Poetry Contest (интерактивная игра для учащихся 5 классов школы с углубленным изучением английского языка)

Form 5 Interactive Game

Teacher:

We are glad to see you here

When Christmas day is so near

We’ll have a lot of fun today

On this happy holiday!

Dear children, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We have gathered together to talk about poetry, to recite our favourite poems in English and in the Russian translation and to see if you can make up poems.

We are going to have Poetry Contest - a merry competition between our three English groups.

But what is poetry? Can you answer this question?

Pupil 1

The word poetry comes from the Greek verb, which means “to make” or “to create.” It is one of the oldest forms of expression. Before language was written, it was spoken.

Pupil 2

Poetry is easier to remember and retell than a long story, especially if it has rhyme. Thus the first great written literature was mostly poetic in form because it came from a very old spoken tradition.

Pupil 3

Poetry appears in many forms. But it always stirs a reader's imagination or emotions through language. Some poems entertain the reader, others inform him or express some universal truth.

Pupil 1

The Latin writer Horace called poets “the first instructors of mankind.

Pupil 2

The American clergyman William Channing once said:

Most joyful let the Poet be;

It is through him that all men see.

Pupil 3

The English poet Samuel Coleridge said that “Poetry is the best words in the best order.”

Pupil 1

Thomas Gray once said, “Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”

Pupil 2

The English writer W. Somerset Maugham said,

“The crown of literature is poetry.”

Pupil 3

John Cage said, “I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.”

Introduction of the teams

One of the teams recites a poem and its Russian translation and sings a song.

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Task 1.

Complete the lines of the poem

DECEMBER

December comes with white … sky

And cold winds begin … and fly

From the cold and starlit … snow

Merry snowflakes fly … white

They fall softly … to blow

All are still, all are … in the night

Task 2.

Put the lines in the correct order to make up a funny poem.

Example: Jerry Hall

He is so small

A rat could eat him

Hat and all.

But not on me

Rain on the house-top

And rain o the tree

Rain on the green grass

Task 3.

Put the 8 lines in the correct order to make up two funny poems.

Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie

When the girls came out to play

As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks

Tomorrow will be Sunday

Kissed the girls and made them cry

Georgie Porgie ran away

Were walking out on Sunday

Teacher: English children learn these short poems in childhood. They are called nursery rhymes.

Pupil 4

Poetry appears in many forms. The simplest poems are children's nursery rhymes. They are short verses and songs for children. Many nursery rhymes tell a quick story in just a few lines. Their clever use of language makes nursery rhymes easy to remember.

Pupil 5

Nursery rhymes are entertaining for children to hear, but they can also help them to learn new skills and to become better readers and speakers. Sometimes a rhyme can help a child to learn to count. For example, “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe”.

No wonder nursery rhymes are still popular today.

Teacher: Do you know other nursery rhymes?

What does the nursery rhyme ‘Mondays child is fair of face’ teach us?

Poem

Monday’s child

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One of the teams sings a Christmas song.

Task 4.

Do you know any English proverbs? They are short but wise, and teach us good lessons. They like poems have RHYMING WORDS . That’s why it is easy to memorise them.

Match the beginning and the end of the proverb and find its Russian equivalent.

You are to unscramble 10 proverbs (HANDOUTS)

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Task 5.

Let us see if you can compose poems. Don’t forget it’s not difficult to do this if you can find rhyming words.

For example: look at the lines of the poem December and find rhyming words.

Complete the lines with rhyming words to make up your own poems.

Once I had a dog

His name was Pete

He loved to sleep

…………………

Once I had a bird

Her name was Hi

She couldn’t laugh

………………….

Once I had a cow

Her name was Bess

When I said ‘No”

………………….

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Task 6.

Compose your own 4-line poem beginning with

Once I had … and draw an illustration.

Once I had ________________

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Teacher: Dear children, we have prepared a surprise for you.

The King’s Breakfast by A.A.Milne

The song Over the river

Over the river and through the woods
To Grandfather's house we go.
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh
Through white and drifted snow.

Over the river and through the wood --
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes
And bites the nose,
As over the ground we go.

The Results of the game – the groups get diplomas in the following nomanations

Best Poets

Talented Poets

Merry Poets

Certification - the pupils get certificates for taking an active part in the Poetry Contest

Evaluation Chart

Class 5 ____

KEYS

Task 1.

Complete the lines of the poems

DECEMBER

December comes with white snow

And cold winds begin to blow

From the cold and starlit sky

Merry snowflakes fly and fly

They fall softly in the night

All are still, all are white

Task 2.

Put the lines in the correct order to make up a funny poem.

Example: Jerry Hall

He is so small

A rat could eat him

Hat and all.

Rain on the green grass

And rain on the tree

Rain on the house-top

But not on me

Task 3.

Put the 8 lines in the correct order to make up two funny poems.

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie

Kissed the girls and made them cry

When the girls came out to play

Georgie Porgie ran away

As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks

Were walking out on Sunday

Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks

Tomorrow will be Sunday.

Task 4.

Task 5.

The poem December

Rhyming words: snow –blow, sky-fly, night- white

HANDOUTS

Team ____________________ Form 5 _____

Task 1.

Complete the lines of the poems

DECEMBER

December comes with white … sky

And cold winds begin … and fly

From the cold and starlit … snow

Merry snowflakes fly … white

They fall softly … to blow

All are still, all are … in the night

Team ____________________ Form 5 _____

Task 5.

Complete the lines with rhyming words to make up your own poems.

Once I had a dog

His name was Pete

He loved to sleep

…………………

Once I had a bird

Her name was Hi

She couldn’t laugh

………………….

Once I had a cow

Her name was Bess

When I said ‘No”

………………….

Team ____________________ Form 5 _____

Task 6.

Compose your own 4-line poem beginning with

Once I had … and draw an illustration.

Once I had ___________________

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