Music is part of the English language, even if we don't realise. (Chanting) Concentration. Concentration. Concentration, are you ready? Concentration, now beginning. Rachael. Concentration. Are you ready? Concentration now beginning. And so they've had the same words twice, first time they've stressed every syllable and then the second time they'vecondensed it already to two beats. So when they're putting a name, they have to decide which syllable they're going tostress and how they're going to fit it into the rhyme and this is of course what wedo with stress timing naturally as English speakers. Concentration. Concentration. Concentration, now beginning. Concentration, are you ready? Rachael. Stacy. (Laughing)So they have a safe structure which they produce the rhyme in, but then they have this tinybit that they have to change and they can explore stress timing within that constraint. Do you agree?Black socks never get dirty. The longer you wear them the cleaner they get. SometimesI think I should wash them but then a voice says to me don't do it. . . (Student) Yet. Sometimes I think I should wash them(Students) Sometimes I think I should wash thembut then a voice says to me don't do it yet. (Students) but then a voice says to medon't do it yet. 'Black socks' is two syllables and they have two beats. 'Never get dirty' so those twowords that you've got, 'never get dirty' that you have to condense into two beats. 'The longer you wear them'again,'the cleaner they get'. So they have these. . . they're constantly squashing words into beats. Three words, any three words. One. Two. . . Black socks never get dirty. The longer you wear them the. . (Students) I, the I! I. (Teacher) Three. Sometimes I think I should wash them but then a voice says to me don't do it yet. Okay right, now we're going to do itin four separate rounds. So you guys go. 'Black socks never get dirty. The longer you wear them the cleaner they get'. 'Black socks' but you keep singing!(All together). . . the cleaner they get. Sometimes I think I should wash them but then a voice says to me don't do it yet. There are four different things being said in the classroom at that time. Everybody stillhas the same beat and so what is really important is that beat that keeps everybody together. (Rounds) Sometimes I think I should wash them but then a voice says to me don't do it yet. And it can be quite powerful and exciting, the way it sounds can be really amazing andyet, at the same time, you're giving them this practice that's fundamental especiallyfor Chinese speakers who don't have that stress timing. It's, like it's really important practiceto try and get them to understand and recognise and use these patterns.
