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ACTIVITY WORKSHEET FOR “B2 SUPPORT” PROJECT
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4. ACTIVITY NAME: MY POEM – getting to know activity
MAIN GOAL(S):
KEY
GRAMMAR/
VOCABULARY
LEVEL:
ice breaker – getting to know each other activity for the first class of students
who do not know each other – usually the beginning of a school term
present simple 3 rd person
hobbies
past simple
intermediate
You can make the sentences easier or harder to make it appropriate for the
level of students you want to use it with. This is a universal activity.
TIME:
PREPARATION:
PROCEDURE:
45 minutes
Have a word document to display with MY POEM about yourself (the teacher)
and a word document with an empty template. Next, have the empty
template copy for each student. (Students can write it to their exercise-books
or on a blank sheet of paper too.)
1. Ask students: Do you write poems anyone?
SS answer.
Tell students: I have written a poem about myself. Do you want to hear it?
SS: Yes 
2. Project the MY POEM on screen and read it aloud. Always repeat your
name after each line. The poem finishes with your surname. SS listen.
Check the meaning of any words SS do not understand.
Ask SS if they have any comment/question about your poem and answer.
3. Tell students: Now you are going to be the poets.
Project the empty template MY POEM on the screen. Hand out the copies
for students to fill in about themselves. Go around the classroom, monitor
and help when needed. Quick finisher can add more lines to the poem.
4.
A) After SS are finished, they should make pairs and read the poems to each
other. They can ask questions each other about the things in the poem.
B) Stick the poems on the wall of the classroom, let students stand up, walk
around and just read the poems. After that you can discuss what they
remember about their classmates, or who is similar to them, has the same
hobby, etc.
C) Ask individual students to read the poem in front of the classroom. They
must always repeat their name after each line, the poem finishes with their
surname.
5. optional – you can discuss with SS what makes a poem a poem
6. Evaluate the activity, for example with thumbs method   .
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