Let's watch a short video to learn how the voice works. We will join in and explore our own voices!

Around the world, there are many different ways the voice is used through all of the different languages that people speak. In South Africa, there is a language called Xhosa which uses percussive sounds including clicks. Let's listen to an amazing singer from South Africa called Miriam Makeba:

Let's explore some vocal sounds that we can make in the classroom. We will use a resource called The Front Door to help us.

Let's go to The Front Door and see if we can make the sounds of each of the symbols. Before we listen to any sounds we will first try to make the sounds of the doorbells with our voices! We will then play a listening game by listening to the symbols in a sequence.

Now let's try to use these sounds and symbols in a performance for the whole class. We will divide the class into four colour groups and we will ask volunteers to come up to the whiteboard and point to different symbols. Each group must then make their sound!

Let's go to The Front Door resource and play the "conductor at the whiteboard" game.

There are many ways of playing this game - see if you can come up with different ideas to make it more challenging.

We could also make up our own vocal sounds and symbols and draw them on A4 sheets!