“Kau terindah kan selalu terindah
Aku bisa apa 'tuk memilikimu
Kau terindah 'kan selalu terindah
Harus bagaimana ku mengungkapkannya
Kau pemilik hatiku” (Armada Band)
Singing is an enjoyable and nice activity. We may sing a song in order to eliminate our boredom and sometimes to motivate us. In relation with English lesson, we sometimes use a song as media. But in this case, it is not used as a media but we use it to release our student’s bad feeling and motivate them during English lesson.
This short paper describes about a popular Indonesian pop song which are modified for English language learning. It is not used for explaining English lesson but purely for motivating our students when their concentration is broken. As teacher, we often find When the lesson goes, our students feel so tired, hungry and unmotivated sometimes. So, we may invite them to sing a song together. The selected song I recommend is a popular song in Indonesia today. It is “Kau Pemilik Hatiku” which is sung by Armada Band.
This song is very popular song in Indonesia. Armada Band sings it very well. I am sure that Indonesian know it well, both children and adult. So, here in my paper, I want to give my own experience in teaching English as second language by using this song. I motivate my students by singing together this song. Not the real song but first I must change the lyrics into English, my own lyrics. I always sing this song together with my students before the lesson begun or even they feel unmotivated during English lesson. The following is an explanation about it.
As stated in the opening of this paper, I choose “Kau Pemilik Hatiku” song to discuss. Now I write my own lyrics into English. Look at the following explanation!
The first real lyrics are …
“Lihat ku disini
Kau buat ku menangis
Tak ingin menyerah
Tapi tak menyerah
Mencoba lupakan
Tapi ku bertahan”
Then I match my own lyric with the rhythm of this song. Here it is:
“Oh my friends, Let you know
Do you know and let you know
Everything will be right
Because you do the right
You make your parents proud
And make all people proud”
The second real lyrics (reff) are …
“Kau terindah kan selalu terindah
Aku bisa apa 'tuk memilikimu
Kau terindah 'kan selalu terindah
Harus bagaimana ku mengungkapkannya
Kau pemilik hatiku”
Then I match my own lyric with the rhythm of this song. Here it is:
“You, all my friends, everything will be fine
Because you are so fine, everything will be fine
You, all my friends, everything will be nice
Because you are so nice, everything will be nice
Everything will be, be nice”
The last real lyrics are …
“Mungkin lewat mimpi
Ku bisa 'tuk memberi
Ku ingin bahagia
Tapi tak bahagia
Ku ingin dicinta
Tapi tak dicinta”
Then I match my own lyric with the rhythm of this song. Here it is:
“Someday you’ll understand
Today let’s be all best friends
This nice world will be fine
Everything will be fine
All people feel so fine
Because you are so fine”
This song I use to motivate my students and refresh their condition, emotion in following English class. By singing this song together with all students, they will be happy and fresh. They will be motivated and never be afraid again to study English especially speaking. I hope the Indonesian English teachers follow my way.. We may use this song for junior and senior high school students, college or university students. (Level: SMP/ MTs – SMA/ MA – University/ College). The following is further information how we apply it in our classroom
Activities/ Procedure:
Before English lesson is begun, the teacher asks one of student to come forward to be the leader to sing together. In other occasion, if teacher feels uncomfortable to teach because of unmotivated students, he or she may invite all students to sing this song together.
Then, that boy/ girl says” Now, stand up please! Before we start our lesson let’s sing together. One, two, three, four …., or Well, My students let’s sing a song together. One, two, three, four …
Here is this song:
"Oh my friends, Let you know
Do you know and let you know
Everything will be right
Because you do the right
You make your parents proud
And make all people proud"
Reff:
"You, all my friends, everything will be fine
Because you are so fine, everything will be fine
You, all my friends, everything will be nice
Because you are so nice, everything will be nice
Everything will be, be nice"
"Someday you’ll understand
Today let’s be all best friends
This nice world will be fine
Everything will be fine
All people feel so fine
Because you are so fine"
back to Reff .
Notes:
§ In the first meeting of odd or even semester, the teacher should give this song to the students in order that they know and sing this song well.
§ This activity can be done for the whole semester or if we know that our students look boring, unmotivated or tired, we can ask them to sing this song. That’s the simple way!
§ It’s better if we raise both our hands and move it to the right and left of our head, or we clap our hands or your student sing it by playing music instrument, guitar.
Special Notes:
The writer will be very grateful if Armada band sings “Kau Pemilik Hatiku” by using his own English lyrics. It may make Armada Band become popular Band internationally. All people all around the world will recognize it as it sings this song with English lyrics. If it is true, he hopes that he will receive a commission for his lyrics. Amin3x He also hopes if one of the readers sends this article to the vocalist of Armada Band in order that he sings it.
