Language & Grammar

  • 1 TRY OUT LANGUAGE

  • 2 LEARN GRAMMAR

  • 3 APPLY ON YOUR OWN

Describe Animals and Things Illustration of the CD icon

Listen to the rap that describes an animal. Then listen again and chime in.

Rap: The Okapi
You rarely see an okapi.
She lives quietly and alone
In dense African forests.
For years she was unknown.
Now that we have found her,
She may soon be gone.
She is a funny creature
With a lo-o-ong and clever tongue,
A tongue that is unique among
Her African animal peers.
She uses it to wash her eyelids
And to clean her ears.
She has an awkward body.
It makes you want to laugh.
Her legs are zebra-striped.
That’s just her bottom half.
Sitting on her short, thick neck
Is the head of a giraffe.
You may never see an okapi,
And that would be a shame,
Except in a zoo, but you know it’s true,
A zoo is not the same
As seeing the okapi
Or any animal you name
Living and free, alive and free
Within its own domain.
The okapi lives in the African rain forest. It is one of the few animals that can lick its own ears with its long tongue. This animal, or species, is in danger of disappearing.

The okapi lives in the African rain forest. It is one of the few animals that can lick its own ears with its long tongue. This animal, or species, is in danger of disappearing.