BBC Teach: Writing and Performance Poetry Live

Lesson – Reading Aloud

Do you have a favourite word? Is it because of the way it sounds?

Write your favourite word here then pass it to a partner and give
them directions on how it should be read.

Change Happens
Annotate the poem to show which words you would
Time is a sprinter. read:
If you don’t watch your days, seasons slip • Excitedly
silently away.
• Anxiously
We bow down our heads to the magic of
the screen, • Miserably

But the world still spins like a strictly come • Gleefully

dancer • In a Panic
And change sings its song, like it has done You don’t have to use all of these emotions and you
for eons, can add your own.
Ticking and hissing along. Use initials (bold above) to show annotations.
If you don’t look up - Read the poem to your partner in a way that emphasises
you’ll miss it. these emotions.

Now swap so that you read it with the opposite emotion, e.g. gleeful becomes miserable.

What effect does this have?

Do you think that the poem should be read slowly or quickly? Should it be quiet or loud?

Practise reading it in different ways. Do certain words change the way you read?

Explain below how you would read it and why.

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