We’re off to London! What are we going to visit? How are we going to travel? We’re going to learn all about this with my favorite EFL ESL London songs for children. From London transport to monuments to history to the Queen, they’re all here. Plus lots of fun and useful games and activities about London to do with your class and get them speaking English, whatever age they are. So get your bags, find your passport and get ready to go. It’s time to travel to London with my Top 10 EFL ESL London songs for children!
London Song Big Ben Rap by EnglishThroughMusic Madrid
Learn all about different London landmarks and, in particular, Big Ben with this fun rap song. Do you know what Big Ben is? You might be surprised when you listen to this song. This is a really good song to use with older groups who will enjoy learning the rap and you can use it as an introduction to London places to visit. Get your class to decide what they would like to visit, research and plan a schedule for a day. They can present their plans for the day to the rest of the class. Maybe they could make up their own rap about some different London monuments that they would like to see or have already visited.
Fly to London | Travel Song for Kids by Pancake Manor
How are you getting to London? Not flying in a box hopefully! What do you think of when you think of London? The Queen? Fish and chips? Get the class to think of other London icons together in groups. You could ask them to make a poster of whatever they come up with to display in your class. Then make a London Bingo card and play together to see who gets the most London icons.
London Town Song by Grupo Tic Taf
This would be a really useful song you are learning about comparatives. You can use it to compare different London landmarks and transport. Which is bigger, Big Ben or the London Eye? Which is faster, a bus or the tube? You could research and make your own London monuments Top Trumps cards and play a game comparing them like in this Supercards game. Put the kids in pairs to play and see who wins the most cards. Or draw a huge map of London and label the different monuments with their sizes, ages etc. Then compare them together.
Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round by ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes
If you are looking for EFL ESL London songs for children for your younger classes, this is a good place to start. It introduces London and some of its well known landmarks with a simple song that the kids will probably already know. You can do lots of actions as you sing this: as well as the wheels going round, you can do Big Ben going tick tock, the London Eye going round, the bridge opening and closing, bells ringing, people watching and more. Make sure you have some flashcards or draw pictures on the board of all these different places to look at before you sing the song so the kids understand what they are singing about. Play a game using these actions to see if the children can recognize what you are – the bus, the bridge etc.
Every Tube Station Song by Jay Foreman
This is the song for you if you’ve ever wanted to know the names of all the different London Underground stations and learn them by heart. Challenge your class to learn them all and find them on a map. Then ask them to plan journeys from one to another and ask and give directions to each other. Which lines will they have to take and where will they have to change trains? You could adapt the game in my Directions lesson plan using a train instead of a sailing ship on the map of the Underground.
London Bus | London Tour | Bus Song | Car Song by Pinkfong!
This is another good song to introduce London to smaller children. You can play London Bridge is falling down and have two children make an arch for the others to walk under and then be caught by the bridge when it falls down. Then march with the Queen’s guards, go round like the London Eye and ride on a bus. Make a cardboard box bus and drive it around the classroom together.
Little Underground Train | London Underground | Tube Song by Rainbow Rabbit Songs
A great song if you’re learning about prepositions in class. Look at a map of London and see if you can work out where the trains pass. What do they go past? When do they go over the ground and when are they underground? The kids can invent their own train journey and describe what they see and where they go. Then they can ask each other questions about their journeys.
A day trip to London song by Luis DM
So, you’ve been to London, you had a great time and now it’s time to tell us what you did. Ask your class to write or prepare a presentation about their imaginary trip to London. What did they visit? What did they enjoy most and was there anything they didn’t enjoy. Pick one student to be interviewed by the others about his or her day in London. You could also do a role play of a day in London. Pick a couple of students to be tourists and then let the others be bus drivers, waiters, the Queen and anything else they can think of and act out a day trip to London.
Pussy Cat Pussy Cat by Little Baby Bum
This is a very cute version of a traditional nursery rhyme that would be fun to use to learn about the Queen and where she lives in London. Ask the children to imagine and draw a picture of Buckingham Palace and all its different rooms. Where could a mouse hide? In the bedroom? Under the Queen’s crown? Behind the throne? Then pretend you are at Buckingham Palace and play hide and seek in class.
London’s Burning by thenurseryrhymeschannel
If you are learning about the history of London, you will be talking about the Great Fire of London. This is a song that British children learn at school about the fire. Sing it as a round in class and then look on a map to see where the fire started and spread to. With older kids, you could look at some old maps and compare London before and after the Fire. How is London different today? The Museum of London has a great website if you are looking for material about the history of London with lots of free resources.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this collection of EFL ESL London songs for children. London is such an amazing city with so much to see and you could spend hours learning about it. As an introduction for an English class though or as part of my London lesson plan, these songs would be a great start. If you’ve enjoyed this, have a look around the site where you can find more collections of songs about lots of different subjects as well as lots of different teaching ideas. To stay in touch with new posts and lessons, you can follow the GoogooEnglish Facebook page. Alternatively, sign up for updates by email by filling in the form below.
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