Learning about Language

Discovering useful words and

expressions

Ex 1

• 2. high sky pie my fly shy lie

• 3. sing ring wing thing king fling string

• 4. today away say play lay tray may

• 5. lace race face case chase place space

• 6. true too new flew few shoe canoe

Ex 2

• Nursery ;

• rhythm;

• rhyme ;

• recite;

• run out of;

• cottage

Discovering useful structures• Key to Ex 3:• 1. E • 2. A • 3. D • 4. B • 5. C• Ex 4: • 1. had paid, would not have missed• 2. would lend; had• 3. won; would spend• 4. didn’t write, would spend• 5. were, would take it easy• 6. had been, would have met

Using Language

• When you listen to it, what came to your mind?

• Ex 1:

• 2. Yes.(it has two strong beats per line.)

• 3. Yes.

• …

Ex 2• Circle words: you/ new; need/ feed;

nineteen/mean; way/ day; own/ own; • The last 4 lines are unusual: same word,

different meaning.• 2. the strong beats:• Saved; give; you; hold; mornings;

when; new; saved; sunlight; you; need; place; darkness; where; feed; for; kept; you; nineteen; till; you’ll; brave; mean; answers; help; way; answers somewhere; bottom; day; you’ve; love; give; own; help; road; till ; own

Key to Ex 3:• 1. A (mother or father) speaking to a young adult c

hild (son or daughter).• Many of the phrases imply that the speaker is an ol

der person who has experienced their own journey through life and who is offering love to the young person to help him/ her begin on his / her own journey through life. For example:” I ‘ve saved the summer… and I’ve saved some sunlight…till you’re older…I know no answer to help you on your way.

• We know the speaker is probably a parent: But if you’ve a need for love, I’ll give you all I own. We know the son/ daughter is a young adult: when you were but nineteen.

• 2. B

Listening and speaking

• Ex 1:

• 1. Lucy

• 2. Jack

• 3. Lucy

• 4. Tom

Ex 2:• 1. By the 24th of the month.• 2. No, not completely. She thinks that if she

had an extra week to work on it, she could improve it.

• 3. Tom• 4. Because he finds that notices all sorts of

things and he has interesting thoughts.• 5. Because she likes the quiet and likes to

have her own things around her.• 6. yes, but he has never tried writing poetry

to music before.

Wb. Listening• Ex 1:

• 1. Lily, Chelsea

• 2. Lily; Chelsea• Ex 2:• 1. Wu Zhe: It’s rubbish.• The language in poetry is strange.• Lily: Poetry is like music.• Poetry takes you to a different world.• Chelsea: I like experimenting with words.• You don’t have to follow grammar rules.• 2. A Lily B. Wu Zhe C. Chelsea

Using Words and Expressions• Ex 1:

• 1. beauty beautiful

• 2. joy joyful

• 3. sorrow sorrowful

• 4. delight delightful

• 5. dread dreadful

• 6. hope hopeful

• 7. peace peaceful

• 8. power powerful

• Other possible pairs:• Thank• success• Pain• Colour• Harm• Use• help

Ex 2:Noun Verb Adjective Adverb

anger anger angry angrily

dark darken dark darkly

impression impress impressive repetitively

repetition repeat repetitive

transformation transform transformational

translation translate translated

warmth warm warm warmly

enjoyment enjoy enjoyable enjoyable

expression express expressive expressively

inspiration inspire inspirational inspirationally

Ex 3• 1. expressively• 2. darkness• 3. translation’• 4. repeat• 5. inspirational• 6. anger• 7. impressed• 8. enjoyably• 9. transformed• 10. warm

• Ex 4

• 1. C

• 2. E

• 3. D

• 4. A

• 5. B

Using Structures

• Ex 1:

• 1. D• 2. A• 3. E• 4. B• 5. C

Ex 2• 1. I would have loved you if you had been

interested in me.• 2. If my parents had a million dollars, we

would go on a trip around the world.• 3. Wouldn’t it be great if there were no wars

on this planet.• 4. If she had taken her teacher’s advice, her

English would have improved a lot by now.• 5. If I were brave, I’d go parachuting.• 6. Tony would have got into the team if he

had been a year older.

Ex 3:• 1. If Shirley hadn’t liked to write poems, she would

n’t have practised every day.• 2. Id she had known how to convey her feelings eff

ectively in a poem, her brother wouldn’t have often laughed at her.

• 3. If she hadn’t read many beautiful poems, her writing skills wouldn’t have gradually improved.

• 4. If she hadn’t been so satisfied with her improvement, she wouldn’t have entered a poem in a poetry competition.

• 5. Id the poem she entered had had an appropriate ending, she would have won the first prize.

• 6. If she hadn’t won an encouragement award, she wouldn’t felt pleased with herself.

Ex 4

• 1. If we hadn’t r\un out of sugar, I wouldn’t have gone to the shops.

• 2. If Liu Sijia hadn’t gone to university, she wouldn’t have moved to thousands of kilometres away from her parents.

• 3. He’ll prepare for you a special drink that is made up of fresh fruit juice, yoghurt eggs.

• 4. If you had kept your eye on her, you wouldn• ‘t have lost her in the crowd.• 5. You’ll get better more quickly if you take it easy

for a while.• 6. If Emily hadn’t teased that cat, it would not have

knocked over that beautiful vase.

Reading Task

• Close your eyes while listening to the poems. And write down your feelings or thoughts about each poem afterwards.

Ex 2• Poem A Tang Poem• This poem has beautiful imagery that

conveys deep feelings. There are many things that this poem makes the reader think about. For example, it contrasts lightheartedness (because of the singing birds) and heavyheartedness (because of the thought of broken blossoms; it contrasts morning and night, and creation (of spring)) and destruction (of the storm)

• Poem B Adverb poem

• Number of lines: two sets of four lines

• Rhythm: regular strong beat( bolded syllables)

• Hungrily the cat consumes the fish;

• Hungrily I close my eyes and make a wish;

• Hungrily the boy runs to the road’s end;

• Hungrily the driver takes the next bend;

• Hungrily the young man loves life at sea;

• Hungrily the beautiful girl looks at me;

• Hungrily the seal dives down into the deep;

• Hungrily I fall into bed and sleep.

• Rhyme:

• four pairs of rhyming lines (fish/ wish, end/ bend, sea/ me, deep/ sleep)

• Repetition:

• hungrily is repeated at the beginning of each line regularly

• Part of speech:

• the adverb hungrily starts each line

• Poem C song• This is a love song.• Rhythm: regular strong beat (see bolded syllables

below)• If you were the only girl in the world• and I were the only boy!• Nothing else would matter in the world today• We could go on loving in the same old way!• A garden of Eden just made for two • With nothing to mar our joy• I would say such wonderful things to you• There would be such wonderful things to do• If you were the only girl in the world• And I were the only boy!

• Rhyme:

• two pairs of rhyming lines(today/ way, you/ do, )

• Repetition:

• first two lines are repeated at the end of the song

• Poem D cinquain

• Number of lines:

• five

• Part of speech:

• line 1—a noun; line 2—two adjectives; line 3—three ing verbs; line 4– a four-word phrase; line 5—a noun

• Topic:

• sunshine

• Poem E haiku• Number of lines: • three• Number of syllables:• 17 (line 1 =5, line 2= 7, line 3=5)• Meaning: • this haiku conveys feelings about the

temporary nature of life, the certainty that we all age (this is one interpretation). It contrasts the season of autumn (when leaves are dying) to the autumn of the poet’s life when his face is becoming like his father’s (this is one interpretation.)

Listening task• Ex 1

• 1. F• 2. T• 3. T• 4. F• 5. T• 6. T• 7. F• 8. F

Ex 2

Sam Ben Sally

What kind of poem is the student going to write?

Cinquain haiku List poem

What topic is the student going to write about?

ben Nature The students in her class

Ex 3• We know they are good friends because

they are talking in a very informal way. Two examples of their informal talk are:

• Sam, don’t you remember- we learnt about them in class (Ben wouldn’t say “don’t you remember ”) to Sam if he didn’t know him well as it is focusing on his lack of knowledge.

• Oh Sam, it’s going to be funny. (Sally is talking to Sam in a very familiar way when she says “oh Sam.”)

• We also know they are good friends because Sam is able to admit to the others that he doesn’t know what haiku is (what are those?) , that haiku sounds too difficult for him to write (sounds a bit difficult to me), that he doesn’t like the homework (That horrible poetry homework we have to do). If they weren’t good friends he wouldn’t reveal his feelings to that extent.

• Sam also jokes a lot with the other two which he wouldn’t do if he didn’t know them very well. For example:

• Well, I always knew you were crazy!• You can leave me out of it!• Guess what I’m going to do it on?... You!

Writing Practice• This is me

• Sample writing:• The sky is blue, • The river is clean, • A girl is playing with water. • Oh, this is me.• The wind is going away,• The moon is climbing in the sky,• A girl is reading by the light.• Oh, this is me.• The dawn is breaking,• The clock is ringing,• A girl is washing face before the mirror.• Oh, this is me.• A confident girl,• A girl smiles at everyone. • Oh, this is me.