Teaching English through poems and short stories Why is it absent from so many efl classrooms?

Pedro Giraldi:

Julia Abend:

The flowers are so

Beautiful! So much peace and Love – togetherness.

Gabriel Giro:

The flowers are so

Graceful, they make me feel so Relaxed and in peace.

Matheus Durante:

Peace and calmness, so Beautiful and colourful, Just like a rainbow.

White flowers are so

Graceful and with those green leaves – Peace all around us.

Nicole Navarro:

Spring is so peaceful

In Japan or anywhere… Nature – always there.

Creating a Found Poem

Your Favourite Song

• Ask them individually to name their favourite song
• Give students strips of paper with the fifth line of each song
• As they listen to the songs, they have to identify the lines
• Make students compare their answers
• When all the sentences are identified, ask them to arrange them in any order they wish to make a poem
• Ask them to read each of the poems out loud

Open your eyes,

Life’s what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans

Whenever I’m alone with you

I go to the other side of Paradise

It will be just a perfect day And if thou should ask my love

I’ll love you more with every breath

And build a ladder to the stars

Do you dream to touch me and smile down deep inside?

Oh, God help the beast in me! I knew, I knew, I’d lose you

You’ve got to learn although it’s very hard

Songs:

• Take me to the other side, Arisha
• Beautiful Boy, John Lennon
• Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
• Lovesong, The Cure
• Just a perfect day, Lou Reed
• Truly, Madly Deeply, Savage Garden
• Thorn in my pride, Black Crowes
• The Beast in me, Johnny Cash
• No need to argue, The Cranberries
• You’ve got to learn, Charles Aznavour
• Forever young, Bob Dylan
• Jamie come to me, Robert Burns (poem)