Expressing extreme emotions Working with a literary text a) Read chapter 1 of Pig-Heart Boy again. Use different colours to highlight the following techniques: • same sentence starters • other words that are repeated • short sentences b) Scan chapter 1 of Pig-Heart Boy again. Use words and phrases that describe what you can see, hear, feel and think to complete the mind map below. c) Describing what you can see, hear, feel and think is another technique writers use to … make a text sound more interesting give advice give a summary of the text Powerful poems a) Read the first four lines of the poem “I’ve been wandering in the greenwoods” by Charlotte Brontë. Match each line of the poem with a line in modern English. Draw lines. I’ve been wandering in the greenwoods To the loud song of a bird And ’mid flowery smiling plains I’ve been listening to the sound of a river I’ve been listening to the dark floods I’ve been walking around in the forest To the thrush’s thrilling strains And in nice places with lots of flowers hm67wc 6 PIG-HEART BOY seeing hearing thinking feeling c o my eyes s i e r l i t l o p r a r s r a s l n in my m d a clear f t a t o g t rises up p a n no e r t r eyes s i g 7 Info Charlotte Brontë was a very famous 19th century English writer. She wrote this poem when she was 13 years old. It was sold in 2013 for almost £100,000! In this poem, the author expresses emotions by writing about nature. You can find the full poem online. i 84 10 Unit Extreme emotions eighty-four Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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