Yr 10 – Watch out the X Factor, here come 10Fr2!
Wow, what an interesting week we have had! We started a new topic on leisure and we started by revising some of the key sports etc and some basic phrases. Then we started to put some of these key phrases together to form the verse of a song. Using Mrs Hampson’s marvellous laptop technology, each small group recorded a verse to the tune of the song ‘La Bamba’, using a midi file as a backing track and using the Audacity software to achieve this!
Then Mrs H took home the saved efforts (which had been saved in wav format) and ‘mixed’ the verses onto the backing track using Audacity. It has been saved in an MP3 format and here is the final result (click on the link at the start of this post) – a bit cheesy we know (though not as cheesy as cheesy chipmunks Jenni & Sam!) but for a very first effort it was good and fun was had by all! Seriously though, it is well known that language learning through the media of songs is a winner as phrases and vocab can be easier to remember! The only trouble is, I now have more classes queuing up for their turn! Well done 10Fr2 – Simon Cowell be afraid, be very afraid!!
