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Input: songs, sounds, reading material (other poems, articles, quizzes, letters), images (paintings,

photos, video clips), dramatizations and smells to activate Ss schemata S write down

anything/everything that comes to their minds. Then use a template to write about a topic, e.g. love.

Activities (reading and interpretation).

- Matching exercises: matching poem to themes, feelings, images, songs, music, realia, other texts (stories,

notes, other poems)

- Drawing, acting, colouring, making an object.

- Asking about the happy or angry words- Which line or phrase could be used as a book title.

- Associations bw poem and Ss life experiences or immediate reactions

Patterns

ACROSTIC (based on name or noun/idea)

M y regrets are very few

A wful episodes I have lived

R emind me that life is difficult

C hrist has been generous with me

O mitting some stumbles I can

S ay that my life was and is very nice

DEFINITION

Love is...

A beatiful feeling between two or more people,

The fruit of a good friendship,

All you need to live,

Not feeling, not eating, not even breathing without thinking

About that person for whom you are living,

A feeling that everybody needs, its food for the soul,

Old as the world, eternal as the univers, deep as the sea andFragile as crystal.

SENSES (similies)

Line 1 [an emotion or idea] is [one or two colors]

Line 2 it tastes like...

Line 3 it sounds like...

Line 4 it smells like...

Line 5 it looks like...

Line 6 it makes me feel (like)...

CHOCOLATE

Chocolate is golden brown and white

It tastes like the first kiss that makes you want more.

It sounds like crunchy, dry leaves falling on the ground.

It sells like a warm memory from my childhod.

It looks like the best treasure, a big smile of a small child.

It makes me feel like floating on a cloud high over the earth!

CINQUAIN (5-verse poem; diamon shape)

Line 1 noun

Line 2 two adjectivesLine 3 three present participles

Line 4 four-word phrase

Line 5 synonym for noun or closely related noun

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PIANO

GRAND, ELEGANT

SPARKLING, FEELING, BRIGHTENING

LOVE OF MY LIFE

MUSIC

Opposites

NOUN AADJECTIVE A ADJECTIVE A

GERUND A GERUND A GERUND A

NOUN A NOUN A NOUN B NOUN B

GERUND B GERUND B GERUND B

ADJECTIVE B ADJECTIVE B

NOUN B

Granny

Old stiff

Knitting talking rocking

Fragility tears diapers milk Screaming sleeping smiling

Cute soft

Baby

1) Highlight pattern and how this contributes to create a mirror image where opposite concepts meet in the

middle line.

2) T elicitation of pairs of opposite nouns, gerunds, adjectives...

3) The poem can be written in a non linear sequence

WORDSHAPES

- words shape

- shape words

VALENTINE POEMS

BE MY VALENTINE!

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet,

And so are you!

FUNNY VALENTINES!

Roses are red,

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Violets are blue,

Please dont kiss me

cuz I have the flu!

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

God made me pretty,

But what happened to you!