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8 Literature
CLIL:

Poetry

A Look at the words below. How many
syllables are in each word? Write 2, 3 and 4.
Then listen and check your answers.
celebrate

balloon

celebration

B Say your name out loud. Clap your hands
every time you hear a different syllable.
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How many times did you clap your hands?
How many times did you clap your hands?
C Do you know anything about haiku?
Read the information in the box. Below
are two haiku poems. Listen and read.
are two haiku poems. Listen and read.
What do you think they are about?

What is a haiku?

Haiku is a type of Japanese poetry.
Haik u is a type o f J ap anes e poetr y .
In English, a haiku is a three-line
poem with seventeen syllables.
CT
JE
RO
A haiku usually shows one moment P
in time, and tries to create a picture PROJECT
for the reader. A haiku usually Write a haiku!
includes present tenses, but it
includes pr es ent tens es, but it
doesn’t need to r h yme. Step 1: BRAINSTORM
doesn’t need to rhyme.
A Think of a special moment in your life or an experience
you had (e.g. when you learnt to ride a bike, when you saw
fireworks for the first time, the day you tried scuba diving,
when you won something, the first or last day at primary
almost-sunny days school). Imagine you are living this moment/experience
again now. How would you describe it? Write down some
and the children celebrate: notes. Use the questions to help you think of ideas.
no more school this year.

• Where are you?
• What’s the weather like?
• What are you doing?
• Who are you with?
Surfing on the beach • How do you feel?
with all the time in the world.
B What are you going to write about? Choose 2-3 of your ideas.
School is out for months!
Step 2: WRITE
Write your haiku using the ideas you have chosen.
Line 1
Line 2
D Read the haiku out loud and clap your Line 3
hands every time you say a syllable. Step 3: PROOFREAD
How many syllables are in each line?
Go through each line of your haiku and count the
Line 1: syllables number of syllables. Does your haiku follow the same
Line 2: syllables pattern as the ones in activity C? If not, how can you
change it so that it does?
Line 3: syllables
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