Gen Z’s penchant for sad music

Megan | Sep 25, 2024

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• read and discuss an article about Gen Z’s preference for sad music;
• learn vocabulary for describing sad music and listener behaviour;
• talk about changes in music trends in recent years.

With this lesson, students read and discuss an article about Gen Z’s preference for sad music. They discuss the titles of popular Spotify playlists and learn the vocabulary to describe sad music and listener behaviours (e.g. melancholy lyrics, wallow). They discuss sad songs they know, analyse comments, and share opinions. They talk about changing music trends, answer questions, and complete statements with their own ideas.

ACTIVITIES

This CRC lesson asks students to read and discuss an article about Gen Z’s preference for sad music. The lesson begins with a warm up in which students look at the names of popular Spotify playlists (e.g. ‘Sad Girl Summer’, ‘Comforting Sad Mix’) and discuss related questions. Next, they do a vocabulary exercise in which they complete sentences about listener behaviour with words and phrases to describe sad music (e.g. resonate with, stripped-back sound). Then, they practise the vocabulary further by thinking of specific songs the words and phrases apply to. After that, they analyse some comments about Gen Z’s preference for sad music and give their own opinion. Following that, they read about some changes in music trends (e.g. song length, genre popularity) and answer some questions about the information. Lastly, students complete statements related to music with their own ideas.

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