Ken Lee on Bulgarian Music Idol

Here's a YouTube video my son sent me that might be interesting to watch in class with language learners -- apart from anything else as Music Idol and its equivalents are still popular shows and will thus lead to discussion.

Our first reaction is perhaps to laugh, but as language teachers I don't think we should laugh at people having difficulty pronouncing English correctly. But I think you'll find that our own language learners react in different ways to it -- which is great for discussion.

With this and virtually all videos on YouTube you can also often exploit both the comments (as text) and the "reactions", i.e. other videos other users post in response. In this case, one of the "reactions" is Mariah Carey's response to seeing the Bulgarian version of a song she helped make famous (and predicting what her response will be would make a good activity).

You've also obviously got the lyrics to exploit and searching for whatever they can find out about the Bulgarian singer, Valentina Hasan, might make the basis of an interesting webquest.