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For the Learner

A Friend Like You learner bundle: interactive portal on a tablet, Day Journey learning mat and illustrated song storybook

For the Teacher

A Friend Like You teacher bundle: ESL Song Lesson Pack, printable worksheets and vocabulary flashcards

The VOCA idea

Starts with a song. Grows into a whole world.

One original song can expand into coordinated lessons, activities, visuals, stories and interactive classroom experiences.

The catalogue

Explore the Song Worlds

Each song is developed into its own illustrated learning world.

Two children walking together along a sunny village path

A Friend Like You

Children dancing in front of a live band on a lit stage

Get Up and Groove

A child with a wrapped birthday present at the family table

I Get Presents On My Birthday

Children greeting each other outside a school building

I Get to See My Friends at School

A sleepy child at the breakfast table beside a cheerful toddler

I'm a Little Bit Tired Today

A child tying her shoelaces while her parents watch proudly

Look What I Can Do

A marching band parade of children with instruments and confetti

Yes I Can

A child riding a bicycle while family cheers from the lawn

Yesterday I Rode My Bike

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Interactive classroom experience

Interactive learning. Beyond the printable.

Selected VOCA Song Worlds extend into teacher-led interactive classroom experiences, reusing the same songs, vocabulary and illustrations as the accompanying resources.

Screenshot of the VOCA interactive portal: Brandon's ESL Song School welcome screen
The current VOCA interactive portal.

For teachers & institutions

Designed around how English lessons actually run.

Limited preparation time, mixed energy levels, and the need for material that connects instead of fragmenting.

Coordinated, not collected

Song, lesson, activities and visuals are designed together, so preparation is a sequence rather than a search.

Repeated vocabulary exposure

The same target language returns through song, image, movement and written work.

One reusable structure

Every Song World follows the same shape — learn it once and it applies to all of them.

Built for institutions too

Digital-first materials let kindergartens, schools and language schools share one song-based structure across groups.

Free resource

Start with one song in your next lesson.

A sample from a VOCA Song World — the song plus a matching classroom activity — so you can try the structure before anything else.

Download delivery is being set up — the sample will be available here.

Two children walking together along a sunny village path
From the Song World “A Friend Like You”.

About VOCA

Songs written for real classrooms, in Vienna.

VOCA develops original English-learning songs and builds each one into a coordinated set of teaching materials. The work grew out of classroom teaching: songs children want to sing again, paired with resources a teacher can actually run a lesson from.

The catalogue is expanding song by song, with new Song Worlds and interactive experiences in development.

Vocalize · Organize · Comprehend · Achieve

Children greeting each other outside a school building

Bring a song into your next English lesson.

Browse the Song Worlds, or start with a free sample resource.