Reading Report 5

Opinion
When students are taught only with books and written exercises, they get tired, bored, and stressed. Music is a very good alternative when classes stop being appealing. Music makes students relax, create, imagine. Through music we can say many things: what we feel or felt, what we think, what we want, the experiences we have had or expect to have. When we create a song -especially if those songs are going to be known and sung just by us- we use our own words since books don't have our ideas or feelings. We learn to communicate our real needs not by memorizing words but by having the necessity to find the word we are looking for and that we need for that specific situation. As the article said, besides being helpful, music is fun. Even the most shy students sing when they have to do it at the same time. The learners will enjoy the song if they really like it. So, the teacher should look up a song that is appropriate to the students acquired language, to their needs, and to their likes. The song also should allow the learners to acquire more vocabulary and good pronunciation. In short, learning a second language means not only to be in classroom with books but to share our ideas and feelings.

Vocabulary
conducive. adj. Tending to bring about an intended result. "... teachers must provide a positive atmosphere conducive to language learning." The sports class should be conducive to practice a sport not to work out.

genuinely. adv.
genuine. adj. Not affected or pretended. "...to use target utterances in a genuinely communicative fashion." Susy cried genuinely this morning.

intertwined. trans. and intr. verb. To become closely and intricately linked with each other, or link something closely and intricately with something else. "...the three theoretical reasons are all intertwined and help to..." The classes we attend are intertwined.