Instructions on how to write your rap

1. Writing Your Own Rap about Lockdown
You might want to include themes like:
• Missing your friends and extended family
• What you are doing at home
• How you are spending time with the people in your household
• How it feels to be stuck in the house.
• How it feels to get outside for daily exercise.
• What you most look forward to when lockdown ends.
• Your worries about coronavirus
• Doing school work form home
Your rap MUST always be written in a school-appropriate way. It
should reflect how you are experiencing lockdown.

2. How to Write a Rap
Raps are usually written in sets of couplets.
A couplet is made up of two lines that rhyme with each other.
Example:
I like tennis, I think it's neat,
It makes me walk to a different beat.
couplets

3. How to Write a Rap
A set is made up of two couplets.
Example:
I like tennis I think it's neat,
It makes me walk to a different beat.
Smash the ball right down the court,
I think I am playing the right sport.
sets

4. How to Write a Rap
A rap may also have a refrain in your lyrics.
A refrain is a group of lines that remain the same and are
repeated throughout the song, like a chorus.
Example: I like to play, I love to win
Example: I’m ready to rumble, let the match begin!
refrains

5. How to Write a Rap
A couplet is made up of two lines that rhyme with each other.
A set is made up of two couplets.
A refrain is a group of lines that remain the same and are
repeated throughout the song, like a chorus.
Your rap should have 3 sets (a bit like verses) with a
refrain (short chorus) repeated in between each set.

6. Rap Performance
Write your rap on paper or type it onto Word. Share in Teams.
And/or
Perform your rap via video/audio
Say if you’d like it included on our class TikTok
Listen to or read respectfully to other people’s raps.