Title: Promoting creativity in French lessons
1Promoting creativity in French lessons
Alice Ayel
2Year 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.
3Starter 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.
4To 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.
5To listen to the poem and to understand it.
- I read the poem to them and we discussed it in
English.
6To 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.
7Plenary peer assessment.
- pupils assess each others poems.
- They also show and read their poems to the whole
class.
8Objectif
- découvrir un poème sur lautomne.
9Paul 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
10Can 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.
11What 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
12Travail 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
13About 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.
14Paul VERLAINE (1844-1896)
Chanson d'automnePoèmes saturniens
15Les sanglots longsDes violonsDe l'automne
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17Blessent mon coeurD'une langueurMonotone.
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20Tout suffocantEt blême, quandSonne l'heure,
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22Je me souviensDes jours anciensEt je pleure
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24Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporte
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26Deçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.
27Chanson 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.
28Quest-ce que ce poème raconte sur lautomne?
LAUTOMNE
29Ecris un poème sur lautomneavec bonjour.., au
revoir
- Bonjour lautomne, au revoir lété.
- Bonjour les feuilles mortes, au revoir les
feuilles vivantes. - Bonjour., au revoir..