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little gifts / cuddle toys ( touch ) Teaching Great Poetry to Children by Rogers ( 1983) -Charles E. Merrill.
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Psychology for Language Teachers
• keys ( touch) Kenneth Koch (1973)- Vintage Books • by Marion Williams and Robert Bur-
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• sweets ( smell and taste; do not eat at * Project Work by Diana L Fricd-
once- leave sweets melt slowlyin the Booth (1986)- Oxford UniversityPress den (1997)- Cambridge University
mouth) • Using Newspapers in the Classroom Press
Time: byPaulSanderson (1999)-Cambridge * Learner-centredness as Language
20-25 minutes University Press Education by Ian Tudor (1996)- Cam-
Pictures for Language Learning by
Stage 1: • Andrew Wright- Cambridge Univcr- bridge University Press
Language and Culture by Claire
T gives materials to Ss to sense and *
experience. sity Press Kramsh (1998)- Oxford University
Caring and sharing in the foreign lan-
Press
Stage 2 : • • Culture Bound edited by Joyce
Drawing back to their personal expe- guage class by Gertrude Moskowitz Merrill Valdes-Cambridge University
riences Ss write a story or a tale or a (1978)- Newbury House Press
poem involving all the materials and / • Freedom tolearn for the80’s byCarl
or the images these evoke.
/Thestorycan begin asfollows:"Iwoke
up with a strange feeling thisSunday
morning.Everything wasso
/The frame for the poem is asfollows: Kii • still •The Magic Box
It has a refrain: T will /would put in
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the box’ which can be followed by a III
range of things Ss would put into the
magic box including the things above I will put in the box
or more according their imagination flowers of gold held together
• It should have a stanza describing 3 !
the box I ! by silverchains,
• It should contain astanza sayingwhat diamond starsand moons
the writer would do with the box
(adapted byCarter& Long1991)*
I will put in the box
Aim :
to encourageSscreative thinking and Ifffill* fill the little man from the blue moon,
fostercreativewriting : :
Comments: the sense of taste in the a marvelous day with mum and dad
humanistic tradition is claimed to be the schoolbagof a violet octopus.
interrelated with all other senses in-
cluding the extra- perception sense.
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Through the involvement of all six s My box is made out of sea shells and lightning,
senses Ss are encouraged to draw
upon personal experiences, thus fos- m 1 rainbows and golden rays of sunshine.
teringcreative thinkingand writing.

Suggested bibliography I I shall go with my box

iifeJlj to a desert island
• The Practice of English Language
Teaching by Jeremy Harmer (1991)- 8 and play alone
Longman M
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• Grammar Games by Mario kgM with the gold and silver
Rinvolucri (1984) - Cambridge Uni- 0 and touch the rainbows
versity Press
Waysof Doing by Paul Davis, Barbara where no-one will see me
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Garsideand MarioRinvolucri (1998)- i
- Cambridge University Press iSTj-U: ( poem written by an Italian EFL student)
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• Rose, where did you get that red?-
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