MEETING 4

 Figurative Language Analysis of Jana Ghossein "time out" Poem

Time out

       by Jana Ghossein

Help how much my heart hurts

my mouth is as dry as a desert

my throught is sore

my voice is a goner

my heart is beating as fast as a tiger

my hand is a rattling snake

my face is a tomato.

bye bye, boring life

I cannot take it no more.

I lay my head.

upon my knee

now blow the whistle referee

Figurative Language Analysis:

simile: my mouth is as dry as a desert, my heart is beating as fast as a tiger

simile is one thing is described as being like another thing or comparison of two things so in the sentence of 'my mouth is as dry as a desert', 'my heart is beating as fast as a tiger'

metaphor: compare two different things using "is" or "are" that says one thing is another. according to the poetry there are a few of metaphor such as ' my face is a tomato.' 'my hand is a rattling snake' 

MEETING 2

 Name: Harevsa 

Class:  LIT IN ELT B 

Why do we need a creative teacher? We need creative teachers to teach more interesting, fun and the learners will not feel boredom. There are a lot of sources that can help us to become a creative teacher. The teacher will also create the student to be more creative and cooperative by giving feedback and support. The teacher can develop their creativity in a variety of ways, according to (Freeman, 1989) teacher training divided into knowledge, attitude, skills, and awareness. To become creative it came from people who have a wide knowledge and basic skill and of course being a teacher must know how to build a learning atmosphere, self knowledge, being confident, and committed to helping learners succeed. As a teacher we need to find our passion in the classroom and be open minded to any kind of news ideas, the teacher must have strengths to make the curriculum more fun for example adding games on it. For example implementing poetry in the language classroom. For several people poetry is one of favorable tools for language teaching. To get more interesting by learning a poetry the teacher can let the students to watch poetry videos provide inspiration to the students another easily ways to student learning poetry is we can pair up songs and poems by the way find a few songs and poems to pairing then the students can make their own poetry and explain it

MEETING 1

 Name: Harevsa ☺

Class: Literature in ELT (B) 

The Use of Poetry/Songs in Teaching/Learning English According to my personal perspective, teaching English is quite challenging to make attractive activities so as to create the atmosphere to make the learners not feel boredom. Song and poetry are useful tools and fun activities to teach the language. The main purpose of learning English with songs is to make the students learn by listening, repeat and to develop communication skills. When properly planned, applied, and evaluated, a song has the potential to increase memory, understanding the essence of the story of the music and to get a new vocabulary more effectively and language structures. However poetry is a written art that contains aesthetics language, and beautiful words with deep meaning. The ability to analyze poetry can help students to create and convey their thoughts (critical thinking). The task of finding an object to use as a source of inspiration for poetry writing the students can participate in this writing exercise by using both inside and outside of the classroom for inspiration the object is instructed at this level to be perceptive and receptive to both living and nonliving things around them. Mittal (2014) explains that poetry offers many opportunities for language teaching and practice. It gives a wide change of learning vocabulary and structure. 

Sources: Samanik, S. (2018) Teaching English Using Poetry: An Alternative to Implement Contextual Teaching and Learning: An Alternative to Implement Contextual Teaching and Learning. JER 2018, 3, Page 21-28. 

Džanić, Nihada. (2016) The Effect of Using Songs On Young Learners and Their Motivation for Learning English, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 40-45.