11 th June, 2015

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IPAD

TRAINING

You each have an iPadPair upDecide who’s a and who’s bA is the reporterB is the camera operator

WELCOME

You have just arrived on the scene of a massive train crash. It is the Paddington crash of October 1999

Use the information you have to fi lm a short report using the iPad camera

You have five minutes

NEWS REPORT

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THE COLLAPSED TEXT: ALL THE WORDS, SIMPLY IN ALPHABETICAL

ORDER

Use as many of the words from the collapsed poem as you like (NOT all of them!!)

Add words as you need to help it make senseRecord a reading of it using the cameraYou have 7 minutes ONLY

YOUR TASK – CREATE A SHORT POEM

On the Train

Cradled through England between flooded fieldsrocking, rocking the rails, my head-phones on,the black box of my Walkman on the table.Hot tea trembles in its plastic cup.I’m thinking of you waking in our bedthinking of me on the train. Too soon to phone. The radio speaking in the suburbs, in commuter townsin cars unloading children at school gates,is silenced in dark parkways down the linebefore locks click and footprints track the frostand trains slide out of stations in the dawnDreaming their way towards the blazing bone-ship. The Vodaphone you are callingmay have been switched off.please call later. And calling later,calling later their phones ring in the rubbleand in the rubble of suburban kitchensthe wolves howl into silent telephones. I phone. No answer. Where are you now?The train moves homeward through the morning.Tonight I’ll be home safe, but talk to me, please.Pick up the phone. Today I’m tolerantof mobiles. Let them say it. I’ll say it too.Darling, I’m on the train.

INTRODUCING POPPLET

You each have two key phrasesChoose ONE of themExclude nothing that comes to mindPrize for the biggest popplet in ….5 minutes

Cradled through England between flooded fields

rocking, rocking the rails, my head-phones on,

the black box of my Walkman on the table.

Hot tea trembles in its plastic cup.

I’m thinking of you waking in our bed

thinking of me on the train. Too soon to phone.

The radio speaking in the suburbs, in commuter towns

in cars unloading children at school gates,

is silenced in dark parkways down the line

before locks click and footprints track the frost

and trains slide out of stations in the dawn

Dreaming their way towards the blazing bone-ship.

The Vodaphone you are calling

may have been switched off.

please call later. And calling later,

calling later their phones ring in the rubble

and in the rubble of suburban kitchens

the wolves howl into silent telephones.

I phone. No answer. Where are you now?

The train moves homeward through the morning.

Tonight I’ll be home safe, but talk to me, please.

Pick up the phone. Today I’m tolerant

of mobiles. Let them say it. I’ll say it too.

Darling, I’m on the train.

What takes place?What does it remind you of?How does it make you feel?What event/s in your own life does it link with?Who are the people involved in it?How many diff erent groups of people are they?Do the stanzas have the same atmosphere?Decide on a label to attach to each stanzaWhat length of time does it occupy? If the poet was here, what would you ask to have

explained?

CAN OPENERS

What takes placeHow it feelsLanguage features you have spottedThree core quotationsAnalysis of the quotations

YOUR STANZA

RECORDING A VOICE