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ESSARP Courses
P111 - Poems and Songs for Very Young People
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Beatriz Koessler de Pena Lima
Beatriz Koessler de Pena Lima holds an MA in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, Uk andis a lecturer in British Literature and Literature in the Language class at both I.S.P. "J. V. González" and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández". She teaches and coordinates the teaching of literature at Moorlands School. She often works as a materials designer for the British Council and for Pearson Education. Together with Professor Leonor Corradi, she's the author of the Storyline series.
Primary school teachers.
The aim of this course will be to help teachers:
- Incorporate poems and songs into their language class in the belief that both are among the most child-friendly of all genres. - Get acquainted with the great variety of poems and songs which can be easily accessed by beginner and pre-intermediate level kids. - Borrow the patterns of poems and songs to make kids engage in creative reading and writing, activities. - Relate rhymes and songs in English to similar ones in Spanish for kids to establish cross-cultural links - Feel less intimidated by songs and sing in and out of tune!
- List poems.
- Patterned poems. - Riddles. - Nursery rhymes (cumulative rhymes, counting rhymes, round rhymes, etc.) - Sanitized limericks. - American and British folk songs. - Pop songs.
- Tim Murphey (1994) Music and Song Oxford: OUP.
- eds. Iona and Peter Opie (1997) The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes Oxford:OUP. - Participants will be provided with a handout with excerpts from both texts.
A blend of text-oriented and a reader-oriented approaches to cater to mixed-ability classes.
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