Literature course

Form 1 &4 : Poem and activities

Students can be grouped by giving each of them (in a folded piece of paper) different name of animals. They are asked to group themselves according to the animals.

1. The River
a) Sequence the strips of sentences.
b) Vocabulary exercise to expose students to the new vocabularies.
c) Sound machine - groups will read, do actions and produce sound according to
stanza allocated to them.

2. Mr Nobody
a) word association : "Do it right" - students evaluate their behavior
List in a table the Negative behaviours and Positive Behaviours

Form 4
1. In the mist of hardship

Intro - ask ss to cut pictures of disasters
- ask about their personal experience - flood / fire / landslide
- what do people do during disaster
- what they see - people /things/ places/ actions - 4 different groups
describe in detail

a) Getting-to-know-you Treasure hunt - ss walk around and find yellow notes and
fill in ex on his biography.
b) Identify emoticon to the stanzas - matching ex

c) write own poem - select a word from the poem eg. soaky; and use their acoustic
skill to write poems.
S - sadness shown
O - on their faces
A - and they neveer lament
K - Keeping their fingers cross
Y - Yet, they never regret

2. He had such quiet eyes

a) chain reading - ask each student to read one line- aim : ss aware of the
sentences in the poem.

b) Tr tells/ explain the poem

c) Change from man to woman,change pronoun to she etc / sexy eyes /

d) Bingo activity - draw 2 tables that contain words from the poem - 2 words
Tr reads the description of the words, ss cross out the words where their
meanings have been mentioned by the tr. ss slashed out the words
SS who got 3 in a line cry BINGO if there are 3 words in a line being strike
out.

e) Agony Column - letter to editor ; The editor will advice - 2 groups ; one the
girl with the problem, 2nd group the editor.