�WHERE DO ALL THE TEACHERS GO ?

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Presented By :

P.B.Pawar

TGT- ENGLISH

JNV AHMEDNAGAR

Learning Objectives :-

• Objectives for the Text:
• To enable students to read and comprehend the text
• To help students read and enjoy the poem
• To enable them understand the theme of the poem
• To give them the opportunity to imagine, read, create and write a poem themselves
• To enable them to predict being in someone else’s shoes and imagine their lives
• To get familiar with new words and phrases.

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Study the Slide & List out the Professionals given in the Picture

Where Do All The teachers Go ?

• The child thinks his teacher as a Special person in his life. To him his teacher has been the person who is perfect in all aspects. He is model and guiding figure to him.
• His curious mind is inquisitive to know the details who is even mysterious to him till the day.
• He wonders where his teacher lives like normal people and doing all routine activity. He even thinks what the teachers do when they were school going children .

Let us recite the poem ……

Where do all the teachers go�When it’s four o’clock?�Do they live in houses�And do they wash their socks?

Do they wear pyjamas�And do they watch TV?�And do they pick their noses�The same as you and me?

Do they live with other people�Have they mums and dads?�And were they ever children�And were they ever bad?

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Did they ever, never spell right�Did they ever make mistakes?�Were they punished in the corner�If they pinched the chocolate flakes?

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Did they ever lose their hymn books�Did they ever leave their greens?�Did they scribble on the desk tops�Did they wear old dirty jeans?

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I’ll follow one back home today�I’ll find out what they do�Then I’ll put it in a poem�That they can read to you.

Courtesy to :�https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5N69zYCKs

Stanza-wise analysis of the poem

Stanza One :

Where do all the teachers go�When it’s four o’clock?�Do they live in houses�And do they wash their socks?

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Analysis :

The child wonders and questions where all the teachers go after the school hours. He wants to know if like any other ordinary being they also live in houses and wash their socks, means do they also do all the routine work like other people.

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Stanza Two :

Do they wear pyjamas�And do they watch TV?�And do they pick their noses�The same as you and me?

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Analysis :

The child wants to know if teachers also wear clothes like pyjamas  and watch TV like them? Do they also clean their noses the way other people do and waste their time?

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Stanza-wise analysis of the poem

Stanza Three:

• Do they live with other people�Have they mums and dads?�And were they ever children�And were they ever bad?�

Analysis :

Further, the child wonders by asking if they are also surrounded by people? If they also have parents and children like us to live with? Did they commit any mistakes or did anything wrong when they were children?

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Stanza Four :

Did they ever, never spell right�Did they ever make mistakes?�Were they punished in the corner�If they pinched the chocolate flakes?

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Analysis :

Now he wants to know if they also made mistakes or were ever punished for stealing chocolates�Or doing any silly or naughty?

Stanza-wise analysis of the poem

Stanza Five:

Did they ever lose their hymn books

Did they ever leave their greens?

Did they scribble on the desk tops

Did they wear old dirty jeans?

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• Analysis :

The tender mind is also bothered to know if their teachers also ever lost their religious books and said no to green vegetables. Did they also waste time by scribbling on tables and wear torn and old jeans.

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Stanza Six :

I’ll follow one back home today�I’ll find out what they do�Then I’ll put it in a poem�That they can read to you.

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Analysis :

To overcome his curiosity the child decides to follow as a spy on his teacher ,while on his way to home after school.

Once he is clear about everything, he would also like to write a poem about it and other students would read it.

Rhyming Words & Rhyming Scheme

Where do all the teachers go�When it’s four o’clock?�Do they live in houses�And do they wash their socks?

Rhyming pair :

clock - socks

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• Rhyme Scheme:

The follow up pattern of rhyming words in the stanza is known as Rhyme Scheme of that stanza.

Where do all the teachers go : a �When it’s four o’clock? : b �Do they live in houses : c�And do they wash their socks? : b

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Rhyme Scheme : abcb

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Conclusion :-

• The poet speaks about his teacher and has been curious to know about his life.
• The poem explores the imaginative capacities of the child. He visualizes the various possible routine practices of teacher’s daily life.
• He compares himself with teacher and thinks whether his teacher is also an ordinary child like him.
• He trusts on his abilities to compose the text and would like to read in front of the class.

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