Teaching the Song "You Raise Me Up"

Today I taught two classes the song "You Raise Me Up." In Class 311, since they have sufficient time, on the handout, I left the refrain part of the song blank. The students had to listen and write down the refrain, which repeated three times. After checking if they got the right words, we sang the song together. In Class 301, because there were only 3 minutes left after we discussed the quiz, their compositions and an article, I just let them sing along with the video.

We finished discussing the story "The Girl in the Fifth Row" this week. In the story, the girl Liani kind of raised the writer Leo up by paying utmost attention to him and helping him regain confidence on his first day of teaching. That was why I chose this song.

The following are two videos of the song with the lyrics from YouTube, the first one sung by Joshn Groban and the other by Westlife.  You might like ot make a comparison between them.  There is an MTV version performed by Westlife; however, embedding is not allowed.  Just visit the website http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1_MydgRFZw&feature=related and enjoy it.