Curriculum extra Unit 9

Focus on Literature: Poetry 3 Tick () the pairs of words which rhyme.
1 meet eat ___ 5 for shore ___
1 Read the poem and answer the questions. 2 see be ___ 6 shoe blue ___
Bed in summer 3 hear wear ___ 7 do so ___
by Robert Louis Stevenson 4 you who ___ 8 they play ___

4 Underline the pairs of words in the poem that

I have to go to bed and see rhyme.
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet 5 How many syllables are there in these words?
Complete the table.
Still going past me in the street.
arriving beautiful see going hopping people play
sailing should Stevenson street umbrella
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue, One Two Three
And I should like so much to play, ___________ ___________ arriving
To have to go to bed by day? ___________ ___________ ___________
___________ ___________ ___________
___________ ___________ ___________
1 What is the poem's title?
______________________________________ 6 All of the lines in the poem have the same
2 Who is the poet? number of syllables. How many? ___
______________________________________
7 Underline the word(s) you can exchange for
3 Is the poem about a child or an adult? these words in the poem, without changing the
______________________________________ number of syllables in the line.
4 What is the poet unhappy about in the poem? hopping sitting / staying / arriving
______________________________________ 1 hear listen to / see / know
5 Why is it about bedtime in the summer, and not 2 people’s men’s / women’s / adults’
in the winter? 3 going walking / near / they’re
______________________________________ 4 hard bad / wrong / difficult
6 Look at the words in bold. Is this a line or verse 5 clear beautiful / nice / sunny
of the poem? 6 play talk / sleep / watch TV
______________________________________
7 How many verses are there in total? 8 Read another poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
______________________________________ Choose the correct option. The correct number
of syllables is written after each line. Think
8 How many lines does the poem have?
about:
______________________________________
* the number of syllables in a line
2 Choose the correct option to complete the text * rhyming words
about poems.
In poems, there are often (1) the same / a different Rain
number of lines in each verse. The (2) last / first by Robert Louis Stevenson
words in pairs of lines often rhyme. This means that
they (3) start / end with the same vowel and The (1) rain / water is falling all around, (8)
consonant sounds. Their spelling is not always the It falls on field and (2) river / tree, (6)
same. There are also often (4) a different / the It rains on the (3) umbrellas / grass here, (8)
And on the (4) ships / people at sea. (6)
same number of syllables in each line. This gives
the poem a regular ‘rhythm’, or music, when you
read it out.