Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Procedure
1 Introduce the melody of the song Galway Bay. Check the Appendix for a
website link to this melody. See page 148.
2 Using the sentence stems and clues on the board, ask the children to help
you construct a song about travelling to Saturn. See Box 38.
3 The children sing the song together, making sure they stress the syllables
in bold.
Box 38
Travelling to Saturn
Sentence stems
Clues
Have you ever . . . across the sky to
gazed / looked / stared
Saturn,
And seen . . . spin round in space?
What would you see on Saturn?
Have you ever watched . . . at night time,
What could you see at
And wished that you could travel to this
night time?
place? 
Journeys
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Box 39
Example songs
1 Saturn
Have you ever gazed across the sky to Saturn,
And seen the golden rings spin round in space?
Have you ever watched its icy moons at night time,
And wished that you could travel to this place?
2 Sydney
Have you ever sailed around the world to Sydney,
And seen the opera house and harbour bridge?
Have you ever ridden in a harbour ferry,
Or swum among the waves at Bondi Beach?
3 China
Have you ever sailed around the world to China,
And walked along the great wall in your boots?
Have you ever eaten rice and meat with chopsticks,
Or fed a panda bear with bamboo shoots?
Follow-up
• In groups, the children create other songs about places they would like to
visit, and perform these songs to the class. Some examples are in Box 39.
• For other songs, see Activities 1.5, 5.4, 6.7.