1、音乐英语音乐是积聚灵感、催发情感、激活想象的艺术，它作为素质教育的重要内容和实施美育的主要途径，不仅能陶冶情操、提高素养。而且有助于开发智力，特别是在激活学生创新潜能方面有着十分重要的作用。美国现代心理学家布鲁姆指出：“学习最好的刺激乃是对学习材料的发生兴趣。”这说明兴趣是学习的基础。一音乐在英语教学中的作用；国外对大脑的研究表明，音乐的作用有三个：（1）、帮助你放松；（2）、激活右脑接收信息；（3）、帮助你将信息移入长期记忆库中。在英语课堂教学中，教师如能在适当的时恰当地使用音乐，不仅可以使教与学变得轻松快乐，还可使教学效率大幅度提高。在英语教学中，我较多地使用了音乐手段。由于语感未到位，学
2、生的英语语音、语调经常出问题，有些同学因害怕被嘲笑而不敢开口。唱英文歌曲能明显帮助学生体会语音、语调，在说唱中寻找感觉。歌唱使课堂教学变得生动活泼。学会了英文歌曲，课下一定会自觉地哼唱，这无疑增加了“用”英语的机会。久而久之，语感就出来了。1、利用音乐实现“状态变化”。学生们常常有这样的体验，一堂课开始时难以无法集中精力或进入状态，或是脑子里还在思考上一堂课的内容。老师如不采取一定的措施把学生“唤醒”，使之尽早进入状态，势必影响到教学效果。有经验的教师常利用课前几分钟讲个笑话，做个游戏，课前演讲等形式来组织教学，使学生尽快进入状态。我则常常采取听音乐的做法。听一曲轻松优美的音乐，如钢琴曲、小提
3、琴曲、民族乐曲或英语歌曲，以深呼吸或放松运动，学生就会很快地从下课或上堂课的兴奋状态中松弛下来，分散的思想得以驱除，大脑处于“放松性警觉”（relaxed alertness）状态中，新的语言信息就能很自然地、轻松地进入大脑。2、 配乐朗诵。外国的许多研究发现，当我们的大脑处于“放松性警觉”状态中时，我们能更有效地接收信息。我们的大脑分成左右两部分。语言由左脑控制，音乐由右脑控制。当左右大脑被同时调动起来时，学习就变得轻松而有效。例如，当我们听一首歌时，左脑会处理歌词，右脑会处理旋律。因此，我们会轻而易举地学会流行歌词。这是因左脑和右脑教动员起来了，边缘系统中大脑的情感中心也加入了。配乐朗诵可
4、用在学习新内容或复习巩固中。当学生在音乐的背景下倾听老师朗诵一篇文章，他们一方面在音乐的作用下，神经很放松，易于接收新信息；另一方面会把音乐和语言结合起来，就像电影那样。这样文章的信息内容就会很自然而又轻松地“飘”进学生的“潜意识”里。香港中文大学的一项研究结果表明，学习音乐可以增加语言的记忆力。一些音乐的节奏与人脑记忆信息的脑电波一致，当音乐配以文字，音乐便能帮助记住信息的内容。英文歌词有着诗一般的语言，文字简洁优美，琅琅上口，唱英文歌曲、朗诵英文歌词比背诵一段英文文字来得容易些。在说唱英文歌曲时，学生不仅能很好地模仿语音强弱，提高发音准确性，而且能有效地提高语音听辨能力。英文说唱经常有连读
5、、弱读、发音变形等情况。这种情况与话语中的连读、语调等有相似的地方，只是话语中没那么夸张。用英文说唱比较夸张的连读、弱读、发音变形训练学生，学生能比较快地克服英语中不同语速、口音等带来的理解困难，善于抓主要单词、关键单词，忽略次要的非关键的语音，并结合语气、语境和肢体语言理解谈话内容。这也许是音乐有利于英语学习最突出的地方之一。英文歌曲，不仅使课堂变得丰富多彩，而且提供了一种非常容易融进去的“情景”。3、 利用音乐活跃课堂。学生的注意力不可能持续很久。如果教师一言堂，或是让学生做大量机械性操练，那么学生很快就会厌倦，继而分散精力。听听音乐，唱唱英语歌，能使学生紧张的思维得到放松，以一种崭新的状
6、态进入下一环节的学习。此外，英语是一门实践性很强的课程，课堂上营造轻松的气氛有助于调动学生参与课堂活动的积极性。我常把英文歌曲带进课堂，在课前或上课过程中让学生听，这样做学生喜欢，也有助于组织教学。二音乐经典英文曲类： Edelweiss， Auld Lang Syne， Red River Valley, Jingle Bell, Do， Re, Me;通俗歌曲类： Sailing,；Say You, Say Me,；Yesterday Once More；Right Here Waiting for You；Unchained Melody.这些歌曲的特点是知名度广，旋律优美，朗朗上口。此
7、外，还结合潮流教唱一些流行歌曲，如泰坦尼克号主题歌 My Heart Will Go On，亚运会主题歌 Hand In Hand，狮子王主题歌及风中奇缘的主题歌 Colors Of The Wind 等。将音乐融入英语教学不仅是艺术与教育结合的一种新方式，更是教与学的一种快乐体验和美的享受。、三.附录Country Road Take Me Home歌手: John Denver almost heaven west Virginiablue ridge mountains Shenandoah riverlife is old there older than the treesyoung
8、er than the mountainsgrowing like a breezecountry roads take me hometo the place I belongwest Virginia mountain mommatake me home country roadsall my memories gather round herminers lady stranger to blue waterdark and dusty painted on the skymisty taste of moon shinetear drops in my eyesI hear her v
9、oice in the morning hours she calls meradio reminds me of my home far awaydriving down the road I get a feeling that I shouldhave been home yesterdayyesterdaycountry roads take me hometo the place I belongwest Virginia mountain mammatake me home country roadstake me home country roadstake me home co
10、untry roadsDo，Re, MeLets start at the very beginningA very good place to startWhen you read you begin with A-B-CWhen you sing you begin with do-re-miDo-re-miDo-re-miThe first three notes just happen to beDo-re-miDo-re-mi-fa-so-la-tiDoe-a deer, a female deerRay-a drop of golden sunMe-a name I call my
11、selfFar-a long, long way to runSew-a needle pulling threadLa-a note to follow SewTea-a drink with jam and breadThat will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do. So-do!My Heart Will Go On歌手: celion dion every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you that is how I know you go on far acr
12、oss the distance and the spaces between us you have come to show you go on near far whenever you are I believe that the heart does go on once more you open the door and youre here in my heart and my heart will go on and on love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime and never let go till were
13、 one love was when I loved you one true time I hold you in my life well always go on near far whenever you are I believe that the heart does go on once more you open the door and youre here in my heart and my heart will go on and on there is some love that will not go away youre here there is nothin
14、g I fear and I know that my heart will go on well stay forever this way you are safe in my heart and my heart will go on and onEdelweiss-The Sound of MusicArtist : Julie Andrews Edelweiss ，EdelweissEvery morning you greet meSmall and whiteClean and brightYou look happy to meet me*Blossom of snow may
15、 you bloom and growBloom and grow foreverEdelweiss， EdelweissBless my homeland forever 雪绒花: 雪绒花，雪绒花，每天清晨迎接我。小而白，纯又美，总很高兴遇见我。雪似的花都朵深情开放。愿永远鲜艳芬芳。雪绒花，雪绒花，为我祖国歌唱吧。Auld Lang Syne(友谊地久天长)歌手: leo sayer (魂断蓝桥 Waterloon bridge -友谊地久天长)should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind?should auld a
16、cquaintance be forgot,for the sake of auld lang syne.if you ever change your mind,but I living, living me behind,oh bring it to me, bring me your sweet loving,bring it home to me.bring it home to me.yeah yeah *darling you know I laughed when you left,but now I know that I only hurt myself.please bri
17、ng it to me, bring your sweet sweet love,bring it home to me, bring it home to me.*for auld lang syne my dear,for auld lang syne,well take a cup of kindness yet for the sake of auld lang syne.Red River Valley歌手: arlo guthrie from this valley they say you are goingwe will miss your bright eyes and sw
18、eet smilefor they say you are taking the sunshine,that has brightened our path for a while.wont you think of the valley youre leaving,oh how lonely and sad it will be,and just think of the heart that youre breaking,and the pain that youre leaving with e and sit by my side if you love me.do not haste
19、n to bid me adieu,but remember the red river valleyand the cowboy has loved you so trueJingle Bellsdashing through the snow on a one-horse open sleigh over the fields we go laughing all the way bells on bob-tail ring making spirits bright what fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight jingle bells, jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh jingle bells, jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh
