UNIT 2

3 Telling
Water Tall Tales

Text types proverb, descriptive poem, haiku, short story, magazine article, reference book entry, magazine feature, brochure
identifying key facts, summarising, sequencing, paraphrasing, identifying writer’s effects, analysing sound effects in poetry, interpreting
Reading skills
figurative language, poetry comparison
Writing skills describing a process, writing figuratively, imaginative descriptive poem, writing concisely, imaginative descriptive account
Speaking and
arriving at consensus with a partner, feeding back to class, advising a partner, listening to others’ ideas, reading haiku aloud
listening skills
semi-colons, non-sentences, synonyms, collective nouns, phrases with past participles, irregular past participles, countable and uncountable
Language skills
nouns
Coursebook answers Activities 2b, 3a/b, 4, 5b, 6a, 7a/c, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14a/b
Workbook answers Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Worksheet Worksheet 3: Descriptive poem and prose
Handout Descriptive approaches (Coursebook Activity 9)
3A ‘The sea’, James Reeves
3B ‘The bay’, James K. Baxter
3C Haiku
3D ‘A drink of water’ (abridged short story), Samuel Selvon
Texts
3E Toys spend 20 years at sea
3F Encyclopedia entries: walking sharks and leatherback turtles
3G The life of a Sri Lankan stilt fisherman
3H Water sports activities in New Zealand
• creation myths based on water, e.g. physics.mercer.edu/balduz/sci105/creationMyths/creationMythsF07.htm, which includes different
cultures, e.g. Egyptian, Native American, Samoan, Philippines
• Water haikus: russbaleson.hubpages.com/hub/The-Sound-of-Water---Over-200-of-the-best-Haiku
Further recommended • ‘Roof can fool sun, but roof can’t fool rain’, Caribbean poem by John Agard
resources • short stories about the sea: ‘Through the tunnel’, Doris Lessing; ‘At sea’, Guy de Maupassant
• extracts from famous sea stories, e.g. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville; Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, S.T. Coleridge (with illustrations by Gustave Doré)
• ‘Coromandel Fishers’, Sarojini Naidu: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/coromandel-fishers/comments

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 UNIT 3 Water

• Students research and compare water proverbs from different cultures.

• Hold a class water haiku competition.
• As a class, research and read folk tales about the sea, e.g. The fish and the ring (English), The fisherman and his wife (Grimm), The golden
Further activities fish (Russian), The sea maiden (Scottish). Discuss their similarities and morals.
• Make an anthology of poems from different cultures on the topic of water.
• Working in a group, students design a bottled water product, name it, give it a logo and strap line, describe it in advertising copy, decide
on an advertising image and colour scheme, and make an A4 magazine advert for evaluation and display.

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