Reflecting instead of Just Gathering Information

Last Thursday I grouped my ESL 132 Intermediate Speaking and Listening Students with a worksheet with a chart to fill out indicating their favorite types of music and giving examples of artis in Country, Rock, Jazz, show tunes, pop, and classical. 

Work Sheet Topic:__Activity 2 (See page 3)  Favorite Types (Genres) of Music

Type	Country	Rock	Jazz	Show tunes	Pop	Classical
Artist:	Taylor Luke Bryan Dorius Rucker George Strait	Queen Lorde Cold Play Guns N'Roses Shakira Freddie Mercury	Kenny G. Kihn Water Louis Armstrong Tony Braxton	Mamma Mia Beautty and the Beast Westlife Abba, Julia Andrews	Lady Gaga M2M Justin Biher Celine Dion Michael Jackson	Bob Acri Beegees (?) Mozart Sarah Bah, Motsart, bethoven
Example:	"Princess" and "Red" "That's My Kind of Night"  "Wagon Wheel" "Easy Come, Easy Go"	"We Will Rock You" Royals "Yellow" "Don't Cry" "Wakka-Wakka" "We all the Champions"	"You're Beautiful" "It's a Party in Here" "La Vie en Rose" "Unbreak My Heart"	"Thank  you for the music" "Beauty and the Beast" "I Have a Dream" "Mama Mia"	"Born This Way" "Pretty Boys" "Someone to Love" "Because of You" & "Because You Loved Me "We Are the World"	"Sleep Away" "How deep is your love?" Serenade for strings in G major "Time to say goodbye" Opera

The filled out the chart but not by reflecting.  They simply Googled the different types on their Smartphones--something I could have done myself.  So I needed to explain that I wanted their ideas, not their information gathering from the Internet.


Anyway, this is what they found.  I left their spelling.