Consolidation games

A game to get started after the Christmas break to  revise the vocabulary related to music and entertainment.

I've realized recently that one of the main challenges for an English teacher is to make  students to learn words and use them properly.

It's much easier to teach grammar...but words? After all,  in some situations, words are more important than grammar to be understood.

As a result, over the last months I've been trying to do lessons where the center of interest or of the activity done is vocabulary.

However ...there's a problem.... what about the students' involvement and their easily getting bored?

So yesterday I divided the class into teams and I dictated the students the definitions of some of the words related to music and entertainment they should know, as we have paid a particular attention on them recently.

There's no need to say that I realized that I had taken lots of things for granted. It wasn't so easy to write the right words and in some cases to write the words using the right spelling.
Anyway, while doing the activity, time flew off quickly and students had a good time.

These are the definitions I dictated:

1. A person who performs music in a public place to get money from people walking past (Busker)
2. to make a Cd or a movie available for people to buy or see (Release)
3. The people who sit and watch a performance at a theatre, cinema... (Audience)
4. the words of a song (Lyrics)
5. The raised area in a theatre where actors perform (Stage)
6. In a gradual, regular rate (Steadily)
7. A natural ability to do something (Talent)
8. A large musical instrument with strings inside and black and white bars that produce sounds when you press them (Piano)
9. To copy computer programs, music or other information electronically using the Internet (Download)
10. An informal word to refer to a performance of pop or rock music (Gig)
11. A collection of songs (Album)
12. A person whose job is to find talented musicians and singers (Talent Scout)
13. A gig or a concert in front of an audience (Performance)
14. A metal musical instrument that you play by blowing into it and pressing buttons to make different notes (Trumpet)