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The bare necessities

The students at the biotech company I teach at work veeeery hard, and I’m just translating a study on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals in Munich that is super interesting, so you’d think that’s what we’ll be discussing next lesson, right? Wrong. There was a request, you see, to compare the German and the English text of the Walt Disney classic, The Jungle Book. Some of the questions will be: Why did the writers change the text? How different is it in meaning? Can you translate the German text back into English? Rhythmic choral reading and a short dictation will be a part of the lesson, too. Looking forward to it! (Handout with lyrics: the-bare-necessities)

Probier’s mal mit Gemütlichkeit

The bare necessities (Phil Harris, Bruce Reitherman)


englischlernen mit liedern :-) learning english with songs

Posted by Anne on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 6:02 pm.

4 Responses to “The bare necessities”

    Hi Anne,

    Love this! Isn’t it interesting how students swing a left on us teachers every now and then. There we are, off to class, feeling all swish- got something they’re interested in me’bag and then wham! “Can we do the bare necessities?!” LOL

    Oooooh, I reckon there’s no end to this lesson -you could also expand the conversation aspect, after the rhymthic choral reading etc, by sticking the words “bare necessities” up on the board and getting them to come up with a list of their essentials (or borrowing on the theme of your pretty blog – hey did you know we look like sisters-blogs ;-) ), sorry distracted…

    you could get them to make a list of essentials they’d need to survive on a deserted island, spiralling off into discussions about how to manage if the financial crisis turns into a major depression etc, etc.

    ;-) Karenne
    p.s. downloaded the lyrics and off to go grab that video -it’ll be a super lesson to have when sun shining and need something funny.

    Left by Karenne Sylvester on April 14th, 2009

    Hey Karenne,
    you’re right, it’s just the thing for a sunny afternoon :) Definitely good for an upbeat “island” talk.
    Your blog looks lovely BTW!

    Left by anne on April 15th, 2009

    Hi Anne,

    I am the editor of an ELT newsletter ELTWeekly.com (http://eltweekly.com).

    I would love to post your content in my newsletter it has subscriber base of 850 teachers in more than 35 countries.

    Tarun (tarunjpatel AT gmail.com)

    Left by Tarun on April 21st, 2009

    Hi Tarun,

    Thanks, http://www.eltweekly.com/ is really nice. Just let me know how or what I can contribute.

    Warm regards,
    Anne

    Left by anne on April 22nd, 2009

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