V4 - week 6 - poetry The Lesson and Vegetarians

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Today's objectives

Poetry 

Review last week's poem

Vegetarians - R. McGough

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Mon Ami & Me - Reading & Vocabulary

Groups

1) Klaas /  Jochem / Bauke / Jolt

2) Femke / Grytsje / Dautzen / Silke

3) Rogier / Hidde / Lyke / Andes

4) Jochem  / Bart Wagenaar / Emma / Nynke

5) Hester / Tom / Elise / Lennaert

6) Wesley / Dennis / Annelie / Marianne / Ruben

Jelena -> independent work

The Lesson - Robert McGough

1. What is going on in this poem?

2. What is the double meaning of stanza 2, last two lines"- "To Teach a Lesson

3. What is the teacher doing? Give evidence from the poem

The Lesson - Robert McGough

4. What is the double meaning of "to pop a head around" ?

5. What is the pun in "first come, first severed”?

6. Which "lesson" does the teacher give? In other words, what does he teach his class?

Vegetarians

1) Why does the narrator feel that vegetarians are cruel and unthinking people?

2) What happens when "a carrot screams when grated" "a peach bleeds when torn apart" and "a tomato spills its brains"? What literary device is this?

Vegetarians

3) What does the narrator mean when he says that "potatoes,..., the soil's little lobsters"?  What literary device is this?

4) The narrator makes a final appeal in the  last 4 lines. 

A) What is he saying? B) What is the origin of these lines (where do they come from)?

5) Why does McGough write such a poem on Vegetarians? 

      What does he want to express with it?

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Reading Comprehension

Ex. D - WB p. 33

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Vocabulary

Ex. E - WB p. 33-34

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Watching & Listening

Ex. F - WB p. 34-35

Homework

Ex. J - WB p. 35/36