Create a song

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Today's goals

- You will make a song or rap with your teammates

Warm-up 

• What is the song about?
• Which lines rhyme?
• What mood/message do you hear?

What rhymes and what is the message?

You can be the greatest, you can be the best,

You can be the King Kong banging on your chest.

Topic

Suggested topics:

My school life

Weekend vibes

Friendship

The environment

Online life

Being a teenager

Now:

Each group chooses a topic and creates a mind map with key words.

Example – Topic: Friendship

Laughing, trust, fight, care, share, hang out, memories, together

Rhyme words: bear, share, care, rare, despair

Writing support

Structure suggestion:

1 Chorus (repeated)

2 Verses (each 4 lines)

Optional: Ending line or outro

Rhyme scheme ideas:

AABB (lines 1 and 2 rhyme, 3 and 4 rhyme)

ABAB (1 rhymes with 3, 2 with 4)

Example Chorus Scaffold:

ex. We go through the highs, we go through the lows

Always together, that’s how it goes

No matter the weather, no matter the fight

We got each other, we’ll be all right

Verse Example (School Life

 Theme):

ex. Woke up late, had to rush to the train,

My coffee spilled – now there’s a stain.

Teacher said, “You’re five minutes late!”

But I smiled and said, “Ain’t school great?”

rhymezone.com 

Now practice the song/rap with a beat

(It does not matter what kind of beat)

- Clapping/beatboxing

- Instrumentals