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Miss Hotty’s Teaching Notes 4: Bogor EduCARE Hip Hop Nation

February 14, 2010 at 4:17 am (Miss Hotty's Notes)

The theme for this third meeting with James was Music. For the first, he asked the students their favorite type of music. He listed the types on the whiteboard and added some more. There were pop, classical, rock, jazz, folk, punk rock, reggae, R&B, ska, disco, heavy metal, hip hop, drum and bass, noise, country and Western trance, dangdut, and keroncong (both are Indonesian music types).

Then, James explained about rhyming. The example was me, he, she, be, bee, free, tree, knee, three, see, Lee, etc. From the rhyme, he asked the students to make a sentence. It was interesting although they felt difficult doing that. At least the students wanted to try. Another example of rhyming was mat, hat, fat, cat, sat, that, flat, bat, rat, chat, and brat.
The main activity with this theme was making a rhyme. The students were divided into six groups. Each consisted of five persons. They were asked to create a lyric with the same rhyme at the end of each lyric. After that, they were to perform it in front of the others. In this case, the students were hip hop actresses. So they should sing their lyric using hip hop style.

Below is one of the lyrics the students made. It was from Flava Flavour group.

We are Flava Flavour …
We have a power on our cover …
We are glamor and you are horror …
I look around …
Sit on the ground …
Then eat popcorn …
And hear a sound …
It’s very round …
Finally go down …
In the evening …
I am meeting …
And then sleeping …
And I’m dreaming …
A girl crying …
She wants to play bowling …
When I have a date …
I come late …
My boy is upset …
Then we separate …
I am so sad …
And that is my fate …

‘Practice makes perfect.’ By doing different activities every week, we can make our English perfect, well at least.