HVG3-EN-2021-Theme 2 // week 47

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

English Theme 2

Speaking & Poetry

English HVG3 - Theme 2

Speaking & Poetry

Poetry?!

This theme's goals

You are going to learn about poetry and practice speaking by giving a presentation about a poem. 

because of the new covid-schedule, we are not sure when the presentations will be... to be continued... 

HOW? 

Your presentation...

- You will work in pairs
- You will choose a poem from the reader and design a poetry video (visual poem)
- Your visual poem will play an important part in your presentation

We have designed exercises and a reader to help you through this process

So the plan is...

Every week is clearly described in your study guide.

Your exercises, instruction and all the poems you can choose from are in a reader.
Your vocabulary list is 60% the same as theme 1 and 40% new.
The language help is a document with useful presentation sentences. 

Planning

Learning about poetry & preparing your work > week 47, 48, 49

Every week you will work on some exercises from your reader and hand these in via magister opdrachten .

Vocab test > week 49

The test will be digital. Questions focus on applying the words.

Deadline visual poem > week 49

Hand-in a link to your video via magister on Friday 4 December .

Start of presentations > week 50
As soon as we know what's possible, you can sign up for a moment of your choice.

Grammar herhaling > week 50, 51, 2

This is to repair some of the damage from lessons you missed last year and to better prepare you for theme 3: writing. 

Rubric

Use the rubric as a checklist

Where?

Use the reader from your study guide

Do you have any questions about this theme?

Let's get to it!

Warming-up

There is nothing more perky

Than a masculine turkey.

When he struts he struts

With no ifs or buts.

When his face is apoplectic

His harem grows hectic.

And when he gobbles

Their universe wobbles.

Look up the words perky, strut, apoplectic, wobble. Add a picture about this

00:00

What does a happy new year look like?

00:54

It's the beginning of 2020, the singer is

1. happy
2. sad
3. angry
4. confused

02:18

Choose a picture that fits "de wereld staat in de fik" - no pictures with fire ;)

What you need to be warm

Listen to the poem and write down all the words that have to do with warmth and with cold

You can also find the text on the next slide
Remember: some words are not literally about temperature!

What you need to be warm

A baked potato of a winter’s night to wrap your hands around or burn your mouth. A blanket knitted by your mother’s cunning fingers. Or your grandmother’s.

A smile, a touch, trust, as you walk in from the snow

or return to it, the tips of your ears pricked pink and frozen.

The tink tink tink of iron radiators waking in an old house.

To surface from dreams in a bed, burrowed beneath blankets and comforters, the change of state from cold to warm is all that matters, and you think just one more minute snuggled here before you face the chill. Just one.

Places we slept as children: they warm us in the memory.

We travel to an inside from the outside. To the orange flames of the fireplace or the wood burning in the stove. Breath-ice on the inside of windows, to be scratched off with a fingernail, melted with a whole hand.

Frost on the ground that stays in the shadows, waiting for us.

Wear a scarf. Wear a coat. Wear a sweater. Wear socks. Wear thick gloves. 

 An infant as she sleeps between us. A tumble of dogs, 

a kindle of cats and kittens. Come inside. You’re safe now.

A kettle boiling at the stove. Your family or friends are there. They smile.  Cocoa or chocolate, tea or coffee, soup or toddy, what you know you need. A heat exchange, they give it to you, you take the mug 

and start to thaw. 

While outside, for some of us, the journey began
as we walked away from our grandparents’ houses away from the places we knew as children: changes of state and state and state, to stumble across a stony desert, or to brave the deep waters, while food and friends, home, a bed, even a blanket become just memories. 

Sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place, to hold out a badly-knitted scarf, to offer a kind word, to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.

You have the right to be here.

Add pictures that you could use to illustrate this poem

Homework: Exercise 1 + 2

These exercises were examples of exercise 1 & 2 that you will work on with your buddy this week.

Remember to hand them in on Friday.

Don't forget to study your vocabulary ;) 

What is the most important thing you learned today?