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Is it difficult for you or not?

What is your favorite English song?

Singing an English song can help us to learn English. It is a fun way.

A. SOSIAL FUNCTION OF SONGS

The social functions of song are:

a. To entertain the listeners.
b. To teach moral value through the lyrics of the songs.
c. To provide a way of managing the relationship between our public and private emotional life.
d. To express personal feeling and cultural values.
e. To give someone to not only shares their emotions with others, but also to have an emotional
connection that just can’t be experienced in any other way.

B. Genre of song/ music

Pop, rock, ballads, jazz, heavy metal, rhythm &blues, dang dut, country etc.

C. Theme : love, family, environment, war, death, friendship, heartbreak, patriotis

D. LANGUAGE FEATURES
 Imagery. It describes about feelings and emotions of the writer.

 Rhythm. It creates mood of the listener.

 Figures of speech/language :

Metaphor : compares two things that are not alike to suggest that they actually have something
in common. e.g. “Time is a thief” or “ My father is superman”
Example in song

Simile : compares two things using “like” or “as’’.