This series gives teachers, trainers and trainee teachers practical guidance in key aspects of language teaching. Each book includes an introduction and up to 100 classroom ideas, materials and techniques. The activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers all the information they need about appropriate level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, variations and follow up activities.
Creative Poetry Writing' has been written to give teachers practical ideas for teaching language through poetry. It includes:
- a wide variety of simple to use activity types
- sample poems written by students and published poets
- suitable activities for teenagers and adults for elementary to advanced level
- activities which encourage students to experiment with sound and rhythm
- specific forms of language practised in a creative manner
- gradual progression from sounds through words to more complex structures
- an extra element of production and performance to add to the language syllabus
1 Sound poems
2 Wordplay poems
3 Wordmixing poems
4 Sentence pattern poems
5 Time poems
6 Modal verb poems
7 Language function poems
8 Genre poems
9 Poetry games
10 Poems as stories: Go and open the door
Appendix 1 Peetry forms
Appendix 2 Glossary of key words
Further reading
Index