Do you know what are jazz chants ? Jazz chants are not much well-known but are veru useful. I am going to tell more about them.

Jazz chants are created by Carolyn Graham. She is a musician and a teacher. She lives in New York city and a jazz fan so one day she decided to created jazz chants for teach English so, what are jazz chants?

Jazz chants are a rhythmic expression to speak English. Maybe it sound as a difficult technique for learn English but it is very easy because it is a simple way to understand English expressions, vocabulary, structures….

Jazz chants have a specific characteristic that are essentials :

–  have to be simples

– have to use everyday vocabulary

– have to include four times

Also as all methodologies, jazz chants have advantagies and disadvantagies and in this case, the advantagies are more than the disadvantagies.

The advantagies are that are everyday vocabulary or everyday grammar are structures so this is very useful because with this things you can hold your own in a situation that you have to speak in a foreign language. Other advantage is that you can use them in every classroom or in every place because it is not necessary any equipment so you can go everyway with your jazz chants and you can show them where ever  you want and more important is that you do not have class limit so this point is very influential because you can use jazz chants in a small classroom with a few number of children or you can use them in a big speech with hundreds of people that can follow you the rhythm and sing at the same time that you because are very quicky to learn. In addition, you can use any topic related with vocabulary or some grammar structure so jazz chants have a big range of possibilities, a infinite chances a

The bad way are the disadvantagies but I can find only two, jazz chants only use spoken English and you can use an appropiate rhythm that maybe it is a difficult point to carry out.

The most important point is that you can create your own jazz chants and it is very easy to do it following these steps :

1- You have to pick a topic

2- Write down 10 words

3- separate the words by syllabes

4- You´re ready

This week we have the opportunity to create our jazz chants in class and it was a very funny activity that I recomend you to do it.