This Music video introduces teachers to lesson two of the Caribbean unit, where pupils combine topical headlines with calypso’s traditional features of political lyrics and improvisation. After recapping the song What’s the Story, the class will explore how calypso often includes verse and chorus structures before creating their own short news headlines to be performed in the chorus gaps.

This Music video introduces teachers to lesson three of the Caribbean unit, where pupils explore the instrumental aspects of calypso music. The lesson begins with listening examples of steel pans and discussion of their role, before pupils learn differentiated tuned percussion parts of the song. Part two provides a simpler stepwise option, part one introduces quicker movements, and the bass line offers greater challenge with faster rhythms and wider leaps.

This Music video introduces teachers to lesson four of the Caribbean unit, where pupils encounter the quaver note for the first time. The quaver is worth half a beat and usually appears in pairs to make up a full beat. In this lesson, pupils use their prior knowledge of the calypso chorus rhythm to help them identify and play quavers on tuned percussion instruments, supported by note names written on the score and on the instrument bars.

This Music video introduces teachers to the final lesson in the Caribbean topic, focusing on improvisation within the song What’s the Story Calypso. The lesson begins with an experiment to show why improvisation needs rules, before pupils improvise using the pentatonic scale notes C, D, E, G, and A.