HE HAD SUCH QUIET EYES

by BIBSY SOENHARJO

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The poem is about a persona, a lady who fell for the
wrong man. She was fascinated with his ¶quiet eyes· and
believed that his eyes showed his true emotion and
feelings for her. The man·s eyes had the power to
charm her and made her believe him and be nice to
him.
However, the man was actually a ¶pleasure seeking
man·, a flirt. As the lady was truly fascinated and
charmed by the man, she did not listen or did not want
to listen to any advice concerning the man·s true
behaviour. In the end, she realized her error and was
broken hearted.
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 Worksheet 1: Do You Know Me?

Draw, colour and
label the eyes.
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different types of eyes.

ÔTell them to list in writing the words

friendsÑ eyes.
describing their friendsÑ

ÔIntroduce adjectives into the lesson via the

labeling activity.
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Aims
 To read poem aloud with correct
stress, intonation, pronunciation
and expression
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The Poetry Text

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1. Tell students to make two big circles in
the classroom. Each group consists of 19
students.

2. Get a student to read a line, starting from

the title, followed by the name of the poet
Bibsy Soenharjo and the seventeen lines of
the poem.
D. Encourage students to read with
expression and tell them to try to
memorise the lines.
4. Once the reading starts, it must be
continuous so that the chain ( flow )
will not be broken.
5. Let the students read a few rounds to
be familiar with the poem.
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 To introduce rhythm in a fun way
 To train students in spelling

 To encourage team work in a fun

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 Worksheet 2: Put Me Straight
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 Get students to sit in groups of D  4.

 Hand out Worksheet 2 to them. Tell

students to unscramble the letters to form
words that will in turn form short
sentences from the poem.

 The group that is able to unscramble all the

sentences correctly wins.
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Toidentify meanings of
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 BINGO cards

 Strips
of paper denoting
meanings of words
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 Teacher prepares the BINGO cards in
advance. Each student will be given a
BINGO card / paper ( Hollywood
Squares ) with different combinations
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 Teacher must prepare strips with meanings of
the rhyming words of this poem in advance.
  Sets rules for this game, for e.g
Letxxs play Diagonal Line

Let Line

( or vertical / horizontal line ).

 Studentsmust wait for the teacher

to draw a Meaning Strip from a
bag/envelope / box and reads out
the phrase /word /sentence loudly.
Students look for the one
word which has the same
meaning to the Meaning
Strips drawn.

 Strike out the word.

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card until all the nine words are
struck out to play
FULL HOUSE.

 Thefirst student who had struck

out ë thethe words on the card
and shouted
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first, will win.
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or verb tense.
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but it depends on who will be more alert to
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 The Poem

 Worksheet D
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ÔDistribute worksheet D to the students
ÔHaiku poems have a specific pattern. Introduce
the pattern to the students. Haiku has D lines
and 17 syllables. The first and last lines have 5
syllables each while the second line has 7
ÔGive students phrases taken from the poem as
the first line.
ÔTell students to complete the haiku with their
own words .
Ô Give them the following instructions:
 The chair is a hot seat.
 The person sitting on the chair is suspected to be Mr Nobody.
 Students are to ask Mr Nobody questions about what he does. This is
where the content of the poem comes in useful. This is a perfect
opportunity to practise wh
whÑÑ questions.
 NobodyÑs other wrongdoings (which
Students can also ask about Mr. NobodyÑ
may not be in the poem). Let their imagination run!
 Mr. Nobody has to refute/deny their accusations. His role is to
convince the group that he is not Mr Nobody. Alternatively, his role
could be to convince them that he is not guilty of any wrongdoings as
mentioned in the poem.

Ô Get other students to try out the HOT SEAT.

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