Найкращі поети

The Best Poets. Найкращі поети.

(a competition )

Compere:    Hello to everybody! Today we have a party which is devoted to poems! In my opinion verses are melody of a man’s soul. They tell us about poet’s mood, emotions, about his heart. Poems are like flowers on the fertile soil of a national literature. They are songs of a soul. They can be happy and gloomy, merry and sad, dreamy and hopeful; about love, hatred, dreams, nature, and history; for children and adults. There is no doubt that most of all men in the world write or wrote poems – in their childhood or when they were teenagers or when they became adults. As a matter of fact the most productive period of time for writing verses for a man is the period of time when he or she falls in love and it doesn’t depend on human age. Such verses have a lot of strong positive energy. Such verses carry you in the world of emotions and feelings.

 I’d like to ask you some questions.

What Ukrainian poets do you know?        

What English or American poets do you know?       

What Russian poets do you know?       

We are gathered here to watch a competition between 3 teams of our school. There are four poets in each team. Let them take their seats at their tables. We will be witnesses of composing verses by them. They will do many tasks which are connected with writing poems. We are also going to listen to reciting poems by pupils from our school. Our jury will put their marks to each team after their doing tasks. At the end of our competition the jury will announce the winner. Let our competition start.

( Three teams introduce themselves and call the names of their clubs.)

We start from poems for kids. Do you know what little kids like?

Compere:    You have lines of some poem on your tables. These lines are mixed. Put lines in the right order to make a poem. The winner is the team, which will do it the first and correctly.

(Members of the jury put marks and announce them.)

Compere:   It seems to me that all of you have got your own pets. They are animals. The following tasks are connected with names of animals. Now let’s listen to the poem about squirrel.

Compere:   You are given rhymed words; compose a short poem with the help of them. 

(Pupils read their poems. Members of the jury put marks and announce them.)

Compere:   You can see rhymed words; compose poems with the help of them. At this time you may use any words you like of these ones. And the size of your poems can be different.

Pupils read their poems. Members of the jury put marks and announce them.)

Compere:   Verses about nature are so beautiful, so fresh, so exciting! Let’s make sure of this.

(Pupils read their poems. Members of the jury put marks and announce them.)

            

Compere: Listen to the next task. You have got a poem without the last line. Make up your own end to each verse, and then we’ll compare with the original poem.

(Members of the jury put marks and announce them.)

Compere: It is interesting for us if you understand the meaning of English verses. You are given the poem “Spring is coming” by Edith Segal. Translate it into Ukrainian. The winner will be the team, whose translation will be the best.

(Pupils read their translations. Members of the jury put marks and announce them.)

Compere: “East or West home is best”, “There is no place like home” these proverbs are so warm and dear for everybody, because they express our attitude to our home. Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, a famous Ukrainian poet dreamed of being buried on the native land. He described his wish in the poem “Testament”

Compere: You are given rhymed words again; compose a short poem about your native land with the help of them.

Pupils read their poems. Members of the jury put marks and announce them.)

Compere: Edith Seagal wrote a poem, which is called “Different languages”. You are given the last word of each line from this poem. Your task is to write your own verses and then we’ll compare them with the original ones. May be your poem will be better than one of the famous poet, won’t it?

(Pupils read their variants of the poem. Members of the jury put marks and announce them. The jury defines the winner.)

Compere: Thanks to everybody for taking part in this competition! I hope you to develop your writing abilities and soon a name, someone of you, will appear in the history of world literature!

Good-bye.