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English Poetry Party

Teacher:

 -Hello, everyone!

We’re glad to see you here .Hope, you’ll like the words, which you’re going to hear today. Maybe some of them, mentioned here, are known to you.

But we’d like to show you the beauty of poetry and we’d like you to feel the power of the words. The person who feels the poems with their heart is always kinder, more patient and  as optimist, believes in beauty. Poetry is like music. Maybe some of you don’t like to read poems, but we do. And that’s why we decided to bring only small piece of it to you.

P1:Let’s start.

Life is a gift. We can’t be sorry for living in this world. We should enjoy living in it. We think that wisdom of life lies in living it in full swing.

Wisdom by Mother Teresa.

P2:American and English literature is very rich.

We know many famous names such as Shakespeare, Byron, Mark Twain, Kipling and others.

Some our pupils have prepared short poems of famous English writers. The poem “My heart’s in the Highlands” by Robert Bums, is known, I think, all over the world.

He sings of the beauty of Scotland where he spent all his life. He admires “the green valleys, mountains high covered with snow, and wild hanging woods”

My Heart’s in the Highlands (R. Burns)

P1:Rudyard Kipling is an English writer. He wrote many wonderful poems and tales, short stories about India, children’s stories about animals and some books on history. In 1907 Kipling was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. He was the first writer and the first Englishman who was awarded this prize.

Six Serving Men (R. Kipling).

P2:William Shakespeare is one of the world’s greatest writers. He wrote the plays for the theatre, many sonnets and poems. The best Shakespeare’s works, written hundreds of years ago, are very popular nowadays. They

are translated into many languages and they are read and loved by the people all over the world.

Poem from tragedy  Hamlet. ” To Be, or Not to Be.

(W. Shakespeare).

P1:And now listen to the poem “Those Evening Bells” by the English poet Thomas Moore.

             Those Evening Bells ( by  Thomas Moore).

P2:American colonists were people who respected the Indians. One of them is Henry Longfellow. Listen to his poem “The Arrow and the Song”.

The Arrow and the Song (H. Longfellow).

P1:A patriotic song “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin has been considered America’s unofficial an­them, since “The Star-Spangled Ban­ner” has difficult   lyrics and a difficult tune.

 Can you recite it?

P2. Of course, I can.

        “  God Bless America”

           ( by Irving Berlin)

P1:I think it will be interesting to listen to the “Testament” by Taras Shevchenko  in English

“Testament” by Taras Shevchenko

P2:Love is the highest value of life. We cannot be happy without love to our Motherland, parents, friends or without love to a person. In love we give a hand to another, in love we change and make other people happy. In love all people are beautiful.

Let’s listen to the poem   

                                         “My Motherland”.

                                        “Who Loves the Trees Best?”

                                        “Just Smile To Me”

                                         “                                                      ”

P1:I think everyone wants to know the answer on the question ”What is the art of living?”  Let’s listen to the poem by Emily Matthews and try to find this answer.

                  What is the art of living? 

                  (by Emily Matthews)

T: Dear children, we enjoyed your reciting very much. You were beautiful. It seems to me you like English very much, so I hope our party was a successful one. Thank you for taking an active part in our party.

Best wishes to you!