Kye Kye Kule – Traditional/Tickle Tune TyphoonĪrt, Art, We Love Art! – School Art Theatre Productions Going on a Bear Hunt – Traditional/Tickle Tune Typhoon These chants and raps song lyrics are available from a variety of albums: Sonja Dunn on "The How and Why of Chanting"Įncouraging Students to Write Their Own Chants It can serve as a writing prompt, offering students the chance to write new verses.Ĭhants, raps, cheers, and poetry can be performed anywhere, even if your voice is as bad as mine! I encourage you to incorporate chanting into your lessons, and see how it builds energy for learning. ![]() It offers opportunities for repeated readings, which build fluency. It provides a change of pace and mood to improve student motivation. It can promote a sense of community, which is conducive to learning. It builds children's confidence in oral language. It provides patterns that can make learning easier. It uses rhythm and rhyme in an enjoyable way. With North Korea out, the South Korean team is now the peninsula's only chance of getting to the final in South Africa.Why am I including cheers, chants, raps, and poetry in a site about music?Ĭhanting has many of the benefits of song: Reports from Pyongyang said that fans there had cheered on the South Korean team. If you believe the official North Korean media, the support has been mutual. "Maybe that's why I can support the North Korea soccer team because it's not politics." North Korea had not played in a soccer World Cup since 1966 Image: AP "North Korea and North Korean people are different," said 27-year-old football fan Hwang Sae-Hoon. ![]() 23-year-old Bae Hye-Rae said it was easy to understand why the South Koreans had supported the North Korean team "because we are all one people". I think especially the younger generation clearly wants to cheer for North Korea and see them do well because they see them as brothers and not enemies," Lee said before the team was knocked out 7 to nil by Portugal on Monday.Īt a sports bar in Seoul, spectators had cheered on the North Korean football team as they took on Portugal before their battering. "There is still a good majority of people in Korea hoping for a unification of the two countries and this is a small step toward that, giving them support. Fans waving both a South Korean, right, and a North Korean flag, left, at the match between North Korea and Brazil Image: AP Lee added that not only the South Korean World Cup team had benefitted from the national pride but that there had been great interest in the progress of North Korea. You're supposed to do this so you do it," Lee said. "People are expected to cheer for the national team because that's what you are supposed to do, whether you like football or not, whether you like the national colors or not, whether you have national pride or not. ![]() Jason Lee, who has been covering Korean sports for several years on English-language television here, thought that Korea's Confucian collective culture had something to do with the displays of sports nationalism. Some companies have even been asking their employees to wear red on game days. Rooting for the national team during the World Cup is practically a patriotic duty here. "Don't all countries show as much passion for the football team as we do?" she asked.īut 63-year-old Kim Jae Gi thought Korean fans outdid other fans: "Of course other countries show passion too, but I think we take it up a notch, we have a lot of pride," he said. The crowd has shouted Tae Han Min Guk (Korea in Korean) in unison each time a player has charged towards the opposing team's goal.ĭressed in a red T-shirt and wearing flashing devil's horns, 17-year-old Kang Eun Ji did not think South Korean football fans were very different from others. South Korean soccer fans are not afraid to show their emotion Image: AP The South Koreans are the Taeguk Warriors but to their fans they are known as the Red Devils.Įach time South Korea have played, thousands have packed Seoul's World Cup stadium to watch a broadcast of the match, forming a sea of red over the grandstands. For instance, the squad from Japan is known as the Blue Samurai and the Cameroonians go by the Indomitable Lions. ![]() Many of this year's World Cup teams have nicknames.
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