Learning Objectives

Resources

Remarks

Language Forms and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

• Use adjective to describe people, e.g. … when I am sad
• Use connectives 'if' to express conditions, e.g. if I see you a year from now

Reading:

• Read written text in meaningful chunks
• Understand intention, attitudes and feelings conveyed in a text by the choice and use of language

Writing:

• Provide personal ideas and information based on a model or framework provided

http://www.orble.com/friendship-poetry/

Brief Description:
A poem about friendship

User Tips:

• Before reading, teachers can lead the discussion about what the students usually do with their friends.
• After reading, draw students' attention to the use of adjectives in talking about feelings.
• After reading, students could write a poem based on the framework of the poem.
• For more able students, they can read more poems by the same poet on the same webpage.

Learning Objectives

Resources

Remarks

Language Forms and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

• Use the connectives 'though, but' to show contrasting ideas, e.g. Though it's hard, must set each other free.
• Use the future tense to talk about future events, actions and processes, e.g. I will always treasure our precious times.

Reading:

• Recognize the format and language features of some common text types, e.g. poems
• Understand intention, attitudes and feelings conveyed in a text by recognizing features such as the choice and use of language

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-28-2005-67725.asp

Brief Description:
A poem about saying goodbye to friend

User Tips:

• Students can read the first few lines of the poem and guess the title of the poem.
• After reading, draw students' attention to the use of words in the poem to express the author's feeling.
• For more able students, they can read more poems related to saying goodbye (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/goodbye-poems/).