Listening
Recognizing the timbre of individual keyboard instruments. Drag the excerpt alongside the matching keyboard instrument.
Other keywords:
listening, harpsichord, piano, pipe organ, synthesizer
Official classification: Identifying Key Ideas, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory
Recognizing the timbre of individual woodwind instruments. Drag the excerpt alongside the matching woodwind instrument.
Other keywords:
listening, saxophone, recorder, bass clarinet, bassoon
Official classification: Identifying Key Ideas, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Mixed Woodwind, 3a Responding and reviewing - analyse and compare, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory
In this short animation Tim, who is rather a curious little tadpole, has a very important question. And maybe, just maybe, there’s a birthday soon on the pond. from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Birth & Birthdays, The Spoken Word, Stories, Video, Cartoon, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Audio narration by Natasha from Storynory.com. Aladdin’s Lamp is packed with oriental mystique - not one, but two genies, wicked magicians, gold and jewels galore, a palace that is transported through thin air, a beautiful princes, and a poor boy who gets very lucky indeed.
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Open Sesame ! The famous story from Persia of how Ali Baba outwitted a band of robbers with a little help from the clever slave-girl, Morgiana. Audio narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Classic fairy tale. Audio narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Aesop’s fable of the runaway slave and the lion with a thorn in its paw. A tale story of gratitude. Narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Aesop’s fables are loved pretty much everywhere. In these four audio adaptations by Storynory a rat, grasshopper, a fox and a mouse tell their tales in their own words.
Official classification: Listening, Animals, The Spoken Word, Stories, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Unit 9 Animal Magic, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Classic fairy tale. Audio narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Classic fairy tale. Audio narrated by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Fairy Tales, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tongue Twister. Audio by Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Tongue Twisters, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tongue Twister, audio by Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Tongue Twisters, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tongue Twister, audio by Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Tongue Twisters, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 15 Ongoing Skills, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
A dinosaur poem by Giles Paley-Phillips and domestic drama in The Bump in the Rug. Audio narrated by Natasha from storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Animals, Poetry, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 21 Who Knows, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Two poems. Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. No Rudolf but Santa’s Reindeer Dasha, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen feature. Audio narration by Natasha from storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, Christmas, Poetry, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Unit 21 Who Knows, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Greek Myth featuring Odysseus. Audio narration by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, The Spoken Word, Stories, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Myths & Legends, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Greek Myth; how Odysseus and his men found themselves trapped in the cave of the terrifying Cyclops, the one-eyed giant. Audio narration by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, The Spoken Word, Stories, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Myths & Legends, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Greek myth; the story of the Helen of Troy, the “face that launched a thousand ships”. Audio narration by Natasha from Storynory.com
Official classification: Listening, The Spoken Word, Stories, Audio, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Myths & Legends, Curriculum support, Storynory.com
Tracks 9 and 10 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. English sacred music of the late Middle Ages from Amon Ra album 'Worcester Fragments' performed by The Orlando Consort (1'32") (1'37") Main features: early church music, ostinato, drone. These two extracts are sung by unaccompanied male voices. The Track Explorer has four learning tracks focusing on the titles of the extracts, vocal texture, description of texture and the lowest part.
Official classification: Listening, Rounds , The Middle Ages, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Early Music, Polyphony, Unison, Drone, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Pupils can listen separately to each of the four melodic phrases from the Drunken Sailor. Then they can place them in order to recreate the piece (or place in their own order to create a new piece). Excellent exercise for KS1 or KS2 pupils for understanding pitch, shape and phrasing. See also 'Track 03 What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor' track explorer for prior listening.
Official classification: Listening, Graphical Notation, Arranging, Pitch, Rounds , Melody, Interactive Activities, Puzzle, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, List Sequencer, Melody