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Weekly English Poetry
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Weekly English
Poetry
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Weekly outline
This week you will be thinking of your favourite food and what it looks, smells and tastes like. You will be generating ideas to describe your favourite food and dishes using adjectives, noun phrases and similes. Then you will write your own poem, using your best ideas to describe the fantastic food commenting on its presentation and rich flavours. So get cooking, tasting and writing!
Date
22/06/2020
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Date: 22/06/2020Warm up
Read the words and find out the meanings of the words you don’t know.Write a few sentences with the new words to show you have understood their meanings.
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Date: 22/06/2020
Warm up
Using your senses, describe what these dishes look, smell and taste like. Pack as many describing language into your sentences as you can!
Example:Chicken nuggets have a golden, crispy top layer that crunches when I bite. But the inside is soft and tender and tastes delicious.
The bold words in my example are the adjectives that describe chicken nuggets. Use similar adjectives to describe the food.
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Monday 22nd June 2020.LI: To generate ideas that describe my favourite food.
What is your favourite food? Draw and label it.
Task: Write words and phrases to describe the way your favourite dish looks, sounds, tastes, smells, the sensation of eating it, where, and with whom you eat it.Use the adjectives from the first slide to make your description detailed.
skinnylong
aromatic
Date
23/06/2020
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Date: 23/06/2020Warm up
Look at the picture of food. Which one do you like? Why? Use the conjunction ‘because’ to explain your answer.
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Warm up
Choose at least two adjectives from the lists on either side of the slide to describe these foods.
Example:Meaty, flavoursome, crunchy pizza…
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Tuesday 23rd June 2020.LI: To write sentences that contain adjectives and noun phrases.
Task
Use the words and phrases from the previous lesson to write sentences to describe your favourite dish.
Example:Spaghetti is my favourite food because I like the savoury taste of meatballs and the zingy flavour of tomato sauce. Besides, it is most fun to eat it as I swirl it around the fork and suck it up slurping loudly. When I look at the pile of orange spaghetti, it reminds me of skinny, long worms. Yum!
Bold words are powerful descriptive words.
Date
24/06/2020
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Date: 24/06/2020
Warm up
Look at the pictures of the food and read examples of adjectives, Choose the best adjectives to describe the food. Write down your adjectives underneath the food.
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Wednesday 24th June 2020.LI: To write the first verse of my poem using my notes.
Today you are going to write a poem about your favourite food, using your notes from the previous lessons.The layout of the poem is going to be similar to Spaghetti! Spaghetti! by Jack Relutsky.Re-read it.
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Wednesday 24th June 2020.LI: To write the first verse of my poem using my notes.
Task
Complete the first verse of the poem using your notes. Give your poem a catchy title. Make the first verse about what your favourite food looks like.
Remember:Your poem doesn’t have to rhyme!Make sure new line with a capital letter!
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Example:
Date
25/06/2020
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Date: 25/06/2020 Warm up
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Thursday 25th June 2020.LI: To write the second verse of my poem using my notes.
Today you are going to write a poem about your favourite food using your notes from the previous lessons.The layout of the poem is going to be similar to Spaghetti! Spaghetti! by Jack Relutsky.Re-read it.
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Thursday 25th June 2020.LI: To write the second verse of my poem using my notes.
Write the second verse of the poem. Make it about what your favourite food tastes like. Remember to use your brilliant ideas from the previous lessons.
Success criteria:• Use your ideas
from previous lessons.
• Write descriptive sentences.
• Start each line with a capital letters.
• Make sure your sentences make sense.
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Example:
Date
26/06/2020
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Date: 26/06/2020Warm up
Improve these boring sentences by adding adjectives. Re-write the improved sentences.
Example:The little boy eats a sticky, sweet, orangepopsicle.
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Friday 26th June 2020.LI: To improve and re-draft my poem.
Task
Read the poem Chocolate! Chocolate! Did you like it? Why?How can you improve it? Can you add more adjectives? Can you change some of the better ones? You can write around the poem or cross out the adjectives and writing new adjectives above.
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Friday 26th June 2020.LI: To improve and re-draft my poem.
Task
Now re-read the poem you wrote yesterday.Think of ways to improve it. Can you add even more adjectives? Can you change some of the adjectives you used yesterday for the better ones?Copy your improved poem in neat. Remember to position your letters neatly on the line.
Success criteria:• Re-read your poem.• Improve it by adding more adjectives or changing them.• Copy the improved poem in neat.• Start each line with a capital letter.• Make sure your letter sit on the line.
