Literature - Hello! Beyond Words Term 1 - أول اعدادي

UNIT 5 5 Literature Helping the Earth Stanza 1 As the Earth grows hotter and wetter, We need to learn to look after it better. A drought here, a flood there, We can help, no matter where! Stanza 2 Turn off lights that you don't need, Turn off that tap, others are in need, Walk or cycle rather than drive. Lesson objectives: • Read and understand a poem about helping the Earth Don't throw plastic where dolphins dive! Stanza 3 Plant more flowers, plant more trees, For the birds and for the bees. We must try for all we're worth, So we can save our Planet Earth! Identify the structure of a poem 1 Moira Dutton Listen to and read the poem. Match the words to their definitions. 1 look after 2 worth 3 dive 4 Earth a jump into the water b the planet we live on C take care of d the value of something 2 Read the poem again. Answer the questions. 64 1 Why do you think the Earth is getting "hotter and wetter”? 2 Name three ways the poet suggests we can "look after" the Earth. 3 Name two things the poet thinks we should stop doing.

3 Read the poem again and write your answers to the questions. 1 How many stanzas does the poem have? 2 Which words rhyme with each other in the poem? As the Earth grows hotter and wetter, We need to learn to look after it better. 3 In "Helping the Earth", the poet says "others are in need". Who is she talking about? 4 Is the Earth talked about as if it was a person in this poem? What do we call this? Identifying the structure of a poem Every poem has a different structure. The structure helps to show us what the poem is about or how the poet felt when he or she wrote it. When you look at a poem and you want to know what structure it has, notice these things about it: 1 How many stanzas it has - Stanzas are the different parts of a poem that usually have a blank line between them. 2 Which words rhyme — When two words end with the same sound, they rhyme. - 3 Personification - When the poet gives qualities of a person to a thing. 4 Work in groups. Look at your answers to Exercise 3. Then look at the structure of the poem and answer the questions. 1 What's the subject of the first stanza? 2 What's the subject of the second stanza? 3 Why do you think every two lines rhyme at the end? What effect do they have? 4 What does the poem make you think about? BOOK CLUB Discuss the questions in pairs or groups Do you think the poet is just talking about Egypt? Why/why not? • Does the poem make you think about other things you can do to help the Earth? Share them with your group. • Write a short poem of 4-6 lines of your own about the environment or the weather. Share it with the class. UNIT 5 65 65