If you’re still having problems with teachers thinking that “Do you like dog?” is a correct sentence, then I think I have ( finally!) found the cure. Just like with foods, instead of teaching the singular first, teach everything in the “Do you like…?” form right from the start i.e. for animals that means starting with plurals.

So there’s a new theme on the website, Do you like animals? You’ve already got the song on the CD3 remix and now you have plural picture and minicards, and a downloadable illustrated version of the song.

You simply teach the normal food version of Do you like..? then switch it to animals in the next lesson, voila problem solved! It then also makes CD4’s Animal Voices song a whole lot easier to teach. In fact if you do decide to do that song, you can simple say the animal and just get the kids to make the noises!

Please let me know how you get on with this theme, it does seem to be working, but last year I tried the Favourite Flavour song to do the same thing and that just ended up confusing the teachers even more!