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Text 4 – Grandpa’s Soup

KEY WORDS: Colloquial – informal and chatty Dialect – words specific to a place Modal verb – verb which shows degrees of possibility. Text 4 – Grandpa’s Soup. Lesson Objective: To analyse the poem using key linguistic terms. Dialect. Specific words which are particular to a place.

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Text 4 – Grandpa’s Soup

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  1. KEY WORDS: Colloquial – informal and chatty Dialect – words specific to a place Modal verb – verb which shows degrees of possibility Text 4 – Grandpa’s Soup Lesson Objective:To analyse the poem using key linguistic terms

  2. Dialect • Specific words which are particular to a place. • Do you know any examples of DIALECT?? • Why do writers use DIALECT?

  3. Food as a memory of a person • The poem Grandpa’s soup is reflective and nostalgic in TONE. • The narrator recalls her grandpa’s soup with fond memories. • The TONE changes as she realises that he must have known when she was little that his soup would remind her of him after his death.

  4. Tasks • Find and annotate the following techniques in the poem: • Scottish dialect • Structural repetition • Interrogative sentences • Metaphor • Simile • Superlative adjective

  5. Narrative Technique • The narrator switches from a child-like narrative to a more adult, reflective narrative, and then goes back to child-like. • Find the switch • What is particular about the poet’s word choices and style to make it a convincing child-like perspective? • How has the writer’s choice of words created a more reflective tone in the second stanza?

  6. Attitudes and Values • Mini essay response. • From this poem and one of the other texts we have read so far answer this question: • In what ways does the writer convey their feelings about food to the reader? • Lexis • Grammar • Structure

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