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Lesson One – World Music

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to listen and respond to different musical styles from around the world that can represent cultures from a range of countries and locations.
The class can identify and define special vocabulary words that can be used to describe examples of music from different countries around world performed on different instruments.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to listen and respond to different musical styles from around the world that can represent cultures from a range of countries and locations
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify and describe some of the sounds that can be made by different instruments and a vocabulary bank to select and use special words to describe sounds made when playing different instruments.
The interactive presentation gets the children to discuss some of the sounds that can be made by playing different instruments that are used in a range of countries and locations around the world.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to investigate the style and structure of different compositions by a famous musician and create sounds to represent a particular place or landscape. There are teaching activities for shared learning, activity worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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