ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#103 | October 31 | ISSN 0975-3036 Subscribe to ELTWeekly (FREE) Reflective teaching means looking at what you do in the classroom, thinking about why you do…

ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#103 | October 31 | ISSN 0975-3036

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You and your students might already enjoy reading and listening to poetry in your own language and perhaps in English too. Poems are, after all, authentic texts. This is a great motivator. Poems are often rich in cultural references, and they present a wide range of learning opportunities. For me, the aim is to teach English through poetry, not to teach the poetry itself, so you don’t need to be a literature expert.

Most of the tried and tested activities used regularly by language teachers can be adapted easily to bring poetry into the classroom. (more…)