Булаева М.А., учитель английского языка МБОУ Спасская гимназия
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MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS
by Robert Burns
Before reading
Look at the title of the poem and say what the poem is about.
Pay attention to the following geographic names:
The Highlands – название горной местности на севере Шотландии.
A strath – (шотл.) долина, по которой протекает река.
My Heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My Heart’s in the Highlands a chasing a deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My Heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North;
The birthplace of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild – handing woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud – pouring floods.
My Heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My Heart’s in the Highlands a chasing a deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My Heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.
After reading
1. Answer the questions:
1) What place in Scotland does the poet love?
2) What is he fond of?
3) What does the author say «farewell» to?
4) What is the Scottish nature like?
2. Choose the correct endings for the following statements.
1) The poem is about:
a) hunting (охота) in the mountains;
b) the British climate;
c) love for one’s motherland.
2) The poet:
a) is proud of his native place;
b) is sorry to leave Scotland;
c) is happy to go away from the Highlands.
3) R. Burns expresses admiration (восхищение) for:
a) Scottish landscape (пейзаж) and nature;
b) the people of Scotland;
c) traditions of his motherland.
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3. Read the poem once again and pick out the epithets Robert Burns uses to express his love for
the Highlands.
an epithet – 1)эпитет; 2) слово или словосочетание, поэтически определяющее другое
слово.
4. Fill in the blanks in the poem. Don’t look at the text.
____________________________ , my heart is not here,
My heart in the Highlands _____________________________.
Farewell to the Highlands,________________________________,
_____________________________________, the country of worth.
Wherever I wander, _____________________________________
___________________________________________ forever I love.
Use these lines:
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a-chasing the deer
My heart in the Highlands
Farewell to the North
A-chasing the wild deer
The birthplace of valour
Wherever I go
wherever I rove
The hills of the Highlands
6. Read the Russian translation of the poem made by S. Marshak and compare it with the
original. Say whether you like the Russian version and in what way it differs from the English
one.
Мое сердце в горах.
В горах мое сердце… Доныне я там
По следу оленя лечу по скалам.
Гоню я оленя, пугаю козу.
В горах мое сердце, а сам я внизу.
Прощай, моя родина! Север, прощай,
Отечество славы и доблести край.
По белому свету судьбою гоним,
Навеки останусь я сыном твоим!
Прощайте, вершины под кровлей снегов,
Прощайте, долины и скаты лугов,
Прощайте, поникшие в бездну леса,
Прощайте, потоков лесных голоса.
В горах мое сердце… Доныне я там
По следу оленя лечу по скалам.
Гоню я оленя, пугаю козу.
В горах мое сердце, а сам я внизу.
Перевод С.Я. Маршака
7. Draw and describe the picture, illustrating the poem by R. Burns.
A JOYFUL SONG OF FIVE
written by Katherine Mansfield (1923)
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Come, let us all sing very high
And all sing very loud
And keep on singing in the street
Until there's quite a crowd;
And "Here we gather Nuts and May,"
"I wrote a Letter" too,
"Here we go round the Mulberry Bush,"
"The Child who lost its shoe";
And keep on singing in the house
And up and down the stairs;
Then underneath the furniture
Let's all play Polar bears;
And every game we ever played.
And then--to stay alive-Let's end with lots of Birthday Cake
Because to-day you're five.
And crawl about with doormats on,
And growl and howl and squeak,
Then in the garden let us fly
And play at hid and seek;
After reading
1.Answer the questions.
1) Who is the poem about? How old is he or she?
2) What do the children do at the party?
3) What games do they play?
2. Play action games you’ve found in the text of the poem.
Here We Go Gathering Nuts in May
(Видео игры http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK-yOghkPx4 )
Replace "[name]" by a boy's and a girl's name from within the group singing and select between
him/her according to the gender of the first selected person. Some versions replace the phrase
"on a cold and frosty morning," with "so early in the morning".
Here we go gathering nuts in May,
Nuts in May, nuts in May,
Here we go gathering nuts in May,
On a cold and frosty morning.
Who will you have to fetch him/her away,
Fetch him/her away, fetch him/her away,
Who will you have to fetch him/her away,
On a cold and frosty morning.
Who will you have for nuts in May,
Nuts in May, nuts in May,
Who will you have for nuts in May,
On a cold and frosty morning.
We'll have [name] to fetch him/her away,
Fetch him/her away, fetch him/her away,
We'll have [name] to fetch him/her away,
On a cold and frosty morning.
We'll have [name] for nuts in May,
Nuts in May, nuts in May,
We'll have [name] for nuts in May,
On a cold and frosty morning.
"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This is the
Way")
(Видео игры: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRTdWIuR-U)
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The simple game involves holding hands in a circle and moving around to the first verse, which
is alternated with the specific verse, where the players break up to imitate various appropriate
actions.
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
On a cold and frosty morning.
This is the way we comb our hair,
We comb our hair, we comb our hair.
This is the way we comb our hair
On a cold and frosty morning.
This is the way we wash our face,
We wash our face, we wash our face.
This is the way we wash our face
On a cold and frosty morning.
This is the way we brush our teeth,
We brush our teeth, we brush our teeth.
This is the way we brush our teeth
On a cold and frosty morning.
“I Wrote a Letter to My Mother”
In this ring game all but one of the children are seated facing inwards, with one going round the
outside of the circle with a handkerchief in one hand. As the children sing, s/he drops the hankie
at random and carries on round the ring:
I wrote a letter to my mother, on the way I dropped it
And one of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket.
Not you, not you, not you, not you.........
and on round until s/he reaches the child who has the hankie behind her, with "....not you, but
YOU!!" and a tap on the shoulder. The chosen child then has to jump up and race the child
outside the ring, in opposite directions, back to the gap left in the circle - the loser is "it" for the
next round of the game.
3. What games do you play at your birthday party?
AUTUMN LEAVES
by Eve Merriam
Before reading
What makes you think of autumn?
Create a list of words that remind you of autumn—its objects, its colours, its smells, its motions,
its sounds. You may use a dictionary.
…………
Have a few volunteers share their lists with the class. How many words are written about leaves?
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What makes you think of autumn? Eve Merriam’s poem “Autumn Leaves” has one answer: the
sight, sound, and feel of falling leaves.
Down
down
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down
Red
yellow
brown
Autumn leaves tumble down,
Autumn leaves crumble down,
Autumn leaves bumble down,
Flaking and shaking,
Tumbledown leaves.
Skittery
Flittery
Rustle by
Hustle by
Crackle and crunch
In a snappery bunch.
Run and catch
Run and catch
Butterfly leaves
Sailboat leaves
Windstorm leaves.
Can you catch them?
Swoop,
Scoop,
Pile them up
In a stumpy pile and
Jump
Jump
JUMP!
After reading
1. What words are repeated in the poem? What words rhyme?
(Words down and leaves are repeated; various words rhyme.)
2. What effect do the repeated and rhyming words create?
(They create a feeling of floating and falling.)
3.How else does the poet create an image of leaves falling? Look at the form of the text.
(The poet uses many visual images. Also, the shape of the poem looks like a leaf falling down
and then landing in a pile.)
4.Say what objects-nouns you’ve come across in the poem. Write down them in the table. Then
write down some words from the poem to describe them.
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leaves
a person
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red / yellow / brown /…
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tumble down / crumble down/ …
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run / …
5. What words in the poem imitate their meaning when we pronounce them?
(“Crackle”,“crunch”, “snappety”, and “swoop” are examples. It is onomatopoeia.)
6. Use your notes about autumn and the words of the poem to write the description of an autumn
scene like the one in Eve Merriam’s poem.
You may begin it with:
Autumn is the time for admiration and joy…
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