Unit 4: �Outdoor pursuit�Lesson 15

Poetry

Learning objectives:

Reading: To read a postcard poem and make inferences.

Speaking: To discuss the content of a postcard poem and justify their conclusions.

Listening: To recognise words that rhyme by their sound.

Writing: To write pairs of rhyming sentences.

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Key vocabulary:

poem

day trip

school camp

poor

grumpy

Instructor

mad

cramped

boot

tight

canoeing

hiking

tough

mood

space

stay alive

poet

appear

P.S. (post script)

rhyme

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1. Ben is on a school camping trip.
2. The trip is longer than a day.
3. he says it is ‘cold at night’.

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1 You learn that Ben isn’t with his parents, the weather is bad, he doesn’t like the food, he thinks the teachers are grumpy, sleeping in a tent isn’t comfortable and he isn’t enjoying the outdoor activities.

2 Because it’s unusual, which makes it interesting and because putting it on a postcard suits the content of the poem.

3 Rhyming words usually appear at the end of a line in a poem, but in this poem, they sometimes appear within a line and sometimes at the end.

4 Because Ben has written a lot about the things he doesn’t like, and then in the P.S. he says he wants to go on the school camp again next year.

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dad/bad/mad

night/tight

tough/enough

soon/afternoon

2 d

3 c

4 h

5 g

6 b

7 f

8 a

9 e