T2W4

STRUCTURE II

What you need:

• Music book (blue)
• Pencil case
• Tho Tho Naai Kutty PowerPoint (given to you)

Objectives:

• Sing Tho Tho Naai Kutty and Enjit Enjit Semut with their accompanying games
• Analyse Tho Tho Naai Kutty's structure as ABAB
• Play structure games in groups 

Experience & Concept

Tho Tho Naai Kutty

• Pupils watch MTV of Tho Tho Naai Kutty (known henceforth as Tho Tho) and guess the animal (Answer: Dog).

• Pupils recite Tho Tho with actions (see PowerPoint for transcription).
• Pupils sing Tho Tho with actions (e.g. hopping and running action for 'hop and run, puppy', etc.).
• Divide the class into two big groups. The first big group will sing Tho Tho with actions; the second group will bark in rhythm (e.g. dotted quaver + semiquaver + a crochet) at the '4-count rest' bars to imitate a dog.

Application I

Tho Tho Naai Kutty (Structure)

• In colour groups, decide who is A and who is B, based on commonalities (e.g. boys vs girls, bespectacled vs non-bespectacled).
• Each group to select a percussion instrument (e.g. A selects castanets, B selects guiros).

• Perform the song in this order:
  1. Recite
  2. Recite and play rhythm on percussion instruments
  3. Sing and play rhythm on percussion instruments

Application II

Enjit Enjit Semut

• Watch the MTV and guess the animal (Answer: Ant).
• Find out the meaning of the song (see PowerPoint).
• Play a game
  - Sit in a circle in your colour groups.
  - Pinch your thumb and index finger together.
  - Stretch out your right hand in the middle. Your pinched fingers should rest on the back of your friend’s hand, one on top of the other, like a stacko game.
  - Move your hand to the top of the stack in steady beat to the beat of the song.
  - The last hand on the top wins!
• Sing with actions.

• Analyse and identify the structure of the song (Answer: ABAB).