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2020-06-15 15:33
Date of last update: 2020-06-15 15:35In order to enhance students' interest in learning English, Aldrich Bay Government Primary School has organized different English folk song activities since 2017. It has also set up multiple bands such as student folk song group, summary group, parent-child folk song team, and even introduced English folk songs into the curriculum and During the activity, students can enjoy the fun of folk songs and enhance their motivation to learn. Since 1960, many famous folk bands and singers such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul & Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, Everly Brothers, etc. have sung beautiful and beautiful English folk songs. The melody seems simple and pure, but the lyrics are Contains different meanings, some express homesickness, some reflect the injustice of the society at that time, some promote world peace, and some are thoughts of family members and lovers, which are memorable. Aiguan helps students build confidence in learning English by "singing folk songs to learn English."
Interdisciplinary Cooperation between English and Music Department-Folk Song Education
English and music teachers work together to turn folk songs into interesting learning materials, select twelve folk songs, and compile teaching materials, organically integrate English learning at all levels, analyze lyrics content and teach English, such as tense , Rhyme (Rhyme), specific conditional sentence (Conditional Sentence), etc.; also appreciate the melody of folk songs to teach music theory, such as the verse-chorus form of the main song and chorus, the difference between minor and major (MINOR AND MAJOR) and so on. Originally scheduled for January and February, many folk singers and bands were invited to the school to have fun with the public, and then the music and English teachers will follow up in the classroom and coursework. Later, due to the suspension of the epidemic, the school invited guests and teachers to join together Twelve special episodes of "Singing Folk Songs to Learn English" were produced to allow students to easily learn English at home. The climax of the whole event is that Aiguan held an online online concert of <Aiguan has FOLK gas> at 2:00 pm on June 6, 2020, inviting the famous folk singer Zhang Shuqiang (CAPO band lead singer FRANKIE), senior folk song Instructor Mr. Yu Deshen and Principal Liang Zhiwen from Ford Academy Primary School sang more than ten classic English folk songs to cheer all students and fight against the epidemic together.
Relive the 12th album "Sing Folk Songs to Learn English": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbIw3jEWMeVlgElchvfhfZg/videos
Relive the "Love Officer Has FOLK Gas" Online Folk Song Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdUYbVyGEAU
Let parents fall in love with folk songs-Parent-Child Folk Song Group
The school fully understands the importance of home-school cooperation for education, and English folk songs are accompanied by parents who grow up with great affection, so Aiguan established the "Parent-Child Folk Songs Group" to let parents and students fall in love with singing English folk songs. On a weekend morning every month, dozens of parents and students will happily return to the school's music world and learn to sing English folk songs with their instructors. There are also different folk song bands and guests, such as Mr. Liu Chongyan, The Horizions, Hong Kong Summary Society, Stephanie, and Teacher Chen Jiasheng. From the initial follow-up singing and learning live singing, everyone began to try to sing harmony, and even acted as a guest outside the school to share the fun of folk songs with the citizens, the elderly, and the young people. The "Parent-Child Folk Song Group" is now a resident performing team for large-scale Aiguan events.
Let's Have Fun-Community Folk Music Festival
In May 2019, Aiguan held the first folk song show since the school opened-"Eastern Folk Songs Aiguan". Under the leadership of Shenzhen Brother and the music teacher, the other team, the student folk song team, and the unaccompanied choir. , Hand bell team, student choir and parent-child folk song group together with the performing guests, including the famous folk singer Ms. Zhang Lijin, Johnny, Sampson & Sunny and Red Horse Parent Folk Song Team together with more than 200 parents, elders and friends in the district Schoolmates brought sweet English folk songs and spent a pleasant afternoon together. In December, the school co-organized with the Hong Kong Youth Association Jockey Club Shau Kei Wan Youth Space and received funding from the District Council to hold a two-day "Eastern District Music Festival for Youth". Through music, dance and art, students will know their own Community, release positive energy. The first day of the music festival is based on the theme of English folk songs. In addition to the performance teams of our school, the performance team also invited four powerful folk song teams, including The Horizons, CherryK Music, Red Horse Parent Folk Song Group and Qing Yun Folk Song Group. Sharing a lot of beautiful folk songs, the next day the music festival moved to the East District Cultural Plaza, allowing more citizens to participate and share the wonderful singing. The school organizes folk music festivals in the community to promote the importance of protecting English folk songs to the public.
"Primary school. Big community" school concept-"take the community, give back to the community" Aiguan is a member of the community and a member of the education community, and runs the school with the "small school. big community" concept. In promoting the work of folk songs and music, Aiguan invites all walks of life to visit the Ai School and share their music. Their professionalism, and hope that the precious seed of "sing folk songs to learn English" can get everyone's support, thrive and let Xinxin students enjoy the fun of learning English. On the other hand, Aiguan promotes the concept of folk song conservation to the public through different large-scale events and program productions, and enhances everyone's love for English folk songs, so as to be a "community for the community and give back to the community."
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