Still on the subject of teaching, over and over again , personality adjectives to my students I bumped into a post where this song was suggested for the teaching of these adjectives.
This is the handout from this song I’m going to give my intermediate students. It contains a bit of everything: working with opposites, phonetics and open questions.
Hope you enjoy the song! handout , HERE
Step 1. Look at the mosaic below with the faces of some well-known celebrities and, bearing in mind what you know about them, write a description based on their personalities. Make sure you use personality adjectives. Do not mention the name of the celebrity you are describing as your classmates aim will be to find out who you are describing. Please, don’t be too flattering or too hard on people. Remember that “not all that glitters is gold”.
Important: the description should be written in the way of a comment to this post. How to do it? at the end of the post, click No Comments (or 9 Comments if hopefully I have already published nine comments), leave the comments in the right field, repeat the required anti-spam word and click Submit Comment.
Step 2. Let’s have some fun. How would you fancy converting text to music? This funny programme allows you to type any words and it sings them back to you. Try typing some personality adjectives and listen to them sung by different people. The site is called Text to sing.
Step 3. Exercises. Do the following online exercises .
Step 4: Writing. How do you see yourself and how others see you? This task, as you can imagine, requires mature students as it involves writing and reading about you. First, students find a classmate they know pretty well. Secondly, students write about their own personality and then, about their friend’s personality. Encourage students to explain and exemplify why they have chosen a certain adjective to describe them and also to describe a negative trait in their personalities as well as in their friend’s. Students pair themselves and compare what they have written.
Step 5. Singing Hand in my pocket by Alanis Morisette
This is probably one of most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.I hope you enjoy it! Have a nice weekend!
I can’t imagine life without music but much though I love listening to it when I’m driving, working, relaxing or having fun, you won’t see me bringing music to the classroom just because. There is always a reason to choose the song I ask my students to sing. It could be either because it contains a certain structure we are working with or because of its vocabulary or its phonetics, but there is always a reason
This is why when I bumped into this site lyreach.com I was thrilled as it offers the possibility of typing words or idioms or structures as you might 
expect to get them in the lyrics. The lyrics of about 470000 songs are stored so the hard part is choosing which of these songs you would like to work with. Then you click on your choice to see the paragraphs that it appeared in, the title of the song and the singer and sometimes a clip from Amazon.com
In this case I was looking for a song containing Adjectives with too and enough and this is what I found.
You might be interested in having a look at these songs:
It is said that Music tames the wild beast and I’m sure that it will also work with my youngest students. This is a nice way to revise Present Continuous.