Activitate 1.1.

Exemplu interesant (60 min)

Teacher: Paraschiv Luiza

Class: 12th Grade
Level: Advanced
Topic:
Aims: to develop students’ fluency
to enhance creative thinking
to develop literary awareness

Focus:
Reading;
Writing;
Listening;
Discussion;
Materials:
The poem: “ I’m nobody” by Emily Dickinson
Resources: PPT, computer, projector, notes
T-Ss interaction, Ss-T interaction, Group work,
Warm- up: Who are you?
1. Write on the blackboard the question: “Who are you?”.
2. Ask your students to define themselves in terms of the indefinite pronouns and explain why they have chosen namely that pronoun (e.g. I’m
somebody because I’m a human being).
3. Let them realize what the indefinite pronouns stand for.

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 Pre-reading activity
Activity 1
1. Divide the students into pairs.
2. Distribute to each pair the scrambled lines of the poem so that they don’t see them.
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! To tell your name the livelong day

Are you nobody, too? How dreary to be somebody!

I'm nobody! Who are you? They'd banish us, you know.

To an admiring bog! How public, like a frog

1. Ask each pair to pick up two lines and imagine a situation where they can use it in a conversation.
2. Tell them to act it out.

Activity 2
1. Ask the students to look at the lines again.
2. Group those who have picked up the same lines together.
3. Challenge them to guess what the poem might be about.
4. Invite a representative from each group to write the hypothetical themes at the blackboard.