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Hyperboles, Onomatopoeias and Alliterations – try saying that that three times fast….

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Okay teachers! Put the grammar books down, and step away slowly… it’s time to teach some figurative language.

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Personally, I think it is just important to introduce them to figurative language because it shows that English doesn’t have to be so stiff and rigid all the time. We can have fun with words, and paint a picture with the level of descriptiveness we use. (See my Similes and Metaphors lesson as an example).

 

How do I incorporate it into my lessons?  I usually integrate it in with the book the students are reading at the time – such as with Harry Potter or Holes for example. There are a tonne in each, you just have to do a bit of research first.

Hyperboles

A Hyperbole is an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis, often with humour. I have included a Hyperbole Powerpoint, with some prompts students can do together in groups. You can always give them an example to help them understand better. Feel free to model the following conversation: 

                  Me: Alright kids – let’s learn about hyperboles. 

                                  Kids: What’s that? 

Me: Well – it’s an exaggeration of ideas… often to show that you are funny… have a sense of humour

Kids: Huh? 

Me: Let me explain…for example. I have a CRAPTONNE of marking to do… so as a reward, I will drink a BUCKET WORTH of red wine. 

If you are doing Harry Potter – give them points for the most creative hyperbole. There is also a little worksheet where they can practice writing sentences with hyperboles in them.

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Alliteration

Alliteration is when a series of words in a row (or close together) have the same first consonant sound. For instance: Wine Wednesday and Thirsty Thursday…  Friggen Friday… hm.. there is a theme here…

The Onomatopoeias and Alliterations Powerpoint is included below. Again – this can be fun, and you can take a look at various advertisement campaigns that use alliteration as well as pop music. There are many different activities you could do with this:

  • Tongue Twisters (Swedes – focus on that TH sound!)
  • Worksheets
  • Finding alliterations in pop music
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For a little extra inspiration – you can show them this MINDBLOWING Alliteration Rap one of my previous students did. This kid is going places… what a phenomenal talent he is.

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Onomatopoeia

One of the best words to say in the English language… it’s so much fun. How can you introduce this concept to students? Easy! Batman! Pow! Bang! Zap! Plus… it’s an excuse to watch the original Batman series.. bring out your inner nerd guys!

I have included onomatopoeias in the Powerpoint, along with a cute little poem by my favourite poet Shel Silverstein. Wonderful writer.

Here is a little worksheet you could get the students to do afterwards. See if they can identify any onomatopoeias in the book they are currently reading.

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There! Thankfully, that was thoroughly thought out. I am so tired that I could sleep for a month.

Bye bye!

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This is Me – Grade 7 Unit

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I was so lucky this year, in that my Grade 7s walked into my English class bright eyed and bushy tailed – ready to go.

One boy put up his hand on the first day and declared, “I want to learn English, because I want to go to California.” From what I’ve been told, this is the middle-class Swedish dream. You do you little man – you do you.

It can be frightening though for a lot of kids to come in to Grade 7 English – it’s a big step up from Grade 6. In order to ease them in to it, our first unit is This is Me! It is always easy to talk about yourself, and your family am I right?

This is how the unit looks in our curriculum which is just an overview of everything.

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I have tried to break each class down in to a lesson plan which is below. We scaffold (woo! buzzword!) the learning, so they review and go over a bunch of vocabuary and grammar points first, and then bring it all together in the summative.

 

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All of the grammar and vocabulary is formative – meaning that I won’t grade it. However, I tell my students that these matter just as much, because if I am unsure about what their grades are at the end of the year, I can go back to their formative results and see how they did.

Before I give them their final activity, I do a quick run through of what a good presentation looks like. I don’t really go thoroughly on this though, because this will come later in the term. I will post my PPT and exercises on presentations some day. I usually just show them this video of Obama speaking.

 

Their final activity in this unit is the summative This is Me presentation. To let the little Grade 7s ease into presenting, I let them do this first presentation in small groups. Before they present, I make them practice with each other, so they can get feedback on what they did well and what they need to improve.

However, there is a listening component to this as well, because students have to record information about ONE fellow presenter.

I will mostly likely give them a template for that, but that is last on my to do list. To be honest – it will probably be that one thing I think of 10 minutes before class starts… where I go “SH*T! I knew I forgot something.”

 

 

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FINAL STEP: As many of you know, I love James Nottingham and John Hattie. Hattie says that another great exercises we can do to allow our students to develop, is let them do a self-assessment afterwards. I plan on giving them this rubric so they can think about what they did well on and what they need to improve for next time.

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