Lesson Five – Talking and Chatting

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and model how to combine a range of different high and low pitched sounds to represent some of the conversations that might be made between people in a city.

The class can explain and illustrate how to play percussion instruments to produce a range of sounds at different pitches to match how people might talk.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and model how to combine a range of different high and low pitched sounds to represent some of the conversations that might be made between people in a city

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify if different sounds made by people produce high or low pitched sounds and a set of cards to select and produce some high and low pitched sounds to match different events that might occur in a city location.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to combine high and low pitched sounds to represent conversations made between people in a city.

This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to practise describing, composing and playing different sounds using high and low pitches to represent vehicles and locations as part of a city location. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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