(source: Harper Collins)

Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

Be glad your nose is on your face,not pasted on some other place,

for if it were where it is not,you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nosewere sandwiched in between your toes,

that clearly would not be a treat,for you'd be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread were it attached atop your head,

it soon would drive you to despair,forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would bean absolute catastrophe,

for when you were obliged to sneeze,your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,remains between your eyes and chin,

not pasted on some other place--be glad your nose is on your face!

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1. Which body parts can you find in the poem?

1…………………………………….. 6…………………………….…..….

2…………………………………….. 7…………………………….….……

3…………………………………….. 8……………………………………..

4…………………………………….. 9…………………………………..…

5…………………………………….. 10……………………….……………

2. Listen and drawListen to the descriptions and then draw them into the picture below.

3. ExpressionsWhich word fits which face best? When you have matched all the words: work in pairs. One of you acts out an expression and the other one guesses which one, of course in English!

Arrogant-Blissful-Cautious-Cold-Curious-Confident-Agonised-Bitter-Disapproving-Determined-Concentrating-Bored-Angy-Disgusted-Confident-Disappointed-Anxious

4. Fill in the missing wordsListen to the song and fill in the missing words

5. Would you change your body?Watch the trailer, then answer these questions. Then work in pairs: talk about each other’s answers

1. What do you think about plastic surgery?

2. Why do you think a lot of famous people have plastic surgery?

3. Would you like getting plastic surgery? Why/why not?

6. Find the body parts in the puzzle

Arm Hand NoseBladder Head SkinBone Heart SpineBrain Kidney ToeEars Leg TongueEyes Liver VeinsFoot LungsFinger Muscles

FOR THE TEACHERLevel: 1/2/3 vmbo-t/havo

About the author

Jack Prelutsky

In 1940, Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, and attended Hunter College in New York City. Although he claims to have hated poetry through most of his childhood, he rediscovered poetry later in life, and has devoted many years since to writing fresh, humorous poetry aimed specifically at kids.

"I realized poetry was a means of communication, that it could be as exciting or as boring as that person or that experience."

After stints as a truckdriver, photographer, folksinger, and more, he is now the author of more than thirty collections of original verse and anthologies of children's poetry, including: Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Facey And Other Poems (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2008); Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (2006); The Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom (2006); The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983); Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (1978), and The Queen of Eene (1976).

In 2006, Prelutsky was named the first Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and spends much of his time presenting poems to children in schools and libraries throughout the United States. (source: poets.org)

The poem- Pupils watch and listen to the poem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=T9K0DoVMZvs- Hand out the worksheets- Now play it again while the pupils read along

Exercises

1. Which body parts can you find in the poem?1. nose. 6. hair2. face 7. ear3. toes 8. brain4. feet 9. eyes

5. head 10. chin

2. Listen and drawdescriptions: big ears; small eyes; curly hair; thin eyebrows; round nose; big mouth with square teeth.

3. ExpressionsWhich word fits which face best? When pupils work in pairs (acting out and guessing expressions): walk around the classroom to encourage them, help them and join in!

4.

Fill in the missing words

Play the song: http://youtu.be/eAfyFTzZDMMPupils fill in the missing words while they listen

5. Change your body?

Pupils watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJCSnjHa4QThey answer the questions and then discuss them in pairs. Walk around to help them. Encourage them to speak English.

6. Find the body parts in the puzzlePupils who are finished can work on the puzzle.

Arm Hand NoseBladder Head SkinBone Heart SpineBrain Kidney ToeEars Leg TongueEyes Liver VeinsFoot LungsFinger Muscles

(source: sarafurlong.worldpress.com)