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Using poems, quotations and proverbs The activities below are ways for students to enjoy the music of English. Poems Choose short simple poems that are close to students' lives. These poems are not for heavy analysis. Give pairs a poem to read together. Learning things by heart is very much a part of school systems and it gives students a sense of achievement to know a poem in English. Recommended poems and poets to try are:; Michael Rosen, Roger McGough or John Hegley . Quotations from Literature Another popular form of learning by heart and reading aloud are the famous sayings from our own literature or the work of philosophers, historians and politicians. They can spark interest in a theme, a person or a writer They are a good basis for discussion They carry universal messages across cultural boundaries They can be learned and recited for their music and beauty They are a common feature of language studies Students feel a sense of achievement in learning them well and you can do a 'quote of the week' throughout the year

Animation albums Shel Silverstein “My beard grows to my toes, I never wear no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.” – “My Beard” Where the Sidewalk Ends “Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail To catch me the wind.” – from “Needles and Pins” Falling Up “Millie McDeevit screamed a scream So loud it made her eyebrows steam.” – from “Screamin’ Millie” Falling Up “I will not play at tug o’ war. I’d rather play at hug o’ war” – from “Hug O’ War” Where the Sidewalk Ends “If you are a dreamer, come in.” – from “Invitation” Where the Sidewalk Ends “Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.” – from “Listen to the Mustn’ts" Where the Sidewalk Ends “Balancing my ABCs Takes from noon to half past three. I don’t have time to grab a T Or even stop to take a P.” – “Alphabalance” Falling Up “Last night I had a crazy dream That I was teachin’ school.

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Poetry Magnets Handwashing - Classroom - BTN Across the globe a highly advanced weapon is being deployed to combat the spread of diseases, it's washing your hands. JACK EVANS, REPORTER: What? Washing your hands? But I've been doing that forever. Like my mum always says, a washed hand gathers no moss. While washing our hands is something we do without thinking too much about it, it's actually quite a recent medical revolution. Unfortunately, not everyone believed him. NICK BAKER, SA HEALTH: What handwashing can do is it can really remove a lot of those germs those nasty bacteria that can make us sick. Nick here is a public health expert and knows a thing or two about washing your hands. NICK BAKER, SA HEALTH: Sometimes your hands might not look dirty but they might actually have a lot of microbes or germs as we call the harmful ones. Nick set up a little experiment to show just how dirty our hands get, involving some invisible gel. NICK BAKER, SA HEALTH: Hands look very clean, pristine. Now imagine the glowing bits are germs. NAT: No.

poets.org | Academy of American Poets Site auteur TeAch-nology.com - Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656+ fables - Why Can’t Penguins Fly? | Wonderopolis Would you like to hear a joke? Okay, here it is: Why can’t penguins fly? Any ideas? It’s because they don‘t have enough money to buy plane tickets! Okay, so that’s an old joke, but we still like it! And it made us WONDER…why can’t penguins fly? Yes, penguins are aquatic, flightless birds that live in the Southern Hemisphere--especially Antarctica. In fact, penguins swimming through water looks quite similar to birds flying through the sky. Penguins spend about half their time in the water and half their time on land. Have you ever seen a penguin walk? Okay, so a penguin’s flippers help them a lot. As they exist today, it’s easy to see why penguins can’t fly. It’s easy to see why penguins would choose advanced swimming ability over flying. Standards: NGSS.LS1.A, NGSS.LS4.B, CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.6, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.9, CCRA.L.1, CCRA.L.2, CCRA.SL.1, CCRA.SL.2

The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield To explore metaphors more fully on your own, there are three directions you can go. The first is simply to start noticing whenever you meet one. Jane Hirshfield slipped metaphors into many of the things she said in this lesson. You might listen to it again and make a list of some of the metaphors she used along the way, without pointing out that they were metaphors. Then go to any random web blog or newspaper or magazine article and just start reading until you’ve found a half dozen metaphors. A second direction to explore metaphors further is to practice inventing metaphors yourself. A third way to learn more about metaphor is to read about it directly. A few specific resources: Almost every modern textbook or handbook about poetry has a chapter on metaphor. BBC Radio ran a terrific 45 minute program on metaphor (with a good “recommended books” list on the program’s web page). Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980)