Promoting creativity in French lessons

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Promoting creativity in French lessons

• using a French poem.

Alice Ayel
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Year 9 a French poem.

• Objective of the lesson
• to discover French literature and poets.
• to learn new words.
• to be able to write a poem in the target language.

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Starter introduction to Verlaine and symbolism.

• I talked about Verlaine and students had to put
  parts of his life into order from when he was
  born to his death.
• Then I introduced the students to symbolism.
  Verlaine along with Rimbaud, Baudelaire and other
  poets were associated with the symbolist
  movement, a rupture from the romantics. I put
  some key words linked to symbolism and
  romanticism on http//wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/2462
  56/symbolism_in_poetry and asked the students to
  highlight the words related to symbolism.

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To identify new words that will come up in the
story.

• Students work in pairs to find the meaning of key
  words they will need to understand the poem.
• One pupil goes around the classroom and look for
  words on post-it notes. He/she memorises it, goes
  back to the other pupil who looks for the meaning
  of the word in the dictionary.

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To listen to the poem and to understand it.

• I read the poem to them and we discussed it in
  English.

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To write a poem in French.

• Students write a poem about autumn which included
  the words "Bonjour...., au revoir....". So for
  example some students wrote "Bonjour
  l'automne, au revoir l'été.Bonjour le vent, au
  revoir le soleil.Bonjour l'obscurité, au revoir
  la lumière.....
• This is a good way of making students write a
  poem in another language without being too
  complicated for them.

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Plenary peer assessment.

• pupils assess each others poems.
• They also show and read their poems to the whole
  class.

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Objectif

• découvrir un poème sur lautomne.

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Paul VERLAINE
Paul-Marie Verlaine 30 March 18448 January 1896)
was a French poet associated with the Symbolist
movement. He was elected France's "Prince of
Poets" by his peers. His poetry was admired and
recognized as ground-breaking, serving as a
source of inspiration. He is considered one of
the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle
in international and French poetry.
Paul Verlaine peint par Gustave Courbet
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Can you put the different parts of Verlaines
life in the right order?
Verlaine then meets the poet Rimbaud who will
have a great impact on him. In July 1873 in a
drunken, jealous rage, he fired two shots with a
pistol at Rimbaud, wounding his left wrist,
though not seriously injuring the poet. As an
indirect result of this incident, Verlaine was
arrested and imprisoned.
He died in Paris at the age of 51 on 8 January
1896.
Born in Metz, he began writing poetry at an early
age. His first published collection was Poèmes
Saturniens (1866) when he was 22..
Verlaine's last years saw his descent into drug
addiction, alcoholism, and poverty. He lived in
slums and public hospitals, and spent his days
drinking absinthe in Paris cafes.
Following his release from prison, Verlaine
travelled to England, where he worked for some
years as a teacher and produced another
successful collection, Sagesse.
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What is Symbolism?Highlight the words related to
it

• http//wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/246256/symbolism_in
  _poetry
• Musicality
• Images
• Moods
• Feelings
• Sounds
• Words
• Magic
• Suggestion
• Subtle

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Travail en paires.Les mots importants du poème

• Sanglot sob
• Blesser to injure, to hurt, to wound
• Langueur languor, lethargy
• Monotone
• Suffocant suffocating, stifling
• Blême pale
• Sonner to ring, to strike
• Se souvenir to remember

• Anciens ancient, old
• Pleurer to cry
• Vent wind
• Mauvais bad
• Emporter to sweep away
• Pareil similar, such
• Feuille leave
• Morte dead

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About the poem

• It is one of the best known in the French
  language. It
• is included in Verlaine's first collection,
  Poèmes
• Saturniens (1866).
• The first and second lines of the poem (Les
  sanglots longs des
• violons de l'automne / Blessent mon cœur d'une
  langueur
• monotone.) were broadcast by the Allies over
  Radio Londres in
• 1944 as a code message to the French Resistance
  in
• preparation for D-Day. When the second line was
  broadcast over
• the radio waves, it signaled that the invasion
  was to come in
• 24 hours.

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Paul VERLAINE (1844-1896)
Chanson d'automnePoèmes saturniens
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Les sanglots longsDes violonsDe l'automne
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Blessent mon coeurD'une langueurMonotone.
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Tout suffocantEt blême, quandSonne l'heure,
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Je me souviensDes jours anciensEt je pleure
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Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporte
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Deçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.
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Chanson dautomne

• Les sanglots longs
• Des violons
• De l'automne
• Blessent mon coeur
• D'une langueur
• Monotone.
• Tout suffocant
• Et blême, quand
• Sonne l'heure,
• Je me souviens
• Des jours anciens
• Et je pleure

• Et je m'en vais
• Au vent mauvais
• Qui m'emporte
• Deçà, delà,
• Pareil à la
• Feuille morte.

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Quest-ce que ce poème raconte sur lautomne?
LAUTOMNE
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Ecris un poème sur lautomneavec bonjour.., au
revoir

• Bonjour lautomne, au revoir lété.
• Bonjour les feuilles mortes, au revoir les
  feuilles vivantes.
• Bonjour., au revoir..