Spanish Class Lip Dub: ‘El Mismo Sol’

These senior girls and and I became very close after four years together, and their senior year we produced this lip dub of Alvaro Soler’s ‘El Mismo Sol’.

• We completed a March Madness bracket to select the song.
• I created a Google Document so that we could collaborate. It looked kind of like the document below.
• Students selected their lyrics, moves, and props.
• We asked the bus barn to leave us a bus for 2 block periods.
• I filmed, edited the footage using Final Cut Pro, and we shared the video for the school during lunches in the commons on the big screen.
• The girls were super proud, and we have a fun memory of our time together that will last a lifetime!

Are you looking for new ideas to use your target language music, besides our classic Cloze?

• Retell the events in the song via running dictation
• Create a March Madness bracket
• Provide musical accompaniment with culturally connected instruments
• Find the mistakes in the song that don’t match the printed lyrics
• Order events using a cut-up comic strip
• Teacher facilitates PQA with the song
• Print, cut, and mix up the lyrics for ordering 
• Retell the song with a skit
• Break up the sentences to analyze
• Rap it
• Write poetry using the connected themes
• Film a lip dub
• Recreate the song or album artwork
• Create a book from the song for your FVR library
• Play 2 Truths & 1 Lie to prove comprehension
• Investigate the artists and musicians
• Create some choreography or a class dance
• Write the next verse or rewrite the lyrics
• Sing along
• Prepare a MovieTalk with the music video
• Use a song to create a vocabulary list
• Role playing
• Use it as the background song for musical chairs
• Use the song on the runway for a school fashion show
• Perform karaoke
• Use the artist and the music to connect to a cultural theme
• Tweet the artist
• Film the music video
• Guess the secret title
• Classic gap-fill/Cloze
• Express how the music makes us feel using abstract art
• Direct translation