1 h/v literature: poetry

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This lesson contains 12 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Literature
Poetry

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Reading
Read the poem on page 137 of the Student Book.
Write down all the words you don't know the meaning of.

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Choose the best title
Country life
My favourite day
The window

Slide 3 - Poll

Where do you think the writer lives?

Slide 4 - Open question

How do you think the old man feels? Why?
Example: He feels ... because ...

Slide 5 - Open question

The word 'frame' rhymes with 'again'.
Find two more words in the poem that (nearly) rhyme with 'again'.

Slide 6 - Open question

There are four lines in a verse.
How many verses are there in the poem?

Slide 7 - Open question

Find two examples of repitition in the poem - where the writer repeats a word or a phrase.

Slide 8 - Open question

Do you like reading poetry? Why / Why not?

Slide 9 - Open question

Words that rhyme
Try to complete each of the following verses by finding a word that rhymes with the last word of the second line.

I dreamed I was riding a zebra
with curly pink hair on his head.
And when I woke up in the morning…

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Words that rhyme
If I had a dollar
I know what I’d do.
I’d go the mall and…

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Write your own poem
1) Choose a topic.
2) Write two verses of four lines.
3) Think of a title
4) Choose a rhyming scheme: AABB or ABAB
5) Hand in your poem in the Classroom

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