We do good listening and we talk when talking is alright.
We're hot on that here and the reason is quite clear:

Learning's best when there's one speaker and the rest, the rest are the listeners.
When turns come around, we become the speakers then.

There are times for talking and times for listening.
We know which ones are which:
When our hand's up then we're picked:
That's one of our talking times.

There are times for talking and times for listening.
We know which ones are which:
Teacher talking to the class:
That's one of our listening times.

If we feel like talking at the wrong times,
we know that we must just save talk till later.
It will keep!
Of course it will!

We do good listening and we talk when talking is alright.
We're hot on that here and the reason is quite clear:

Learning's best when there's one speaker and the rest, the rest are the listeners.
When turns come around, we become the speakers then.

There are times for talking and times for listening.
We know which ones are which:
Teacher says, “Discuss in pairs:”
That's one of our talking times.

There are times for talking and times for listening.
We know which ones are which:
School Assembly in the hall:
That's one of our listening times.

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