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Writing poetry is not as difficult for students as it may first appear. It involves students at an emotional level and increases their desire to learn as they feel a genuine need to express themselves in English. It also develops their imagination.

We'd like you to write a haiku and illustrate it with a picture. (Don't forget to use picasa to resize the picture if necessary) //Haiku//-poems consist of respectively 5, 7 and 5 syllables in three units. Each //haiku// must contain a //kigo//, a season word, which indicates in which season the //haiku// is set. Examples of haikus:

"No one travels Along this way but I, This autumn evening" -Basho, Matsuo (1644-1694)

"Green frog, Is your body also freshly painted? Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (l882-1927)

With primary students you can write adjective poems and illustrate them with a picture. They consist of six lines which develop a series of adjectives to describe a single topic or action. You have to follow this pattern; Line 1: noun Line 2: same noun+is or are+adjective1 Line 3: same noun+is or are+adjective1,adjective2 Line 4: same noun+is or are+adjective1,adjective2, adjective3 Line 5: Adjective 1, 2, 3, 4 Line 6: New related noun

You can create it with Picasa

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**// Fog //** // ** Fog is white ** // // ** Fog is white, wet ** // // ** Is white, wet, thick ** // // ** White, wet, thick, cold ** // // ** Morning ** //