A selection of English ESL haiku printables

Learning a little bit about haiku poetry and then trying to write one. And then they need to read it to the class.

HAIKU

This is a sheet I made for my class of Japanese adults to write haiku in English. They had all written them in Japanese before, but learning about syllables was something new!

After they wrote the haiku, they read them aloud to the class. This activity took 2 30 minute classes to complete.

The words have a winter/fall focus since we did this activity in early December.

Haiku

Template used to help students set up haiku poetry and follow its syllabic form. 

Haiku Poetry

haloween haiku

This file include three worksheets to help students write haiku poem.

Haiku Poem writing

A very basic worksheet with examples and syllable breakdowns for spring haikus

Spring Haiku in English

I created this in order to teach pronunciation  by using Haiku poems. The objective of this worksheet is to have children counting syllables. please leave your comment and thanks!

community helpers haiku poems

This worksheet is a reading comprehension task. It has 4 haiku, describing a big religious holiday, Easter. Students learn about Japanese form of poetry, haiku, learn Easter vocabulary, learn to recite these poems.

Easter Haiku, a reading task

Helping recognize syllables in words by doing an exercise in writing Haiku or poem in English,. Haiku is a good way as you have to listen and count the syllables of it, but poem can be good for Suffice and prefix recognition as well. This is just a short presentation of poem technique as well for the student to identify the differences in styles. RAP music is here to help to modernize the exercise, as well some kids can be more hype by the idea of a rap music.

ALT Japan writing Poetry and Haiku

I use this as an exercise in planning and structuring students' writing. The form of haiku are simple enough for young students to grasp, and the steps are designed to build a method to use when approaching longer form pieces of writing.

Creative Writing - writing a winter haiku poem

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The following pages are an exploration activity for pupils to identify and then define the rules for a variety of poems.





•	ACROSTIC


•	ALPHABET


•	HAIKU


•	RHYMING COUPLET


•	LIMERICK


•	DIAMANTE


•	CINQUAIN





Pupils can also identify with parts of speech, rhyme and rhythm. 




Identify and Define Poem Forms

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

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Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

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A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

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The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

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Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

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