A Ppt illustrating the poem by Duffy. Includes questions, activity and homework.

Lesson designed to show students how they can use their own characters to resist negative peer pressure.

This lesson asks students to examine the impact on a hard-to reach city when the World Cup arrives. Debate involved and worksheets attached.

Lower ability, uses images to elicit response. Choose to ask students WHICH image they would choose from the poem. Lesson involves students selecting positive and negative element from the river's experience. Introduces the idea of personification...h/w to produce a similar poem of your own (can be powerpoint with images). Poet is Brian Patten.