Charming Chants: Cinderella and Lady Tremaine

This week we, my partner Buse and I, prepared a podcast using Vocaroo – Online voice recorder. First, we chose our characters: Cinderella and Lady Tremaine, also known as the Wicked Stepmother. Then, we wrote the chant –which you can find below- and finally sang and recorded it. Our main purpose in doing so was to create an example for our students who will also experience writing and singing chants.

Before we explain the task, we will introduce the class chants along with other types of poems. In the task we created, we want the students to express their own ideas, feelings and opinions using new vocabulary. We chose chants instead of a paragraph since they will be required to write paragraphs in many occasions for the rest of their lives! In addition, they will need to find words which rhyme and use at least three antonym pairs, as we did in the example (question-answer, always-never, and black and white), while writing their chants.

In the task we prepared, we ask the students to decide on their favorite cartoon character, take a photo with her/him if possible (if not, a photo with the toy of the character is also fine or acceptable), imagine the character’s past and write a chant with 5-6 lines about a specific instance of that past. Afterwards, each student will sing it, record it and send the photo and the chant to us via e-mail. We are thinking about bringing all of them together and creating a totally different story, so they will be able to listen to each other’ stories as well. Our students do not know this little surprise we are planning yet. For now, we are looking forward to listening to their podcasts!

While preparing this task, we kept in mind the difficulties of creating a podcast. Although we did not face any, the students may have some technical problems such as connection, microphone, or recording problems. Fortunately, we have a computer lab at school so if the students cannot succeed at home, they can always try at school or ask for help. On the other hand, creating a podcast, they will listen to themselves, check out the pronunciation of the new vocabulary, pay attention to the word choice, and become confident about the way they sound after listening our example!

We hope our students will enjoy doing this task as much as we did and create lovely podcasts!

Cinderella and Ahu

Cinderella and Lady Tremaine

Washing, cooking, cleaning, enough!

I want to go to the ball like my sisters

Why I can’t go, why life is tough?

I can not find the true answers.

Oh my step mom is calling me again!

Why ask questions, the answers you'll never find

Yes, you're right! I am always unkind!

Go, iron our dresses, black & white just designed

Forget the ball, or whatever you have in mind!

Audio and voice recording >>