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Your great love
Textbook: Part 1, pp. 11–14
GoalKnow the structure of a poem (line, stanza, rhyme, refrain); read a poem expressively.
New words
line of a poem · misrastanza · bandrhyme · qofiyapraise · madh
Explanation
The textbook has the poem “Buyuk mehring” (Your great love) by Nazarmat Egamnazarov: it praises Uzbekistan, the mother tongue and independence and recalls great ancestors. We do not retell it. A poem is made of lines (misra), and lines form stanzas (band). Words at the ends of some lines sound alike: this is rhyme. In some poems one line returns in every stanza: this is a refrain. When reading expressively we watch the punctuation and the feeling.
Worked examples
“Independence Day”. On the first of September there is a celebration in our city. Flags flutter in front of our school. The director said that independence gave us the chance to choose our own path. We read poems about the homeland. I noticed how beautiful the name of our country sounds in a poem. In the evening we went to the festival with my family; everyone was laughing and singing.
My four-line stanza: “When the sun rises the field smiles, / my hard-working people go about. / Where there is peace, the land has happiness, / where there is kindness, the heart has spring.” Rhyming words: kular – yurar, bor – bahor.
Class activity
“Rhyme chain”: the teacher says a word, children take turns finding a rhyming word; whoever cannot is out.
Practice
1
When is the celebration in the text?
On the first of September
2
What did the director say about independence?
It gave us the chance to choose our own path.
3
What did the child notice in the poem?
That the country’s name sounds beautiful
4
Name the rhyming pairs in the four-line stanza.
kular – yurar; bor – bahor
5
What is a “band” in a poem?
A part made of several lines