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This set of worksheets on the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade is designed as a complete unit of study of this fascinating but accessible modernist Brazilian writer. I’ve used these resources with great success with a series of classes, and the text is a good choice which reflects the thematic areas of ‘Readers, Writers and Texts’ and ‘Time and Place’. Carlos Drummond is a Portuguese language writer who appears on the prescribed lists of authors. The course materials (designed to be taught in 3-4 weeks) reflect a standard IB selection of 15-20 poems chosen from across the poet’s output. As well as teaching the specifics of this compelling author the course also covers essential skills for critical commentary and extension/ TOK concepts. The documents (which are presented as worksheets but can easily be adapted into powerpoints) are ready for use in class and are comprised of the following: 0 a pdf of the poems covered in the course (supplied for reference) 1 Biographical focus, including contextual exercise and prompts for an interactive oral task 2 Seven Sided Poem and Multitudinous Heart - with extension work on poetry translation 3 Childhood and Confessions of a Man - creative and analytical exercise 4 Journey Through The Family including an exercise on writing introductions for critical commentary 5 Family Portrait - a full Critical Commentary exercise 6 Sonnets - an exploration of form 7 End of unit exercises including supervised writing prompts and homework essay titles, with critical materials for ambitious students

Manuel Rivas’s The Carpenter’s Pencil is a wonderful novel of the Spanish Civil War, originally written in Galician. It’s a great novel for IB being translated from an author on the prescribed author list and focusing on an obvious global issue, civil war. This is a basic workbook featuring an introduction to Rivas and his work, a section by section set of activities, and a series of critical essays which can be used as the stimulus for a LP activity or even (for HL essays) as secondary reading. Also included are instructions for the old syllabus interactive oral - I have retained this even though it is no longer necessary. It can be a useful cultural understanding exercise.

A resource of 34 x little / old fashioned/ English language games/ exercises which explore origins of English words, grammatical concepts, different types of vocabulary etc etc. A repository of starters/ do-it-nows developed over thirty years in teaching… Secondary kids love them at all ages. 1 numbers game 2 2022 additions to OED game 3 2022 endangered phrases game 4 animal words 5 animal idioms quiz 6 ad slogans 7 born phrases 8 dead phrases 9 exploring connotations - boys and girls 10 dangling participles 11 phrases with a job in them 12 demonyms quiz 13 discourse markers 14 ‘walks into a bar’ quiz 15 euphemisms quiz 16 Greek and Latin phrases 17 foreign words and phrases list 18 Words or phrases from Italian 19 words or phrases from Dutch 20 ten words that come from Arabic 21 singulars and plurals 22 oxymoron 23 phrases with the number 8 24 prefixes and suffixes 25 prose genres quiz 26 direct speech 27 rotograms quiz 28 verb moods 29 synonyms for ‘investigation’ 30 synonyms for luxury/ prodigality 31 tri words 32 words rarely seen without a prefix 33 active and passive 34 phrases from King James bible