Scottish bagpipes

The activity starts with a story about the Glencoe massacre which has a lot of elements to attract the students attention. The story will include historic elements but also the legend according to which on the morning of the infamous day a bagpipes tune was played to warn the MacDonald's that slaughter was upon them.

The second part of the activity will be to make a bagpipe with a latex glove, then create and play a very short tune that could be a sign of warning and decide what it would be trying to warn about (e.g. teacher, you need to move on, you are repeating yourself).


And to end the activity we will have a look at some Scottish words: lass, wee, kilt, tartan, aye… and practice the Scottish accent (tapped R, the ooh sound…). They will have to listen to and then read a text with those words and sounds.

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