Using "These are the Daves I Know" to teach Articles to Refer to Groups

(TESOL Materials--Articles to Refer to Groups, Using Songs to Illustrate Grammar Points)

Picture: These are Daves

Video: These are the Daves I Know

Recently, when teaching articles to refer to groups, I used the song "The Daves I Know" (W) from the kids in the hall.

First, I showed the students a picture of famous Daves.  I told them "These are Daves".  I then asked them which Daves they knew.  (In my case, because I was teaching in Vietnam, my students knew almost none of the famous Daves.  But it still generated some discussion.)

I then told them that I would like to tell them about the Daves that I knew, and I played the song.

Afterwards, I wrote on the white board:

These are Daves.

These are the Daves I know.

...and I asked the students to try to guess what the difference in the grammar was.  

Kids in the Hall: The Daves I Know