MUSIC: ‘LISTEN ALL AROUND’ SONG
PRESENTER: Listen. Today we’re visiting the zoo. Hold up a finger each time you hear a different animal.
FX: MONKEY / TIGER / SEALION / DONKEY / ELEPHANT
PRESENTER: At the zoo there’s a monkey…
FX: MONKEY
CHILDREN: A monkey!
PRESENTER: A tiger…
FX: TIGER
CHILDREN: A tiger! Raargh!
PRESENTER: A sea lion…
FX SEA LION
CHILDREN: A sea lion!
PRESENTER: A donkey…
FX: DONKEY
CHILDREN: A donkey! Ee-oor!
PRESENTER: And an elephant.
FX: ELEPHANT
CHILDREN: An elephant!
PRESENTER: And there are also lots of people at the zoo…
FX: PEOPLE AT THE ZOO
PRESENTER: Can you tell what different ways the people travelled to the zoo? Listen.
FX: BICYCLE
CHILDREN: Bicycle! The people travelled by bicycle.
PRESENTER: By bicycle. And what other ways? Listen.
FX: FOOTSTEPS
CHILDREN: Walking. The people walked.
PRESENTER: By walking. And what other ways? Listen.
FX: CAR
CHILDREN: By car! The people travelled by car.
PRESENTER: By car. And the people also travelled to the zoo one other way. Can you tell what it is? Listen.
FX: TRAIN
CHILDREN: By train! The people travelled by train!
PRESENTER: The people travelled to the zoo by bicycle, by walking, by car and by train. On the way home the children talk about what they liked at the zoo. Listen very carefully…
FX: VOICES
CHILDREN: I like the tiger best. Raargh! / I like the sea lions best because they splash. / I like the donkey. Ee-oor! / The monkeys are best because they’re funny. / The elephants best because they’re big.
PRESENTER: What animals do the children like best? How many can you remember?
MUSIC: LINK
CHILDREN: The tiger! The sea lions! The donkey! The monkeys! The elephants!
FX: MUSIC
PRESENTER: Listen. What can you hear?
FX: MUSIC SEQUENCE - DRUMS / KEYBOARD / GUITAR / FLUTE
CHILDREN: Music! I can hear music.
PRESENTER: How many different instruments are playing the music? Hold up a finger each time a new instrument joins in.
FX: MUSIC SEQUENCE - AS ABOVE
PRESENTER: The instruments playing the music are a drum…
FX: MUSIC: DRUM
PRESENTER: A piano…
FX: MUSIC: PIANO
PRESENTER: A guitar…
FX: MUSIC: GUITAR
PRESENTER: And a flute…
FX: MUSIC: FLUTE
PRESENTER: The music has fast parts and slower parts. Listen again and wiggle all your fingers quickly in the fast parts…and wave your hands gently in the slower parts. Wiggle fingers quickly for fast; wave hands gently for slow. Ready?
FX: MUSIC SEQUENCE - AS ABOVE
PRESENTER: Music with different instruments. Music fast and slow. What a lotto listen to!
MUSIC: LINK
PRESENTER: Listen. Where do you think we are?
FX: SWIMMING POOL
PRESENTER: Keep listening. There’s one more sound – keep listening!
FX: SWIMMING POOL SPLASH
CHILDREN: A swimming pool! We’re at a swimming pool!
PRESENTER: We’re at a swimming pool. Can you imagine the fun, the splashing and the swimming? Now we’re somewhere else. Can you tell where we are? Listen.
FX: DIGITAL ALARM CLOCK
PRESENTER: Hmmm…I wonder. Keep listening. Keep listening!
FX: KETTLE / BOTTLE / ETC
PRESENTER: Keep listening…
FX: VOICE: ‘TIME TO GET UP!’
CHILDREN: It’s someone’s home! A house! It’s morning because the alarm went off and everybody had to get up.
PRESENTER: Everyplace has its special sounds. Sounds all around us wherever we go. And wherever you go: listen to the sounds!
MUSIC: ‘LISTEN ALL AROUND’ SONG
Have fun identifying sounds and playing listening games, including sounds at the zoo. See the Teachers' Notes below for more information and guidance on how to use the content.
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