Vocabulary Development
Assignment 1, part D: "The King’s Breakfast" as basis for vocabulary activities. I had planned to work with this poem before Assessment 1 was handed out, so this was the starting point for my practical work with vocabulary development in my class. (Here is a link to the poem:) https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-king-s-breakfast/ Preparing for a performance of the poem as a dramatical piece at school in late October 2019, the 7th grade is currently rehearsing the lines of either the storyteller(s), the king, the queen, the dairymaid and the cow/Alderney. The poem can function as a humoristic starting point for discussions about British history, culture, traditions and literature, and it can hopefully be a humoristic “low threshold” way to recognize, learn, use and spell more or less familiar words: (King, queen, cow, a slice of bread, butter, etc). One of the goals in the process is to help the pupils to learn new words for oral and written comunication. I star