Procedure on studying Voica [the dead brother's song]

1. VOICA
THE DEAD BROTHER SONG
Romanian version

2. Audio visual materials
Voica is the Romanian version of The
Dead Brother Song, piece of material
which was selected for our Travelling
Words Erasmus+ project.
Enjoy!

3. Step I
Select and work on
materials.
This was done by our M1
Erasmus+ team –
Alexandra, Bianca,
Diana & Medina

4. Activity Layout
The team researched the poem online.
The poem was presented to the class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcY
hcNFbSs
The students listened to the poem.

5. The English equivalent was also presented
to the class and students were asked to
compare the two versions and find
similarities between them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Bro
ther's_Song

6. The poem was presented to two classes of
different age groups in order to work on it
from different perspectives.
Group 1 – the eighth graders – identified
common symbols and meanings.

8. Voica Brotherly
love
Rise from the
dead
Supernatural
powers
Balad or
legend?

9. The second group, fifth graders, worked on
common characters and the relationship
between them.
The aim of the activity:
- Read and understand part of a poem in
English;
- Correlate characters between the
Romanian and the English version;
- Revise vocabulary – family members;
- Family tree – follow up activity

11. Characters
•Nine brothers & one sister
•Distressed mother
Common
words
•Family related words
•Movement verbs
• Impressive adjectives
Vocab
practice
• crossword puzzle
• word snake

12. Follow up activity
The students were asked to listen to the
Greek version of the poem, just to “sense
the emotion” and compare it to the
“feeling” of the Romanian one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pM
clm0CRc

13. Conclusions
Students found the poem a bit too long,
nonetheless, interesting.
The eighth graders understood it because
they were able to correlate it with some
Romanian themes and motifs.
The fifth graders enjoyed the follow up
activities and worked on the puzzles
thoroughly.