Here we’ve got a short story song about a slug. Do a listening activity before revealing the words. Play it and have students write down the words. There are 4 lines.

Or you can do a sorting dictation.

Tell students you will to draw 3 columns on a piece of paper: NOUNS, VERBS, and ARTICLES. You will dictate twelve words. They will write them down: four words in each column. (Some English verbs actually consist of two words.)

Here they are in alphabetical order:

a, a, fell down, flashed, got smashed, lightning, roared, slug, the, the, thunder, tree

These words can no be sorted into a 4-line poem.

You’ll find the original version (with singing), followed by the karaoke version.

 

 The Slug, original with singing [0:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The Slug, karaoke: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (351)