ESL song activity – Let It Go – Frozen Learn new words and fill in the missing words
For English Learners
Play the video and follow the tasks
[show-hide]The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation, and it looks like I’m the Queen
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in; Heaven knows I tried
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well now they know
Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold it back any more
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don’t care what they’re going to say
Let the storm rage on
the cold never bothered me anyway
It’s funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me
Can’t get to me at all
It’s time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me,
I’m free!
Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You’ll never see me cry
Here I stand
And here I’ll stay
Let the storm rage on
My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I’m never going back, the past is in the past
Let it go, let it go
And I’ll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand
In the light of day
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
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Enjoy the animation clip. It’s fabulously gorgeous!!!
For English Teachers
One of the ways to use this song in the ESL lesson.
1. Ask the students if they have seen animation film “Frozen”. Depending on their answers either talk about their impressions or tell a little about it yourself.
2. Tell you’re going to listen to the song from this film. Describe the context where it appears in the animation story.
3. If necessary pre-teach 3 new words (slides 2-5)
4. Brainstorm possible words collocations (slides 6-8). If necessary you may turn to a collocation dictionary. I personally like http://www.ozdic.com/
5. Let the students listen to the song for the first time concentrating on 9 words. (slide 8)
6. Listen for the second time and do the gap-fill.
7. Discuss their understanding and impression of the song.
8. You may give a writing task based on the song listening. Write a diary entry from a character of this song.
thanks anna!
great activities!
I can’t wait to try this activity next week! Thank you for this brilliant lesson plan.
I do have a question. What does it look like to brainstorm possible word collocations? I’ve never done that in my ESL classes before. Also, I will be doing this with 6th and 7th graders in China; I need to make sure it’s not too difficult.
Thank you for your further comments!
Jane
I’m happy you are going to use these activities with your students.
While brainstorming word collocations I usually ask questions that might help the students to think of verbs or adjectives that may go together with a word. In this case, for example, it’s “what can snow do? (fall, melt, cover the ground”, “what snow can be like” (light, heavy, thick). Obviously, this activity is more suitable for B2, C1 level students, otherwise, it may be too difficult and frustrating.
Thanks! This is fantastic. And well timed. “Let it Go’ seems to be the most popular song in Taiwan at the moment. Maybe in the world . . .
I think you should add some music to it to help the children that are struggling a bit instead of them cheating and seeing the rest of the answers.
you are awsome
Thank you so much.
It’s such a great idea.
I’m so excited to use it for the upcoming english summer camp
Very creative and apela inf activities! Thanks
Hey great page. I also have this interesting page about learning English with Frozen here http://www.kidsesl.net/2014/07/learn-english-with-frozen.html
Hello Anna, Could you please send me the slides of frozen class? You’ve done a really great job!