Music in the classroom

Listening to authentic foreign music in the classroom can be challenging because of students' pre-conceived ideas due to a lack of exposure. However, it can be very successful when linked to specific activities-drilling of a specific structure or games- or to introduce a topic with an element of target-language culture.

http://fr.launch.yahoo.com/ has lots of video clips in French (mentioned by Helen Myers on Linguanet)

http://www.paroles-de-chansons.com/ and http://www.paroles.net/

can help setting up activities by providing the lyrics for thousands of old and new songs in French.

http://www.planetadeletras.com/ and http://www.letras.com/ are similar song lyrics sites in Spanish