Rainbow Rainbow

This is what you get with your Rainbow Rainbow action song e-book:

• A complete teaching actions video of Rainbow Rainbow. Quickly learn the action song before teaching it to your classes.
• Two MP3 files of Rainbow Rainbow: the guide-voice version (sung by jazz singer Melissa Stott) and the music-only, karaoke version for school performances.
• A song sheet with guitar chords
• A set of  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

Rainbow Rainbow associates each colour of the rainbow with a fruit:

• Red – cherry
• Orange – orange
• Yellow – banana
• Green – apple
• Blue – plum
• Indigo – berry
• Purple -grape

As well as colour and food, the song introduces weather vocabulary. Teachers often teach Rainbow Rainbow as part of a cross-curricular CLIL project.
You can practise and learn these words in Rainbow Rainbow:

Nouns: days, sun, light, water, colour, bands, hands, cherry, fruit, orange, lunch, banana, snack, garden, apple, plate, plum, cake, berry, taste, grape, vine, color, colors, colour, colours.
Verbs:   to be, to grow, to shine, to rain, to combine, to make, to reach out, to touch, to come, to go, to put, to wait, to bake, to hang.
Adjectives:  magic, complete, tasty, red, green blue, indigo, black, yellow, orange, purple,  fine

Teach Rainbow Rainbow to:

• Present and practise words related to the the colours of the rainbow.
• Present and teach common fruits.
• Introduce the theme of growth in nature and the importance of water.
• Provide an action song which can be performed at school concerts and events.

Sample files and video

Songsheet sample (+guitar chords)

Teaching actions video

Worksheet 6 – The weather game

Teacher’s Notes sample