poetry

MOTHER ( A poem composed by my father )

marrie — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:11:23 +0000

MOTHER

A child she bore but was unseen,

Poetry in the ESOL/ EFL CLassroom

mbache — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:34:40 +0000

Only connect… “Sensings, mountings from the hiding places,Words entering almost the sense of touch” - Seamus Heaney Those of us working in ESOL may have reflected ruefully on the Gradgrindian ut

Poetry in the classroom

admin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:33:16 +0000

* Yes, I use it a lot * I use poetry sometimes * I hardly ever use poetry * No, never * I don't know how I would use poetry

Celebr8 by Levi Tafari

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:00:00 +0000

‘Celebr8' is a poem about inclusion and diversity. It is by the Liverpool based poet Levi Tafari, himself of Jamaican origin.

Using poems to develop receptive skills

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

I like to bring poetry into the classroom because I believe that it is important and motivating for students to work with authentic texts.

Liverpool

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

For the first time, materials for the BritLit project have been produced outside of Portugal, where the project began. Teachers working on BritLit in Hungary have been busily devising a new approach,

Using poems to develop productive skills

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:00 +0000

You and your students might already enjoy reading and listening to poetry in your own language and perhaps in English too. Poems are, after all, authentic texts.

English sentence stress

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Sentence stress is a difficult area to work on for learners and teachers alike. For this reason it's also an area which is often neglected, but this aspect of the language can cause problems for learners in both their speaking and perhaps more importantly listening.