THANKS, DEAR DOUG ;-)

I´ve got a very good friend from Scotland. His name is Doug Jewsbury and I always have really interesting chats with him.
I asked him to take a look at my blog and he advised me to try some different new things with my students. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did ;-)
"Teachers might like to try 'London's Burning'. The language is modern, although the subject is a little macabre (it refers to the Great Fire of London). It's fun to sing, because it's a round - a continuous song in which each group of singers starts singing after the previous group has sung one line of the song. It's best illustrated by an example; there is a brief snatch of it here:
www.stickykids.co.uk/lyric/109-Londons_Burning.aspx (you have to press the 'Listen' button).
Because the song has 4 lines, you would divide the kids into 4 groups. The only problem is knowing when to stop singing! By the way, the 'engine' referred to in the song is the 'fire engine' - el coche de bomberos, I suppose!"

THANKS VERY MUCH, DOUG!!!
The BBC also has an interesting little page about nursery rhymes: www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A288966