is a funny way to begin the course.

In effect, this is a famous cartoon well known among children and that is the reason why I’m sure that it can attract them because it’s a motivating and funny activity that it can break the routine of the theory and writing class.

It’s one activity of the type of large workgroups in which, the class will participate all members, including the teacher.

This activity will consist of:

- First step: The teacher will give each student a piece of paper on which the lyrics of the song are printed.

Then, each student will read the song individually several times.

After that, students will have to look up in the dictionary the words that they don’t know their meaning and then, they will write down in their notebook.

- Second step: Teacher will show in the television the “Sponge Bob” song video three times, so that the students become familiar with the sounds and lyrics of the song.

At this moment to have a relaxing and silent class environment will be essential to promote students' attention to the song.

The teacher's role in this activity is to develop a guiding and counselor learning role through a close deal with the students.

- Third step: we will sing the song together several times while clapping and will make choreography. Actually, with this part of activity, students will enjoy playful and they will develop teamwork capacity.

- Fourth step: In this part activity, we will make a question game so teacher will ask some funny questions to students about Sponge Bob’s life.

It will be in this game when the teacher will evaluate the knowledge acquired by the students such as vocabulary, grammar (of indirect form), pronunciation… The teacher will also correct the pronunciation with a friendly and constructive way.

Students’ expected outcomes:

- An overview of the fun of learning English.

- An improvement of the teamwork skills (with respect, tolerance, friendship ...)

- Learn to actively form through various activities oral aspects of the language such as new vocabulary, speaking and grammar (of indirect form).

- The usefulness learning English for daily life.

Length of time:

The activity will consist of two sixty minutes sessions of each:

First session

They will have to look up individual in the dictionary. (30 minutes).

The viewing of the song. (10 minutes)

The check students learning (20 minutes)

Second session: (60 minutes)

We begin the class by singing “Sponge Bob” several times until it comes correctly (20 minutes)

We play to a questions game (40 minutes)

Description of the target group

The classroom group will be formed of twenty-two students between eight and nine years (third grade of Primary School). The vast majority of the students are Spanish but there are four children of Moroccan origin.

In this case, the school is located in a Catalan small town; so that we are talking about bilingual students whose mother tongue is the Catalan.

In any case, it should be noted that the group is completely adapted to diversity in classroom, because they know each other and share knowledge from the Preschool education.

There is only one pupil with special educational needs; this child has an autistic disorder. Then, this kid has an adapted curriculum and receives more personalized attention through a guard person. But in any case, the activity is fully adapted to improve his capabilities and he can perform it without any problems.

Teaching/Learning objectives

Usually, the first days learners are uncomfortable and stressed because they don’t know among them but the teacher can be in a similar situation.

For this reason, the first days of class are essential to know our students, but also for the teacher to know them and be able to give guidelines to follow the course.

Therefore, it is very important, that the teacher adopt a positive attitude and a cheerful and energetic mood, with the objective of creating a distended, of encouraging and stimulating class environment from the beginning.

The main objective of this activity is to reinforce the intrinsic, integrative and instrumental values of students and motivate them so they can see learning English as something meaningful and useful for their professional and personal life

This activity is appropriate to reinforce the students’ intrinsic values known through the characters. In this way, they can see English learning as something fun and interesting.

I think that this singing activity and watching “Sponge Bob” video is fully connected to the extracurricular life of our students since watching cartoons in their free time is one of their preferences. It is for this reason that this task can contribute to increase the integrative values ​​of the students.

Regarding the instrumental values ​​it’s worth mentioning that this activity can motivate and show students that learning English is something useful. In this specific case, they will obtain much more information from one of their favorite characters.

Classroom arrangement and materials used

For the activity we will go to the music room as we need a clear space to move around. And then, the students should be placed to large circle form and sat on the ground.

The materials we will use are:

o   Television

o   DVD

o   Speakers

o   A sheet of paper

o   Pen

The Sponge Bob Song

Are you ready kids?  I said, are you ready?! 

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? 

SpongeBob Square Pants! 

Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! 

SpongeBob Square Pants! 

If nautical nonsense be something you wish, 

Sponge Bob.

Square Pants! 

Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish! 

SpongeBob Square Pants! 

SpongeBob Square Pants! 

SpongeBob Square Pants! 

SpongeBob Square Pants! 

SpongeBob Square Pants!!!