2. Type of text: poems on travel
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Listen to, read aloud and learn by heart some nice travel poems.
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Analyse some of the poems features: repetitions, alliteration and
imagery, metaphores and similes.
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Use on line dictionaries,thesaurus and rhyming dictionaries
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Learn some homophones and their spelling
● Use literal and inferential comprehension questions to
undertand texts
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Write and illustrate our own travel poem: an acrostic, a variation
of a given one
● Grammar: past tense of some irregular verbs, adjectives and
comparatives
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Learn some interesting facts about Stevenson and his life
3. Listen to Stevenson's poem
From a railway carriage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCoigg77Y4
4. From a railway carriage
By Louis Stevenson(1850 1894)
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!
5. Many ways to travel by Tony Mitton
There are may ways to travel
And one that I like
Is to zoom down a hill
On a mountain bike
There are many ways to travel
And another that is nice is to slide on a sledge
On the snow and ice
There are may ways to travel
And isn’t it fun
To sail on the sea
In the wind and sun?
There are many ways to travel
But the best by far
Is to ride on a rocket
To a distant star.
6. Meet the author and visit his website:
http://www.tonymitton.co.uk/#/top-secret-header-page/4534269857
7. Choose one of these 2 poems to listen to:
Growing or My hat
8. Type of texts: booking forms, hotel brochures,
boarding cards, timetables, travel blogs
Build up vocabulary connected with travelling: verbs, prepositions,
means of transport, accomodation
Practice useful questions about booking procedures, timetables,
duration of the trip, accomodation, weather forecast and traveling
requirements
Use the Internet to make good travel choices: flights, offers,
accomodation reviews, travel tips, blogs.
Revise vocabulary to talk about time,
Pack for an imaginary journey a way of transport, a destination and
things to take with you.
Describe different types of luggage and learn how to fill in a lost
luggage claim form
