JINGLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
For each commercial play the audio only for the students and have them guess:
Next have the students watch the commercials and analyze the audio with the video. Compare jingles that are familiar to ones that are unfamiliar. For information on ear worms you can see the Jingles and advertising songs lesson here.
- The country that the commercial is from
- the genre of product
- and if they can guess it the products name
Next have the students watch the commercials and analyze the audio with the video. Compare jingles that are familiar to ones that are unfamiliar. For information on ear worms you can see the Jingles and advertising songs lesson here.
With a partner
Please find a commercial from another country and post it here. Please do not do the same country as another group.
After you find this commercial please do the following on your websites:
After you find this commercial please do the following on your websites:
- Explain how you found this commercial? What did you type to find it?
- What are the types of sounds used in this commercial? for example: narrator, boing sound, screaming, laughing, piano. If you need vocab help, here is a website that has vocabulary for describing sounds.
- Do you think the product the commercial is selling is clear from the jingle alone, so if you only hear the jingle without seeing the commercial. why or why not?
- How long is the commercial?
- How long is the jingle? Also, if you can answer this--how many notes is it?
- Do you think this jingle is well known in the country it was made for? Why do you think this?
- Do you think this jingle would work for other countries audiences? Why or why not?
This one is a product imported from Japan but the jingle will still throw off students.
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