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

Acrostic Poems

Name the poem:

• Once they match the names to the poems, ask them to read the poems out loud
• Ask them to describe the haiku and cinquain poems, and explain what an acrostic poem is
• Ask them to re-tell briefly some of the fairy tales they are familiar with, then read a fairy tale of your choice, different from what they know
• Ask them to write an acrostic poem: FAIRY TALES

Matheus Durante:

F irst you need to dream.

A fter that, you must feel.

I magine that fantasy is real. R eality gets so boring when Y ou learn that what is unreal T astes better just for a few.

A ll you got is nothing…

L ife has sent you no mail that day.

E verything is not real

S o live in a fairy tale.

Gabriel Delgado:

F or you,

A fairy tale I n your life R esounds Y our way T o

A nalyse the world,

L ess disturbed. But in the

E nd, this is how it is

S upposed to be.

Leonardo Puttini:

F alling down the rabbit hole,

A lice was feeling sick.

I llness took her everything,

R educing her to absolutely nothing.

Y elling in pain,

T earing her thoughts apart,

A lice could not feel anything.

L ooking for help, she shouted,

E nding noticing that she had no voice at all. S uddenly, waking from a nightmare, she felt hungry and ate the magic cake.

Thank you!

What students reported:

Vocabulary improvement

Better intonation, pronunciation

of words in general

Thinking directly in English, without any kind of translation

Close observation

Clear thinking

Limiting themselves to the essential

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