Week 34 · Music: English You Can Hear

Language target語言目標

Listening, idioms, contractions, vocabulary in context.

Seasonal / Taiwan connection季節與台灣連結

Awards-season connection: treat the class like a music awards show—best song, best message, best vocabulary.

Power vocabulary核心字彙 · 8 words · 中文與例句由 MCC 補充

lyricsn.歌詞I looked up the lyrics after the first listen.永遠用複數 · ✗ a lyric（除非指一句）
chorusn.副歌Everyone sings along with the chorus.重複的那一段 · 先學副歌最有效率
versen.主歌The second verse tells you what happened.故事通常藏在 verse，不在 chorus
beatn.節拍Clap on the beat while you listen.英文的重音會落在 beat 上——這就是聽得懂的鑰匙
messagen.訊息；要說的話What is the message of this song?Dom 的作業要問這個
feelingn.感覺The song has a lonely feeling.feeling 是感覺，emotion 較正式
phrasen.片語"Let it go" is a useful phrase.唸法：/freɪz/ · 一組字，不是一個字
expressionn.說法；表情That expression means you should stop worrying.兩個意思：語言的說法、臉上的表情

The lesson, minute by minute · 課堂流程

60 minutes, four moves

0–10 min
Homework review複習作業every week · 每週相同
Review last week's assignment. Ask 2–3 students to share. Correct one common error and celebrate one strong example.
10–20 min
Vocabulary單字every week · 每週相同
Teach 5–10 target words. Always include: meaning, Chinese equivalent when useful, example, synonym, antonym, and/or word family.
35–50 min
Fun / application應用活動
Clean-song listening challenge: predict missing words, decode expressions, then discuss the song's message.
50–57 min
Challenge / exit ticket挑戰與出場券every week · 每週相同
Each student produces something before leaving: a sentence, answer, mini-story, explanation, role-play, or spoken response. Keep it quick and visible.

Teaching pack · 教學包

Ready to run, no preparation

Activities you can read straight off this page, written to fit the blocks above.
可以直接照著這一頁上的活動，對應上面每一段課堂流程。

Who wrote what The lesson plan above is Dom Jones's, including her choice of this week's power vocabulary. The Chinese, the example sentences and the practice sets below are added by My Culture Connect so the plan can be taught without preparation.
上面的教案出自 Dom Jones，包括本週核心字彙的選擇；下面的中文、例句與練習由人師教育協會補充，讓這份教案不必備課就能上。

The trap · you cannot hear it because it is not there

陷阱・聽不到是因為它真的不見了

This is the most important card in the unit. Chinese is syllable-timed — 你在做什麼 gives five syllables five beats. English is stress-timed: content words keep their length, everything else gets crushed. Students are not missing vocabulary; they are listening for sounds that were never pronounced.
這是整個單元最重要的一張卡。中文是音節等長——「你在做什麼」五個字五拍。英文是重音等距：實詞保留長度，其餘全部被壓扁。學生缺的不是單字，他們是在聽一些根本沒有被唸出來的聲音。

What are you doing? → 唸起來像 "Whatcha doin'?"
I would have gone. → 像 "I'd-uv gone."　(would have 幾乎消失)
Do you want to go? → "D'ya wanna go?"
重音落在：名詞、主要動詞、形容詞、疑問詞
被壓扁的是：a, the, of, to, have, are, was, and
課堂實驗：拍手唸 "CATS eat FISH" 和 "the CATS have EAten the FISH"——拍子一樣多，字數不一樣。

Listen three times, three jobs

聽三次，三種任務

One listen with three different instructions beats three aimless listens. Never ask students to understand everything on the first pass — that is what makes them give up.
同一首歌聽三次、每次任務不同，勝過漫無目的聽三次。絕對不要在第一次就要求全部聽懂——那正是讓學生放棄的原因。

第一次　只聽感覺：快樂？難過？生氣？不看歌詞。
第二次　只抓重複最多的那一句（通常就是 chorus）。
第三次　發歌詞，挖空八個字，補上去。
最後才討論：What is the message? 這一題要用英文回答。

Music Awards · the categories

音樂頒獎典禮・獎項

Dom's awards-show framing. Each team nominates one song and must defend it in English. The defence is the assessment — the award itself is just the excuse.
Dom 設計的頒獎典禮。每組提名一首歌，並用英語替它辯護。辯護才是評量，獎項只是藉口。

Best Message · 最值得聽的一句話
Best Vocabulary · 學到最多新字的一首
Easiest to Understand · 最聽得懂的一首（說出為什麼）
Hardest to Understand · 最難的一首（說出哪裡難）
Frame: We nominate ______ because ______ . The best line is " ______ ."

Exit ticket · one line you can now hear

出場券・一句你現在聽得懂的話

One line from the song, written out, plus what it sounded like before they saw it written. The gap between the two is the lesson.
寫下歌裡的一句話，再寫下「還沒看到歌詞之前聽起來像什麼」。兩者之間的差距就是這堂課。

The line: ______
What I thought I heard: ______

Prep · 備課 No preparation needed, but read the trap card before this unit starts — it explains the whole media unit. Students with large vocabularies still cannot hear English, and the reason is rhythm, not words. Chinese gives every syllable the same length; English squashes the unstressed ones almost to nothing. Songs exaggerate this, which is why they teach listening better than any textbook.
不必備課，但整個單元開始前先看陷阱卡——它解釋了這七週的全部。學生單字量夠大卻還是聽不懂英文，原因是節奏，不是字。中文每個音節長度差不多，英文把非重音的音節壓到幾乎不見。歌曲把這件事誇大了，所以它教聽力比任何課本都有效。