Creative Poetry Writing

Ma Angelica Araya Oxford University Press Educational Consultant

Who is this workshop for ?

It is for the teacher who wishes to add a sense of production, excitement and performance to the language classroom, to give students the opportunity to say something surprising and original, while they practise new aspects of language.

Starting with creative writing.

What alphafetical order means?

How quickly can you order these?
Giraffe Monkey Zebra Spider

Snake
Cheetah

What is alliteration?
When the same letter is used more than once to emphasise words in the text. For example: The creepy creaky castle. My marvellous magic mirror.

Alliteration can also be used when choosing an adjective.

. For example: terrible tiger cheeky cheetah scary spider

Now, lets try an acrostic

Task: Write your name or the name of someone you love. Write any piece of information , feelings, thoughts, anything you want to say about you starting with the letters in your name: A little girl that loves animals N ine years old she is N obody can avoid falling in love with her!

Different types of poems

-Alphabet Name Poems -Acrostic -Poems from one to ten -Sentence Pattern Poems -Relative Clauses Poems -Time Poems -Word-play Poems -Family Images- Metaphors -Recipe Poems

Poems from one to ten

One wonderful wolf, Two tall trees, Three friendly friends, Four sweet strawberries Five furry foxes, Six silly soldiers, Seven smelly socks, Eight evil eggs, Nine nice nicknames, Ten tidy teddies.

Similes and metaphors

A simile is when two things are directly compared, and as or like is usually used to compare.

For example:
As cold as a dogs nose. He was slow like a snail.

Can you link the ideas below to make similes?

Her face was

My babys eyes

like a runaway horse.

gleamed like pearls.

He left the room

Grandmothers false teeth

as round as the full moon.

like charging bulls.

The children ran

sparkled like diamonds.

So what are metaphors?

A metaphor is an unusual way of describing something. A metaphor says something is something else. e.g. Tony is a tower of strength. Louise is green with envy. Wayne Rooney is a goal machine. David was as good as gold.

Recipe Poems
Verbs Cooking ingredients

mix cut chop pour fold in sprinkle squeeze slice

onions lemon juice sugar flour butter grated cheese eggs oil