Puedo escribir

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Puedo escribir

Contributor: Steven Fawkes

Language of text: Spanish
Type of text: Poem
Author or source: Pablo Neruda
Intended age of students: Key Stage 2/3
Source reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yanU4dFC7lU

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo: "La noche está estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos".
El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta. ...

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Approaches:
It is interesting to explore
Mood
Tone
Words we know
Repeated lines / words
Grapheme / phoneme links

Learners could interpret / translate key fragments

Recycle the idea by writing e.g. 'the most happy verses of the day'

Select another poem from an anthology or online and produce a performance / film / recording / poster for that

Rationale:
This is a beautiful film of a poem beautifully read and is enjoyable just as an example of lovely language

Outcomes:
Sense of performance
Sense of the flow of the language
Idea that language is more than just information, and that i c an have a emotional impact

Topics or themes:
Descriptive language

Grammar:
Adjectives
Modal verbs

Strategies:

How much time required:
1 lesson?

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