While listening Take note of the following while you listen.
1 Listen to the way the narrator uses her voice when she reads. 2 Notice how she emphasises some words and changes the pace of her reading.
3 Take note of how the narrator starts and ends the story. 4 Try to work out the main idea of the text.
After listening Answer these questions on the passage, My home.
1 Work with a partner. a. Use your notes to talk about the writer’s home. Then together, draw the house, the outbuildings and the land around it.
b. Compare your drawing with that of other learners. Have you forgotten anything?
2 Work by yourself to answer these questions. a. Write down three sorts of visitors who came to the author’s home.
b. Give two reasons why relatives came to see the author’s family.
c. What three things did the women from the villages sell?
d. What did the author’s family do for all the visitors? e. How do we know that the author’s family was rich?
3 Discuss these questions as a class. a. What do you think the reader’s voice sounds like: old or young; happy or unhappy; excited or bored?
b. The reader told you details about the home and the visitors. Did she do this slowly enough for you to take notes?
c. The passage begins by describing the buildings and the land. How does it end?
Reading and viewing: Poetry
Poetry uses a lot of imagery. Imagery is language that produces “pictures” in your mind. A writer can make you “see” what is described by using adjectives, for example: “vast ancestral savannahs”, or adverbs or nouns that have a very strong meaning, for example: blood and slavery. Images or pictures are also produced by
using figurative language. Read about figurative language on the next page.
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