MUSIC: ‘LISTEN ALL AROUND’ SONG
PRESENTER: Listen – what can you hear?
FX: FIRE
CHILDREN: I can hear fire!
PRESENTER: Listen – what can you hear?
FX: FIRE ENGINE SIREN / ARRIVING
CHILDREN: I can hear a fire engine / Woo! Woo!
PRESENTER: Listen – what can you hear?
FX: WATER SPRAYED ON FIRE
CHILDREN: I can hear water. / Putting out the fire!
PRESENTER: Whose job is to put out a fire?
CHILDREN: A fire-fighter! / The fire brigade!
MUSIC: LINK
PRESENTER: Listen – what can you hear?
FX: HAMMERING
CHILDREN: Someone banging / With a hammer!
PRESENTER: Listen – what can you hear?
FX: SAWING
CHILDREN: Someone sawing!
PRESENTER: Listen again – what can you hear?
FX: DRILLING
CHILDREN: I think it’s someone drilling!
PRESENTER: Hammering, sawing and drilling. Where do you think we are?
FX: BUILDING SITE
CHILDREN: With some builders! / On a building site!
MUSIC: LINK
PRESENTER: Listen again. What can you hear?
FX: CHOPPING WITH A KNIFE
CHILDREN: Someone chopping. / With a knife!
PRESENTER: Listen again. What can you hear?
FX: WHISKING IN A BOWL
CHILDREN: Someone stirring.
PRESENTER: Listen again. What can you hear?
FX: FRYING IN A PAN
CHILDREN: Something frying. / Like an egg!
PRESENTER: Chopping, stirring, frying. Who makes sounds like these when they’re working?
CHILDREN: Someone cooking! / A cook! / A chef!
MUSIC: LINK
PRESENTER: Listen again. What can you hear?
FX: BELL
CHILDREN: A bell! / Ring-ring!
PRESENTER: Listen – what can you hear?
FX: BUS PULLING UP AND DOORS OPENING
CHILDREN: I can hear an engine!
PRESENTER: Listen again. What can you hear?
FX: PEOPLE GETTING ON/OFF
CHILDREN: It sounds like people getting on a bus.
PRESENTER: A bell ringing…the sound of the engine…people getting on and off a bus. Whose job can we hear?
CHILDREN: A bus driver! / Tickets please!
MUSIC: LINK
PRESENTER: Listen again. What can you hear?
FX: COUNTRYSIDE. BIRDS ETC.
CHILDREN: I can hear birds. / It’s outdoors. / The countryside.
PRESENTER: Listen – what can you hear?
FX: BIG COW MOO
CHILDREN: It’s a cow!
PRESENTER: Listen - what can you hear?
FX: COUNTRYSIDE WITH TRACTOR.
CHILDREN: Someone driving. / Maybe a tractor!
PRESENTER: Listen carefully – whose job do you think we’re listening to?
FX: MONTAGE OF COUNTRYSIDE, FARM ANIMALS, TRACTOR
CHILDREN: May be a farmer…/ Driving a tractor!
MUSIC: LINK
PRESENTER: Listen again. What do you hear?
FX: ROCKET BLASTING OFF
CHILDREN: It’s a rocket! / Blasting into space! / Blast off!!!
PRESENTER: Listen again. Where could we be?
FX: SPACE SOUNDS / MUSIC
PRESENTER: We’re in space! Floating around! What job might this person be doing?
CHILDREN: An astronaut. / A spaceman!
FX ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND
PRESENTER: Listen again to all the different sounds. Be ready to put your hand up when you hear a job that you’d like to do!
FX: MONTAGE: FIRE-FIGHTER / BUILDER / CHEF / BUS DRIVER / FARMER / ASTRONAUT
**PRESENTER:**The sounds of so many jobs! Listen to all the different sounds!
MUSIC: ‘LISTEN ALL AROUND’ SONG
Have fun identifying sounds and playing listening games on the theme of jobs. See the Teachers' Notes below for more information and guidance on how to use the content.
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