This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can A Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?
Skills and Concepts:
- Appreciating other cultures
- Dividing words into syllables
- Hearing and repeating phonemes of different languages
Vocabulary:
S'il vous plait, merci, por favor, grácias, tafadhali, asante, mn goi, doh je, pozhaluista, spasibo, perfavore,
grazie
Activity:
This is a call and response song about the ways people say "please" and "thank you" in different languages.
Children listen to each word or phrase then sing it back like an echo. As a lead up activity, it is helpful to
break the words into syllables and slowly say each syllable one at a time. This is an excellent activity for
helping children learn to divide words into syllables, and to hear the phonemes of different languages.
Chorus:
If you want to show appreciation
Ease the way in any situation
There's a way to say in every nation
Please and thank you
S'il vous plait, S'il vous plait (see-voo-PLAY)
Merci, Merci (MER-cee)
That's the way we say it in French
Por Favor, Por Favor (POR-fa-vor)
Grácias, Grácias (GRA-see-ahs)
That's the way we say it in Spanish
Tafadhali, Tafadhali (taf-a-DAH-lee)
Says please in Swahili
Asante, Asante (a-SAN-tay)
Says "thank you," whoa-oh
Repeat Chorus
Mn goi, Mn goi (mmm-goy)
Doh je, Doh je (DOH-jeh)
That's the way we say it in Cantonese
Pozhaluista, pozhaluista, (pa-ZHAHL-sta)
Spasibo, spasibo, (spa-SEE-ba)
That's the way we say it in Russian
Per favore, per favore (pair-fa-VOR-eh)
Says "please" in Italian
Grazie, grazie ( gratz-ee-eh)
Says "thank you," whoa-oh
Repeat Chorus
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