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Understanding the Dancing Queen: Lyrics, Grammar, and Vocabulary Activities

This educational activity explores the iconic song "Dancing Queen" through interactive methods. Students will tick phrases, explain vocabulary in their own words, and predict titles and contexts. They’ll listen to the song, fill in blanks, and match sentences to reinforce understanding. Key vocabulary includes "jive," "swing," and "tambourine." The lesson highlights grammar structures found in the lyrics, enhancing students' language skills. Get ready to dance and learn!

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Understanding the Dancing Queen: Lyrics, Grammar, and Vocabulary Activities

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  1. Group 3 Branden 596201201 Alan 597202226 Cora 596201316 Henry 597202276 May 597202018

  2. Interface: Song

  3. Method • Tick the words, phrase, or grammar • Explain it in student’s language • Predict the title and context according to the ticks, make sentence with the ticks • Present the song • Choose the right word for each blank or match the sentences • Listen to the song again • Repedition

  4. Unfamiliar Words • Vocabulary: • Jive: swing music or perform dancing • Swing: to move wildly or to make circles by body • Tambourine: a small drum • Teaser:whofoolsothers • Phrase: • look out for: try to find out • in the mood for: do something for an emotion or a feeling http://www.copper.net.nz/pages/what-we-do/

  5. Grammar in Lyrics • You can danceYou can jiveHaving the time of your lifeSee that girlWatch that sceneDig in the dancing queen • “dig” for spoken language: knowing how to do or how to be

  6. Grammar in Lyrics • Friday night and the lights are lowLooking out for a place to goWhere they play the right musicGetting in the swing • Where is the relative pronoun for the place you found • You come to look for a kingAnybody could be that guy • That guy = the king you found

  7. Grammar in Lyrics • Night is young and the music's highWith a bit of rock musicEverything is fineYou're in the mood for a dance • “young” is usually used for age but seldom for day or time; however, the grammar here has no wrong, and the description for night is skillful for image

  8. Grammar in Lyrics • And when you get the chanceYou are the dancing queenYoung and sweetOnly seventeen • you are a young, sweet, and only seventeen dancing queen when once get the chance. • Dancing queenFeel the beat from the tambourineYou can danceYou can jiveHaving the time of your lifeSee that girl Watch that sceneDigin the dancing queen

  9. Grammar in Lyrics • You're a teaser, you turn them onLeave them burning and then you're goneLooking out for anotherAnyone will doYou're in the mood for a danceAnd when you get the chanceYou are the dancing queenYoung and sweetOnly seventeen

  10. Blank You can dance / chance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene/ film, diggin' the dancing queen Friday night and the lights are go /low Looking out for the place to go /low Where they play the right music, getting in the swing / king You come in to look for a swing / king Anybody could be that guy/buy Night is young and the music is high/guy With a bit of rock music, everything is fine/right Youre in the mood for a dance/chance And when you get the dance/chance...

  11. You are the dancing queen, __________ and __________, only __________ Dancing queen, __________ the beat from the tambourine You __________ dance, you __________ jive, having the time of your life See that girl, ________ that ________, dig in the dancing queen

  12. Match • You’re a teaser, • Leave them burning • Looking out for another, • Youre in the mood • And when you get a. anyone will do b. and then you're gonec. you turn them ond. for a dancee. the chance...

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