Unit 9 Our Five Senses
Let’s talk Look at the writing below. Is it a poem or a story? How do you know that? Reading
Drinking Water-Coconut Feeling thirsty feeling hot nothing to cool you down like a water-coconut With a flick of her cutlass market-lady will hand you one – a sweet little hole brimming at the top
when you put it to your head you wouldn’t want it to stop
Then you’ll be wondering if there’s jelly inside
ask market-lady if she wouldn’t mind she’ll flick the big nut right open for you she’ll flick you a coconut spoon to scoop with too Feeling thirsty feeling hot the best thing to spend your money on is a water-coconut
Grace Nichols
• Let’s talk: Ask students what they notice about the way the words are set out on the page. (Short lines arranged in groups, which suggest this is a poem.) • Reading: Talk about the features of poems, e.g. stanzas (also known as verses). Point these out as you read the poem. • Ask your students how the format of this poem, which is in free verse, differs from the poem in Unit 6.
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