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ACTIVITY WORKSHEET FOR “B2 SUPPORT” PROJECT
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14. ACTIVITY NAME: I COME FROM – A POEM
MAIN GOAL(S):
Writing a poem ‘I come from’, reflecting your own life and/or a place where
you are from
LEVEL:
lower intermediate to advanced
TIME:
45 minutes
PREPARATION: Listen to the poem on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwjMRcae4Ps
PROCEDURE: 1. Work with the following sample poem, for example listen to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwjMRcae4Ps , the being to put down
things you hear /the things the writer comes from/. THis poem is not suitable
for lower levels. You can proceed to step two from the beginning, or you can
create your own sample according to step two and share it with your
students.
A Text for the I Come From Poem from YouTube:
‘I come from... I come from blood fruit mango...Cashew nuts...Frozen fish
fingers, dirty dishes and council gas heaters. I come from concrete and coal,
spaghetti Bolognese and shiny new BMXs... From tea-tree oil, marijuana
vapours, the damp heat of laundrettes...Holey jeans and moulded Mary bottles
of ‘made in china’ holy water. I come from a world of miniature...Of
powerlessness, of over-sized furniture and scruffy trainers. Three steps to
mummy’s one plastic dinosaur and power rangers. I come from the motorways
my friend...From the same journey three times a month...Like some weary old
heart that takes a week to beat, to beat out our old battered blood cell red
Fiat...Compelling it to crawl over the spinal cord of these British Isles just one
more time. I come from heartbreak. Or, more formally viewed underneath the
withering eye of the divorce courts...Bisection of these bicuspid valves, the
crack in my heart widens into a crevasse. I come from rainbows and
thunderclouds, from ladybirds and dragonflies. From fighting with fireworks
on streets... Hop, skip, hope to miss the syringes. I come from steel and
sandstone...Asphalt and coniferous forest. I come from sweat, smell and the
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