Down on the Farm

This is what you get with your Down on the Farm e-book:

• A complete teaching actions video of Down on the Farm. Quickly learn the song and its actions before bringing it to your classes.
• Three MP3 files of Down on the Farm: two guide-voice versions (Goodger and child voice) and the music-only, karaoke version to check learning and to play for performances and events.
• A song sheet (with guitar chords for those who strum)
• A set of  5 illustrated worksheets and classroom activities to recycle the contents of the song in a variety of contexts. You can photocopy and print them or project them on an electronic whiteboard.
• Teacher’s Notes and Lesson Plans: suggestions on how to use the FunSongs Method and adapt the activities.

Vocabulary and language

You can practise and learn these words in Down on the Farm:

Nouns: Farm, time, cows, line, hands, milk, day, cream, butter, yoghurt, way, farmers, fields, haym crops, animals.
Verbs:   to be, to wait, to freeze, to squeeze, to feel, to give, to start, to help, to sing, to learn, to work.
Adjectives:  Freezing, fine, wide.

Teach Down on the Farm to:

• Present and practise words related to farming and agriculture.
• Introduce a CLIL perspective: teaching basic notions of domestic science and nature
• Provide an action song which can be performed at school concerts and events.

Samples files

E-book cover page

Sample Worksheet