Тема: Bards of Love.

Цели: познакомить учащихся разных классов (8-11) с наилучшими примерами творчества англоязычной поэзии; развивать коммуникативную компетенцию учащихся и их поэтические способности.

I. Warming-Up

- What is lyric poetry? What kinds of lyric poems do you know?

- Fill in the rose.

(Civic, love, landscape, philosophical)

- What most famous English and American poets do you know?

II. Content Anticipation 1. Listen to the famous song and try to guess the theme of our meeting.

2. What do you think we’ll talk about? What is love? Give the definition of love. (из Библии)

3. There are many kinds of love. What are they? (Love to a person, love to your family, love to yourself, love to your country, and love to the beauty of the world)

"All Things are Bright and Beautiful” "Teddy Bear” – Alan Alexander Milne

III. Language Anticipation

- What do you feel when you are in love?

Use the vocabulary from the box to describe your feelings.

IV. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote three types of plays: comedies, tragedies and histories He also wrote narrative poems, sonnets and lyric poetry. Shakespeare’s sonnets are among the most well known sonnets in the English language, creating a standard by which others are judged.

(The typical rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg)

"All the World’s a Stage” from "As You Like It”

Many Shakespeare’s sonnets have a common theme: the healing influence of friendship or love; comments on the relation of love and time (time cannot defeat love’s constancy).

Sonnets XCI (91) 130 XC (90) XXV

V. The beauty of the language makes these sonnets better than the others.

The song "The Times for Us” (from "Romeo and Juliet”)

Video about Robert Burns

VI. Scotland! This beautiful country inspired Robert Burns to write so many wonderful poems about its countryside and its people… He felt a special bond with the Highlands. Video of Scotland View

"My Heart in the Highlands” "Flow gently, sweet Afton” "Bonnie Bell” - R. Burns

VII. Robert Burns wrote many kinds of poems, some of them satirical, others vulgar, but he is best known for his songs. Burns collected folk songs, often reworking them. These love songs are as serious as they are simple, retaining much of the old ballads from which they sprang. John Barleycorn - R.Burns

VII. The feelings in each poem are an expression of love between man and woman. The poem sounds like the declaration of love. A Red, Red Rose; Clarinda, Mistress of My Soul; Charlie, He’s My Darling - R. Burns

VIII. Robert Burns is famous all over the world for his song ‘Auld Lang Syne’. Let’s try to sing it.

IX. William Blake is something of a special case. His strikingly original work seems to have come from our century, although Blake did much of his work in the late 1700’s. He was Romantic. He wrote about love and life.

X. The song about love.

XI. Another Romantic poet was George Gordon Byron (1788-1824). In his poems we can feel the "romantic” mixture of dark and bright. The lady’s beauty is compared to that of a clear starry night, "that tender light” of the moon and stars.

"When we two Parted” - G.G. Lord Byron "Love and Death” - G.G. Lord Byron

XII. Modern poetry deals with the eternal theme of Love About Love - Edgar Allan Poe, E. Dickinson, Elizabeth Jennings, Robert Frost "The Objection of being Stepped in” - Robert Frost "Messy Room” - Sheil Silverstein X IV. Writing Your Own Poetry

1. Let's try to make your own poems about spring using the technique of cinquain poems. This poem is five lines long with certain words in each line.

Line 1 — a noun.

Line 2 — 2 adjectives.

Line 3 — 3 "ing" words.

Line 4 — a sentence or a phrase. Line 5 — a synonym for the noun.

Spring

lovely, pretty,

flowering, smiling, singing

Trees are in blossom

Awakening.

2. Pair up and make up your own poems concerning love using new techniques:

diamond poems and colour poems.

1. Diamond poem.

Line 1: a noun Love

Line 2: 2 adjectives Sweet Happy

Line 3: 3 participles I Exciting Smiling Brimming

Line 4: 4 nouns. Happiness Joy Warmth Peace

Line5: 3 participles I. Loving Thinking Praising

Line 6: 2 adjectives. Dreamy Beautiful

Line 7: a noun. Love

2. Colour Poem.

e.g. White is the colour of the snow.

White is the colour of your hair

White is the colour of your wedding-dress. Заключительное слово президента клуба и подведение итогов.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath hat from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound:

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

W. Shakespeare