Senem Didar Kaynar
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - Upper Intermediate level
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Upper Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide ekphrastic poem writing practice using Bruegel's painting The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and William Carlos Wlliams's poem with the same title
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, the painting and the poem
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To provide detailed reading practice using William Carlos Williams' poem about Bruegel's painting The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Procedure (39-53 minutes)
- Present Ss the painting, The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruegel and ask them to predict the title and painter. - Ask Ss if they know about Icarus or not. - Give Ss key words and ask them to predict the story for Icarus. - Get WCFB and give Ss a summary of the mythological story.
- Show Bruegel's painting again - Give Ss the handout about the painting - Ss work in small groups and answer the questions - Get WCFB
-Ss match the words with definitions in pairs. -Ss chech their answers with other pairs. -T provides answer key
- Write "Ekphrastic Poetry" on the board and try to elicit the meaning. Explain Ss that it means "writing inspired by art" - Ss listen and read the poem by Wlliam Carlos Williams - Ss compare and contrast the poem with the painting through the handout in pairs. - Get WCFB. - Get Ss' attention to the form of the poem.
- Ss choose one of these approaches and write a poem in pairs: - Write in the voice of a person or object shown in the painting - Write a dialogue among characters in the painting - Imagine a story behind what you see depicted in the piece - Write in the voice of the artist
- Ss read each other's poems and give a mark between 1-10. - The writers of the poem with the highest mark get a "certificate" - Give delayed correction
