This lesson is designed to help students review the literary elements in lyric poems. Through this lesson, students will be able to compare different types of lyric poems and appreciate them from different perspectives. They will also learn, through this lesson, how the stylistic techniques used in the poems help illustrate the theme. To acquaint students with poetry by an African American poet from the Harlem Renaissance. This lesson will serve as a springboard for student written poetry.

So I Ain’t No Good Girl” by Sharon Flake is a short story about a rebellion teenage girl going through a realistic problem in a relationship. This worksheet contains reading comprehension and reading analysis questions , language and vocabulary tasks and two responsive writing prompts.

As a follow up to our study of different poetic forms and techniques, students now begin to see poetry in the music they listen to every day. This is collaborative presentation in which groups of 5 students select some meaningful issue in the study of poetry and popular lyrics, take a position on that issue, analyze it as if it is a poem and then present an argument to the whole class. My resource consists of PDF document and PowerPoint presentation. I included : Description and instructions Procedure and Tips Structure of presentation Group members - roles Guidelines for good oral presentation List and Examples of Literary Devices Peer and teacher evaluation / evaluation criteria In -class essay (an exmaple)

This is just a short presentation to review Reported Speech questions,commands and requests. It contains grammar rules and famous quotations for exercise. I hope you will find it useful.

This worksheet can be used as an introduction to direct speech by using short animated movie. I have included a presentation and link to video that I used in classroom.

Worksheet on Zero Conditional based on short text with lots of exercises.

Topicabout mental illness provides a window into stress and the toll it takes on young people. Youth today are experiencing more stress and anxiety than ever before. As a teacher you never know exactly what students are dealing with in their lives so topics that they can directly relate to should be treated very delicately. Through this (and not only this) unit students will have a better understanding and respect for individuals who are dealing with issues of depression, alienation and stress. Teachers can help normalize these feelings and behaviors through everyday discussion, everyday interaction and finding ways to help develop an understanding of the students experience. This lesson plan includes step by step lesson plan for teachers, students worksheet with warm up activity, comprehension questions, vocabulary and language exercises, role play activity. It is based on famous Radiohead song Just. Enjoy!

This is fun lesson plan with lots of listening and speaking activities that are text based. Students worksheet explores topic of IQ and EQ.

This is weet and cheerful material for your class. It is about Distorted Fairy Tales, but the material is intended for slightly older children. We start the class with an introductory quiz about fairy tales, followed by a task in which we determine the elements of a fairy tales. In the second part, we read and work on the text comparing the two versions of Little Red Riding Hood. At the end, the students write their Twisted Fairy Tale and we hold a class fairy tale writing competition. Peer feedback is included in this material. I hope you will enjoy this cheerful material. I would love to hear your opinion, so please leave a comment. Thanks

This material is an abridged text of Max Shulman’s excellent story Love Is a Fallacy. The first part of the lesson consists of reading comprehension and answering questions The second part is dedicated to Language in Use (words and phrases from the text), then a grammar task - reported speech and finally a task for creative writing. I hope you will like it and find it useful. If you like the material, please leave a comment. Thanks

Talking about death is always difficult, especially for young people. The aim of this material is to encourage students to think and talk about the topic of death by introducing various sources and different ways people deal with tragic losses. I hope it will be of use to you. My students were more than engaged during the lessons.

Short and sweet introduction to Passive Voice.