Unit 6 The Weather
Listen up! Listen to your teacher. Answer true or false. 1 The forecast is for the Northern Caribbean. 2 The highest temperature is likely to be on Sunday morning. 3 There will be no rain. 4 The wind is coming from the East. 5 People who are swimming should be careful. Reading Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you. But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Personification
Christina Rossetti
1 Which lines rhyme in each verse? 2 The title of the poem is a question. What is the answer? 3 How does the poet know that the wind is blowing in verse one? 4 How does the poet know that the wind is blowing in verse two?
• Listen up! Read aloud the weather forecast from Listening Texts page 163. ICT Demonstrate on a laptop or other device how to find the local weather forecast and interpret the information and charts. • Ask students to clap the beat of the poem as they read it. (Three to the line) • The poet describes the trees as if they are people – the leaves ‘tremble’. Give students other examples of personification, e.g. ‘The wind howled. The traffic crawled’. Ask them to suggest examples of their own. • Extension: Create a class version of the poem. Together, invent a new line 3 (beginning ‘But when …’).
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