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Cries from the Heart:Stories from Around the World STAGE 2

Before Reading

BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES (PAGE 44)For these activities, encourage students to exchange ideas, and to speculate and to guess. Do not tell them the answers that are factual; they will find out the answers as they read.

ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING THE PHOTOGRAPH

Open answers. Encourage discussion.

ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING LEONARD

The answers are 2 and 3

ACTIVITY 3 BEFORE READING A POT FULL OF TEARS

Open answers. Encourage discussion.

ACTIVITY 4 BEFORE READING THE HOUSE

She is kind, smiles a lot, helps people, trusts people.

ACTIVITY 5 BEFORE READING DORA’S TURN

1 Y 2 Y

ACTIVITY 6 BEFORE READING CALLUS

Open answers. Encourage discussion.

ACTIVITY 7 BEFORE READING NIMBLE FINGERS

1 T 2 NT

ACTIVITY 8 BEFORE READING

THE FESTIVE SEASON IN A PART OF AFRICA

The answers are 2 and 4.

After ReadingACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING

1+12+18 The African girl in the photograph is

starving, but the girl in the bookstore in the

USA admires her cheek bones and does not

think aboutdying from hunger.

2+15+21 Mrs Phipps is knitting a scarf for Leonard,

who has been her husband for fifty-three

years, but now he does not remember her

name.

3+9+24 A woman and her husband cannot have

children, so they buy a baby in another

country and take the baby back to their

home as their son.

4+16+20 Sonny was a drunkard living on the streets,

but Nan gave him some fruit because he

spoke nicely to her and called her Ma’am.

5+13+17 Dora and Acayo are soldiers with guns,

who are fighting in a terrible war, but they

are only children, twelve years old.

6+10+23 A man packs his suitcase to go to his

wedding while his first wife watches him

unhappily and tries to find the words to

stop him going.

7+14+19 Krishna works in Saami’s factory making

beedies and he asks his mother every night

for a month why he cannot work with his

uncle, Weaver-Maama.

8+11+22 Granny in South Africa sends for the vet

because she is afraid her cow will die, but the calf is born alive and all is well.

ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING

Open answers. Encourage discussion.

ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING

ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING

Word 1: starving, from the story The Photograph It means very hungry, in danger of dying because

you don’t have food to eat.

Word 2: vet, from the story The Festive Season in a Part of Africa

It means a doctor for animals.

ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING

Open answers. Encourage discussion. For example: Do you think the vet was a nice man?

Is half of 2,000 a difficult sum to do?

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ACTIVITY 6 AFTER READING

Both haiku are about A Pot Full of TearsNotes for the teacher:This activity helps students to think about the stories they have read, and what they see as the themes, or points of interest in the story. It also helps them to practise the key vocabulary of the stories. There are no right or wrong answers for this activity, provided that the haiku accurately reflects some aspect of the story.• For classroom work students can work in pairs

or small groups to write their haiku. When all the groups have finished, there can be a guessing competition, with other groups guessing which story each haiku is about. Other possibilities include a haiku recital (each group in turn reads out their haiku to the class), and a poster display.

• If students are doing their reading at home, writing a haiku is a creative way of showing they have read and understood the story. Haiku can be written in students’ own reading diaries, or shared with the class. A good way is to keep a big ‘Reviews Book’ in the classroom, and each student writes their haiku in the book for other students to read.

• Haiku don’t rhyme or scan, but must keep to the 5 / 7 / 5 syllable rule. They can be one long sentence, or a number of short sentences, or just phrases. They can be funny, or sad. Avoid using characters’ names. These examples for some of the other stories in this book show some different ways language can be used in haiku.

LeonardAn old woman’s hands

knitting with painful fingers

for a life-long love.

Dora’s TurnThey are young, afraid,

taught to kill and kill again.

No life for a child.

Nimble FingersNo future. Only

a lifetime’s work to pay back

a grandfather’s debt.

The Festive Season in a Part of AfricaCow and calf alive.

A good price agreed and paid.

Everyone happy!

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