What are your favourite sounds?
The sound of....
What are your least favourite sounds?
The sound of....
Buddhist koan: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What’s the most annoying sound to wake up to?
Construction tools
Alarm clock
An argument in the next room
Someone snoring in the next room
Your mum calling you?
Morning traffic
A television
The radio
Bird song
Mosquitoes
Other?
What are the differences between a sound and a noise?
Can you walk around your house without making a sound?
Does your voice sound like one of your parents?
Drip
Can you name three things that drip?
What can you slam?
What things can hum?
Put these ten things in order from loudest to quietest:
bacon frying
a cat purring
a jumbo jet
a Harley Davidson
a Tesla
bees
a worm in the ground
someone breathing
a little stream
people playing table tennis
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Put these adjectives in order from loudest to
quietest:
deafening
inaudible
audible
noisy
quiet
loud
explosive
booming
soundless
faint
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Can you use the adjectives to describe a sound?
"The faint sound of someone breathing."
1. The ______ sound of ________
2. The ______ sound of ________
3. The ______ sound of bees____
4. The ______ sound of ________
5. The ______ sound of ________
6. The ______ sound of ________
7. The ______ sound of ________
8. The ______ sound of ________
9. The ______ sound of ________
10. The _____ sound of ________
Finally, let's change the word "sound" to
another word for "sound"
1. The pleasant tone of her lovely voice_
2. The ______ roar of a ________
3. The ______ buzz of
________
4. The ______ noise of a _______
5. The _______ hum of a _______
6. The _______ purr of a ________
7. The ______ rumble
of th_____er
8. The ______ boom of an ex_______n
9. The distant echo of ________
10. The ______ tinkle of ________
Fun task in pairs - go out of the room for five minutes and record three interesting sounds on your phone. Bring them back and see if another pair can guess what they are.
Onomatopoeia Kahoot
What things can creak?
What can tick that isn't a clock or watch?
Can you imitate this sound?
a car screeching to a halt
bacon frying in a pan
the sound light-sabers make in
Star Wars
a frog croaking
A guitar solo in a heavy metal
song
a lion roaring
Donald Trump's voice
a lawn mower
the sound of basketball boots
squeaking on the floor of the gym
A drum kit
cicadas
water going down the plughole when
you drain the bath
a bird flapping its wings
the sound of a cigarette burning
(up close)
a punch
breaking bones
birds chirping in the morning
rotating ceiling fan when
thunder crash
the wind whistling at night around
the house
rain on the roof
balloons bursting
TV on in the next room
Fireworks going off
a fountain
opera
tennis ball going "pock"
in a professional tennis matches
foreigner speaking your language
very badly
Sound effects in film
Listen to the first few minutes.
Road to Perdition
Listen and write down how many sounds you hear.
In groups, discuss:
Love, like, don't care, hate?
birds chirping in the morning
rotating ceiling fan when you're trying to go to sleep
thunder crash when you're safe inside
the wind whistling at night around the house
rain on the roof as you go to sleep
balloons bursting at a party
TV on in the next room while you're doing homework
Fireworks going off
insect noise in summer
a fountain
someone sniffing next to you on the bus
opera
scissors snipping near your ear when you're getting a haircut
dog barking next door for hours
walking on the coast by a stormy sea
on the bus or train: music heard through someone else's tinny headphones
tennis ball going "pock" in a professional tennis matches
foreigner speaking your language very badly
children playing in a playground
World of the Senses kahoot
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