【正文】 ved in speaking。 It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon. I’m wasting my time, I got nothing to do. I’m hanging around, I’m waiting for you. But nothing ever happens, and I wonder. I’m driving around in my car, I’m driving too fast, and I’m driving too far”. When teachers teach this song, they should not only pay attention to the sound linking, for example, here in a boring room, just another..., around in ..., but also the plosive and the inplete plosive, for instance,go(t) nothing, bu(t) nothing. The teachers may make use of this song to clarify the phonetic system. The students should know this song rhythm. Songs can help establish a feeling for the rhythm and stressing spoken English. Girls and Boys Come Out and Play gives a useful lesson in English rhythm and stressing, such as, “Girls and boys e out and play, The sun above is bright today, Leave your work and leave your sleep, Come and joint us in the street, Come with a shout and bring your call, Come with a smile and bring your ball, Down the steps and up the path, All the fun will make you laugh.” This song makes class funny and lively. Generally speaking, the best way to study English well is to listen and speak more. If students only learn English by learning words and grammar, they are easy to forget. Studying for a long period will make students bored, but English songs can solve this problem. It makes students relaxed, happy and in learning English. Broadening students’ knowledge of English culture Linguists think that the ability of language munities should contain two aspects: language ability and interaction ability. The interaction ability is the petence of users’ social culture. In order to have the interaction ability, teachers should introduce culture in English teaching. In other words, let students know some cultural background knowledge. There are many ways to introduce culture。 percent of them like both singing and listening to songs, 6 percent of them dislike neither singing nor listening to songs。畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計(jì))English Songs: An Efficient Instrument of English Teaching1. Introduction 12. Significances of using songs in English teaching 2 Arousing students’ interest in learning English 2 Improving students’ pronunciation 3 Broadening students’ knowledge of English culture 4 Promoting students39。 involvement in learning English. So EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers can try to use songs in their English classes. 2. Significances of using songs in English teaching Arousing students’ interest in learning English Einstein once said: Interest is the best teacher. It is the interest that makes the class lively and funny. Another educator, Tolstoy, said, “What successful teaching isn’t done by force, but is done by stimulating the student’s interest”(2000:163). A successful teacher can stimulate the students longing for study. However, some listening, speaking, reading, and grammar classes do not appeal to students. English songs are very useful to give rise to interest. Some English songs have vivid contents, sweet rhythm and include a story. These things make students feel that studying English is very interesting. Research done by Jingbo Chen (2004) indicated that: in junior middle school, percent of the students like listening to songs。 percent of them like both singing and listening to songs, percent of them dislike neither singing nor listening to songs. So using songs in English teaching will certainly arouse students’ interest in learning the language, and this method also embodies the teaching principle ‘making learning an enjoyable thing.’ Improving students’ pronunciation Pronunciation is an important aspect of English teaching. When the students learn songs, they can e across the plosive, semivowels, linking, and inplete plosive and so on. These aspects are very important in phonetics. For example, the song ‘Lemon Tree’, Parts of lyrics areI’m sitting here in a boring room。 English petence. Students can develop Englishspeaking ability by singing songs in English. Teaching lowgrade students simple English songs will help students quickly grasp the technology of sentences, such as: “Hello, Hello, How are you?” “Can you spell…?” “This is a pen, this is a book.”. For high school students, leaning to sing English songs can greatly stimulate their enthusiasm for learning English. Although some students are poor in English, the moment they take up English songs, they are to improve their English. During learning songs, they get pleasure of learning English from the graceful rhythem and the lyrics which contain foreign cultural background knowledge, and gradually free their mind of hate and fears about learning English. We konw that English songs are part of foreign culture. As a matter of fact, English songs is a window to see foreign culture. So for intermediate and advanced learners, English songs make them eager to know and talk about some countries39。 listening ability。 teachers ask the students to write a story which began before the story in the song and led to it or write a story which will continue after the song。t release it. So Jacks, who was distraught over a friend39。 ask them to listen for the main idea of the song. After listening to the song, students are required to write down the main idea of the song. Without giving them the key, go to another activity. Remind them to check their answers while listening to the song afterward. (5 minutes)(4) Play the song again。ve climbed hills and trees,learned of love and ABC’s,skinned our hearts and skinned our_____.Goodbye my friend, it39。ll be there.We had_____, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun。 now that the spring is in the air, little children____________, when you39。 and every time that I was down。 But the stars we could reachwere just starfish on the beach.(Keys: together。 from。 on。 since(e) Pray: v. offer thanks, make requests known, etc to God(f) Black sheep: p