LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERSTOP HITS
Feb. 14, 2022
Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)
Type of language: English for Teenagers
Tags: Sound and Music; Article Based; Vocabulary and Grammar; Pronouns; 13-15 Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old
Publication date: 02/14/2022
The topic of this lesson is music. Students will read a blog about the importance of listening to an album rather than just an individual song from an artist. Students learn level-appropriate vocabulary to talk about music. They will listen to four teenagers talking about their favorite albums and artists and practice dealing with vocabulary in context. (by Richard Moon)
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
Jade (UK): I’m a massive fan of Taylor Swift. I have all her albums and I just love everything that she does. She started off doing country music, and I love that type of music more than anything else, even though some of my friends say that it’s a bit slow and depressing. But she does a lot of pop, and most of her most famous stuff is pop music. Her best album, in my opinion, is called 1989, and that has loads of great tracks on it. The ones I like best are called Blank Space and Bad Blood, which has the rapper Kendrick Lamar on it. Shake it off is also on this album, and that’s an amazing song to dance to with a fast beat.
Nico (US): My favorite kind of music is pop or rock, and that’s why I love Imagine Dragons. I suppose you could call it pop-rock or maybe even stadium rock! I went to a gig a few months ago, and seeing them live was out of this world! This group’s songs are awesome, and some of them are so easy to remember that I find myself singing along to the tune all the time. The tracks I like most are called Believer and Thunder, and they’re both on the same album. It’s called Evolve, and I think it was released in 2017, but I still play it all the time when I want some music to sing to.
Leila (US): I love all genres of music; pop, rock, country; I even like listening to more traditional music and classical when I’m doing my homework. But when it comes to bands, I totally have a favorite, and that’s because I’m a huge fan of K-pop. The group I love more than any other is BTS. They’ve done some great songs in English like Dynamite and Butter, which were both enormous hits, but my fave is Spring Day, and that’s in Korean, so the lyrics aren’t that important! It’s on the album You Never Walk Alone.
Alfie (UK): I’m a big hip-hop fan, and my number-one act is Kanye West, who is probably the best rapper since, I don’t know, ever! I love old-school rappers like Eminem, Dr. Dre, and Tu-Pac, but Kanye is the man, and it’s not just hip-hop; there’s R&B in there as well, you know. If I had to select his best album, it’d be Graduation which came out in 2010 because it combines hip-hop with house music, which I really like, but my favorite track of his is called All of the Lights, which is more of a drum ‘n’ bass track and has loads of famous musicians on it – Rihanna sings the chorus.
Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/english-for-teenagers/top-hits. Accessed on November 9, 2026. LinguaHouse.com © 2008–2026. All rights reserved.
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