1. A Garden of Poems
Listening and speaking

2. Warming-up What English poems have you read? Can you recite any?
Eg: Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And I love you

3. Warming – up style lines syllables rhyme rhythm lyrics sound Poems
Brain storming
rhythm
lyrics
sound

4. Read the following limericks on page 25 and fill in the chart:
Main idea
Style
Lines
Rhyming pattern
Syllables

5. Limerick one A large lady from Corfu, Wished to travel to Peru.
But whether buses or trains
Or boarding aeroplanes,
There wasn’t a door she’d get through.

6. Limerick two A teacher from Singapore, Taught at middle school No. 4
It didn’t take students long
To see something was wrong:
The man was as mad as a door!

7. Characteristic of a limerick
Style
funny
Form
Lines 5
Rhyming pattern
aabba
Syllables
7 syllables for the first two lines, fewer for the next two and more for the last line
Feelings or themes
humor
serious romantic fantasy…
love death happiness sadness loneliness nature (flowers, trees etc) friendship peace war…

8. Pre-listening
How can we choose poems to read from a library

9. While-listening
Listen to the tape and tick the words that are used by the woman working in the library.
Poem
The sea
Collection
The World wars
The countryside
The moon
Nature
Animals
Gardens
Paintings

10. Listen to the tape again and answer the following questions
If you are a beginner, where should you start?
After choosing one or more books, how should you read them?
How are books of poems usually sorted by?

12. Speaking Names of Students Poems he or she likes Reasons for that …
Post-listening
Speaking
Interview three or four of your classmates about the poems they are interested in and the reasons for that. Try to use the expressions on page 27 in your dialogues.
Names of Students
Poems he or she likes
Reasons for that …