MOTIVATION
What were some of the funny things you noticed in the cartoon?
The children jumped like a frog
It raining cats and dogs
How did the cartoon make you feel? Did you laugh? Why or why not?
Yes teacher, because the video consist of funny actions
UNLOCKING DIFFICULTIES
MOTIVE QUESTIONS
What made the speaker wish for something so impossible to eat when she felt hungry?
A tree
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
1. What does the speaker wish they could eat?
2. Which phrase describes how much speaker could eat?
3. What does the character cry with, in a way that highlights the extreme amount of
tears?
4. How does the poem describe the amount of food the character eats?
5. How is the character`s body described after eating so much food?
ANSWERS
1. I could eat a tree.
2. a bottomless pit.
3. a pail of tears.
4.She eat a mountain of food.
5.A skinny toothpick.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Look at these sentences: "A pail of tears," "She ate a mountain of food," "I
could eat a tree." What do you notice about the way these sentences describe things?
2. What are those words that exaggerate called?
AMSWERS
1. The sentences is to much to explain things or they are being exaggerated.
2. Hyperbole
ACTIVITY 1
Exaggerated Meaning
Phrase
1. A pail of Crying a lot
tears.
2. She eat a Eating a huge
mountain of amount of
food. food.
3. A skinny Being very
toothpick. thin.
4. A Having a very
bottomless large appetite
pit.
5. I could eat Being
a tree. extremely
hungry.