Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 128
Cinquain
Cinquain template
Syllables
Model cinquain
Line 1: Name of a friend
2 syllables
Sally
Line 2: Adjectives describing
4 syllables
Sure, strong, honest
your friend
Line 3: Verbs which apply to
6 syllables
Learn, think, ride, walk,
your friend
listen
Line 4: Adverbs which apply to
8 syllables
Here, near, together, 
your friend
quietly
Line 5: Similar word to line 1
2 syllables
Best friend
Follow-up
• The children make friendship cards. They write their cinquain onto a
card and decorate it and then give the card to a friend.
• Cinquains can be written about any topic. You could choose an animal,
e.g. spider; food, e.g. ice cream; a relative, e.g. sister; a sport, e.g. tennis;
an aspect of nature, e.g. jungle; the weather, e.g. rainbow. Every time you
want to revise some aspect of vocabulary, you could use this activity.
• For other poems and tongue twisters, see Activities 1.6, 4.5.
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