Chris Teacher (a.k.a 'The Captain')
Do you like music? What kind of music do you listen to? How often do you listen to music? Here at LanguageLab one of our City People, Griffin Morrisey is a musician and composer.
Griffin does lots of activities which students trying to learn English find really helpful. Firstly, there is his regular sing along. Students who attend this activity find themselves learning new vocabulary and practicing their intonation by memorizing the words to a song and trying to sing along with it. People can be a little shy about singing in front of others at first. The shyness soon goes away though, because Griffin never forces anyone to sing if they don’t want to. Usually by the end of the session everyone is having such fun that they forget about their shyness and are happily ‘crooning’ away with the rest of the group. As you have probably already guessed, it’s also a great way to improve self-confidence.
When hanging out with Griffin you can also participate in his ‘learning about music’ activities. In these activities students learn how to read music and name and recognise different instruments from the orchestra. If you are wondering how this can help you improve your English, don’t forget that everything he does, he does in English and that sometimes the best way to learn a language is simply by learning about something in that language. Not to mention the fact that learning to recognize the sounds of different instruments is fantastic ear training, which in turn can really help with listening and pronunciation skills.
Finally, just like our resident actress Pebbles Kronfeld, Griffin does script reading activities with the students. To read more about how these activities can help people wanting to practice English click here.
It is so cool! I am trying to do that