Lesson 7: The face of hunger

Objectives:

After they listened, student will understand the meaning and message of the
poem.
During discussion, students will read the unfamiliar words in the poem.
The students will able to pronounce those unfamiliar words in proper diction.
The students will able to write the message of the poem on how they understand
it.
After they hear the examples, the students will able to give their own example.
The students will able to read their examples and explain it.
The students will able to speak properly using verb tenses.
The students will able to write some verbs and their past and past perfect tense.

Activity:

Give some memorable lines on their favorite poem.

Lesson/discussion:

The face of hunger

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

I counted ribs on his concertina chest

Bones protruding as if chiseled

By a sculptors hand of famine.

He looked with glazed pupils.

 Seeing only a bun on some sky-high shelf.

The skin was pale and taut

Like a glove on a doctors hand.

His tongue darted in and out

Like a chameleons

Snatching a confetti flies.

O! child,

Your stomach is a den of lion

Roaring day and night.

Guide Question:

1. To whom does the word his refer to in the poem?

2. What is the message of the poem?

3. Where are the unfamiliar words in the poem?

4. When the stomachs starting roaring like a lion?

5. Why Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali write the poem?

5. How is this character described? Pick the lines in the poem.

Grammar Points:
Past and past perfect tense

The past tense is used to describe or indicate an action that began in the past. Depending
on how we form the past tense, itmight describe actions that happened or were completed
in the past, were occurring at the same time as something else inthe past, or continued to
happen until or near the present time.

Example:
He looked with glazed pupils.
I counted ribs on his concertina chest.

To change a regular verb into its past tense form, we normally add ED to the end of the
verb.

How do we use the Past Perfect Tense?

The past perfect tense expresses action in the past before another action in the past. This
is the past in the past.

Example:

The Titanic had received many warnings before it hit the iceberg.

I had already eaten when my friend stopped by to visit.

Enrichment activity:
I. Write P if the sentence is in the past tense; write PP if the sentence is in the past perfect
tense.

___1.I talked to him a few minutes ago.

___2.She had been an accomplished acrobat until she became a dentist.

___3.He had worked as a veterinarian before he began his book.

___4.My grandfather played for the Yellow Hornless Bull football team

___5.We finished our final exam an hour ago.

II. Underlined the past and past perfect tense in each sentence.

1. I ate a big spicy piece of pizza for my breakfast.

2. My brother joined the circus as a clown last week.

3. They had already finished their dinner when I arrived to join them.

4. After I had eaten five apples, I felt ill.

5. We went to the park.

Practice test:

Essay:

1. On your own understanding explain the last two lines your stomach is den of lions
roaring day and night

2. What is the purpose of the author when he wrote the poem?

3. using your imagination, describe the physical characteristic of the main character.