Lesson Plans for Songs
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ArticleSpeaking and listening: Sing the colours
This illuminating lesson plan by Lisa Dold helps young learners to understand and produce the colours, to learn the structure I can..., to sing the nursery song I Can Sing a Rainbow and to complete a listening activity based on the vocabulary.
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Children's songs: Heads, shoulders knees and toes
This is a lesson plan based on the popular children's song Heads, shoulders, knees and toes which is aimed at pre-readers under six years' old.
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Children's songs: The wheels on the bus - MP3 file
Songs for you to download and play in class, plus lots of activities and games to bring the songs alive.
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Children's songs: She'll be coming round the mountain
Song words and audio for this popular song.
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Young learner topics: Festivals - Halloween Trick-or-treat rap
An activity with accompanying audio, available at two different difficulty levels.
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Young learner topics: This is the key of the kingdom
A traditional British rhyme with accompanying audio.
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Young learner topics: I've got the whole world in my hands
A song activity with accompanying audio, available at two different difficulty levels.
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Young learner topics: The wheels on the bus
An activity with audio where students sing a song about a bus.
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Young learner topics: Don’t forget your toothbrush
A listening activity and chant to practise holiday vocabulary, times and family vocabulary, available at two difficulty levels.
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Young learner topics: The farmer wants a wife
A simple song to help students practise singing a song in English, available at two difficulty levels with an accompanying audio file.
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Young learner topics: Family chants
In this song activity with accompanying audio, students read and recite a chant about a family, then write their own chant and draw a picture to accompany it.
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Young learner topics: Five little speckled frogs
A song to practise animal vocabulary and numbers, available at two difficulty levels with an accompanying audio file.
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Children's songs: The alphabet song
Song words and audio for this popular song, plus activities to bring the song alive.
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Children's songs: Old MacDonald had a zoo
Song words and audio for this popular song, plus activities to bring the song alive.
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Children's songs: It's raining, it's pouring
Song words and audio for this popular song, plus an activity to bring the song alive.
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Children's songs: My present is a black sofa
Song words and audio for this popular song, plus activities to bring the song alive.
