SoundsGames

Games with Sounds

Goal(s)

Rules

Title

To practice the sounds of the English language by producing simple end-of-verse rhymes;

Produce as many pairs of words as you can ending with the same sound(s);

Rhymes

Insert each word in a card;

To develop the capacity of recognise English sounds and join them accordingly;

Set the class into groups or pairs;

Give each one some words mixed up;

To improve the poetic skills around simple form & content stanzas.

Ask them to join those which make use of the same sounds;

Students must produce a four-verse poem using the pairs of words as rhymes.

Impossibilia

To improve the students imagination;

Teacher gives examples of non-sense poems;

The class must analyse the poems to understand how they work;

To play with the established order of things.

Students draw conclusions on how the poems invert the traditional order of things;

Students try to create their own poems.

Diamond Poems

To Improve skills on rhymes;

Teacher explains how the game works;

Teacher shows example(s) of diamond poems;

To develop capacity of expressing personal ideas/ feelings through poetry.

Students try to produce similar poems using their own material.

Skeleton Poems

The teacher provides a "skeleton" pattern for a poem;

To Improve skills on rhymes;

To develop capacity of expressing personal ideas/ feelings through poetry.

Students will try to build the missing parts by analysing content/form and approaching the original essence/ intention(s) of the poem.

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