Hey! Diddle Diddle
Languages: English, French
Ressource Type: song, nursery rhyme
Themes: traditionnal song, animals
Age-range: infant-preschool, 4 – 8 years
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♦ Hey! Diddle Diddle Lyrics
“Hey! Diddle Diddle” is a nonsense song about a cat with her fiddle, a cow and the moon, a silly little dog and the plate with the spoon.
English Lyrics:
Hey! Diddle Diddle
Hey! diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
French translation:
Eh ! Dis donc, dis donc
Eh ! Dis donc, dis donc,
Le chat et le violon,
La vache a sauté par-dessus la lune,
Le petit chien a ri
De voir ces drôleries,
Et le plat avec la cuillère s’est enfui.
Culture and Vocabulary:
- animals (cat, cow, dog);
- the dishes and the cutlery (dish, spoon).
Grammar:
- simple past (jumped, laughed, ran away);
- personification of the cat, the dog, the dish and the spoon.
Phonology:
- the repetition of /t/ and /d/;
- the repetition of the vowel sounds /i/ in “Hey, diddle, diddle”.
Teaching suggestions:
- discover traditonnal nursery rhymes.
