CLIL 2
LITERATURE – Poetry
(SB page 114)

GAME: SNAKE
• Teacher gives students a word. Students find the next
word which starts with the last letter of the previous
word.
• For each word, students get 1 point.
Example: clean  never  read  d…

Task 1 (SB page 114)
Work in groups of 4.
Each student says some lines
in the poem they have in their
mind for the others to guess.

Can you remember a poem from school?

2

1

3,4,5,6

7

Task 2 (SB page 114)
Read the poem and
choose the best title.

Task 3 (SB page 114)

Read the poem again.
Answer the questions.

1

1. In the countryside
2. Your answer

2

3. plain, lane
4. 4 verses in the poem

3

5. Again and again and again, you know
6. Punctuation is flexible in a poem

4

Click on the key to display the answer

Task 3 (SB page 114)

Task 4 (SB page 114)
Do you like reading poetry? Why? / Why not?
Work in pairs to discuss this question.

Task 5 (SB page 114)
In pairs, think of some words which rhyme (or nearly rhyme) with again.
Then write another verse for the poem. Share it with the class.

 gain – plane – rain – drain – main – vain – train – chain – stain
– Jane – cane

 game – flame – name – frame – came – same – fame – game –
blame – shame – became

Task 6 (SB page 114)
Prepare a short presentation about a
famous poem from your country.

Your poem's
name
Your
poem [here]

• Copy the poem onto a piece of paper.
• Draw a picture to go with it.
• Make notes about what it means.
Make notes about the rhymes, repetition
and punctuation.

Your drawing [here]

Your notes[here]

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b
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r
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W
n
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c
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