It's never a dull moment when allowed a glimpse inside of the mind of a grade eight Korean student. A couple weeks ago I tried a new activity in my most advanced English classes. It would turn out to benefit both teacher and students. Students would have a chance to do some "free-writing" and try to translate music into words, meanwhile, teacher would get some feedback and much needed votes SoundClash.
The following is a copy of what my grade 8 English students wrote when listening to each track. Enjoy!
Jenny
AccentToGumo
deep sea, scary, (picture of lantern fish) a piano that one key doesn't work, a song that is one octave down, mechanical, violin + mechanical, cool waves (picture of waves), weird matrix, movie
*** 3 STARS
Harpyness
frog, funny kids, joke mischief, country, violin, climbing a mountain, bagpipe, skirts Scotland, frog, jump, zig zag, game
(pictures of a bagpipe and a frog jumping)
**** 4 STARS
LemonBot
stinky, farting, mechanic, a machine that is broken. echo, weird, alien, drain, sewer (picture of a mouse, can and sewer)
LemonPhase
echo, weird, dancing, a ball bouncing (picture of a bouncing ball)
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Min-O
AccentToGumo
mysterious, aquatic, ringing, submarine, underwater, radar, classical, piano, up and down, African drum beats, rhythmical, lively, all combined, violin, chasing, dancing, searching, weird, imaginary
Harpyness
funky, funny, slow, repeating, country like, D.J. song, harmony, cool, in the long highway, with an open car listening to this music, wild west, hiphop car, childish, jumpy, glueish
LemonBot
boinky, French, electric, bouncy, repeated, weird, phone call, prank, joke, horror movie, Armageddon, devilish, joke, hooking, heeping, fade out
LemonPhase
space, funky, beat box, ringing, talking
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Kate
AccentToGumo
temple, bells, ring, in the quite temple, ghost, scary, chilly, scary, a thief came into the store
Harpyness
entered into a game place
a famous chellist is playing fusion music
stuck in a puzzle
LemonBot
talk on the phone secretly
float on the moon
old game
LemonPhase
left in the jungle
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Melissa
AccentToGumo
cool, freaky, scary, in a dripping cave
bright sunlight comes out
drum - tropical island, a feast
suddenly - cyber place, someone chasing someone
Harpyness
funny harmonica
jumping, jump-rope or bouncing a ball
playing hide and seek
alien language
colorful
I like Harpyness better because it's fun. The first one is rather scary.
LemonBot
a horror movie, bad phone calls made by that man
I don't understand what he says
he's chasing me
arghhhhhhhh
he says a weird language I can't understand
weird freaky
LemonPhase
scary texture
squeeze slightly, right now
What is he saying?
If you have saliva?
I wrote what I heard
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