Gossip poem

incl. materials

oral, written

30 min.

Objectives

The learner can use words s/he hears to compose a new tekst.

Materials

• Paper and pen
• Some audio files (radio, tv, …)

Instructions

• Listen together to the chosen audio files.
  
• Tell the learners which words attracted your attention. Write them on the blackboard and create a poem/short text.
  
• Listen together to some more audio files and let the learners make a poem/short text with the words which caught their attention.
  
• Send the learners outside with the assignment to listen to conversations in the building, on the street, in a supermarket and to write down words and sentences they have picked up.
  
• On their return, let them turn those words and sentences into a ‘gossip poem’.
  
• Hang the poems on the wall.