YOUNG LEARNERS

The wheels on the bus

by Jackie Holderness & Annie Hughes

Level 1 • Starter / Beginner +

Transcript
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Age: Primary (6–11) Round and round, round and round.
Language aims: To sing a song about a bus; to link The wheels on the bus go round and round
words with actions All day long.
Time: 20 minutes
The bell on the bus goes ting-a-ling-a-ling
Student grouping: Whole class
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling.
Materials: One copy of the worksheet per
The bell on the bus goes ting-a-ling-a-ling
student; the audio (played via onestopenglish or
All day long.
downloaded in advance)
Language focus: Bus, wheels, doors; people, bell, The doors on the bus go open and shut
horn, driver, wipers; go, goes; move along, please; Open and shut, open and shut.
open, shut, round and round The doors on the bus go open and shut
All day long.

Procedure The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish

Teaching tip
Get to know the song quite well before
class so that you can confidently mime/sing it to the
class and do all the actions that go with it.
Step 1
TEACHER’S NOTES: LEVEL 1 (STARTER / BEGINNER +)
Swish swish swish, swish swish swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish
All day long.
The driver on the bus shouts, ‘Move along, please!’
‘Move along, please! Move along, please!’
The driver on the bus shouts, ‘Move along, please!’
All day long.

Hand out the worksheets and talk about the pictures.

The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep
Teach bus, people, wheels, doors, bell, wipers, horn
Beep beep beep, beep beep beep.
and driver. Tell the children that they are going to sing
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep
a song about a bus.
All day long.
Step 2

Play the first verse and do action number 1 with it –

that is, move your arms together round and round.
Play it again and let the children join in with you. Don’t
worry if they don’t get all the words this time.

Step 3

Do the same for verses 2–6. The action pictures will

show what you have to do. In verse 5, the children can
join in with ‘Move along, please!’ Play each verse a
couple of times until all the children have learnt
the actions.

Step 4

Now sing the whole song all the way through.

Follow-up activity
Arrange six chairs in a line, all facing forwards. The first
is for the driver. Call six children to mime the song as
the class sings.
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The wheels on the bus
by Jackie Holderness & Annie Hughes
The wheels on the bus

1 The wheels on the bus go round and round 4

Round and round, round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round
All day long.

The bell on the bus goes ting-a-ling-a-ling

Ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling.
The bell on the bus goes ting-a-ling-a-ling
All day long.

The doors on the bus go open and shut

Open and shut, open and shut.
The doors on the bus go open and shut
2
All day long. 5

The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish

Swish swish swish, swish swish swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish
All day long.

The driver on the bus shouts, ‘Move along, please!’

‘Move along, please! Move along, please!’
The driver on the bus shouts, ‘Move along, please!’
All day long.

3 The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep

6
Beep beep beep, beep beep beep.
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep
WORKSHEET

All day long.

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