Residing in a country that has four seasons will grant people real-life experiences dealing with changeable weather. People can enjoy outdoor activities when there is good weather. Stunning views of panorama are often hard to forget. Wonderful moments to celebrate the season with lovely weather are always missed. Contrarily, dreadful weather prevents any plan in some activities. Bad or stormy weather causes awful damages. People, who face the miserable weather, try hard to weather the storm.
In a literary work such as a poem, people can use terminologies related to weather to express their feelings; since at some point there are similarities of the changes in weather with the changes of human feeling. The weather can be good or dreadful, and similarly the human feeling can be good or dreadful too. In this book, students of Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages who enrolled in English Conversation Class taught by Hery Yanto The practiced to write and recite poems using terminologies related to the weather.
Hery, the editor of this book who also the University of Hawaii at Manoa alumnus, initiated the practice of written poems compiled in this book. He has developed a variety of active learning activities for his English classes since he decided to move and teach in China five years ago. This book is one of his serious effort to promote active learning. In addition to being written and compiled in this book, students had learned to recite their poems as a part of their English proficiency test. Poems in this book can be used by readers who want to learn English through to the creative literary work of poem. Teachers of English as a Foreign Language can use poems in this book to improve their students learning of general vocabulary and idioms related to weather as well. Besides using and enjoying poems presented here from the linguistic perspective, readers are also invited to imagine the atmosphere and scenery of the four seasons in the bamboo country, China.
Penulis
Hery Yanto The
Penyunting
Nurul Hasanah Nasution
Penata Letak
Niken Hapsari Cahyarina
Penata Sampul
Hanung Norenza Putra
Bandung; Ellunar, 2019
xvi+207hlm., 14,8 x 21 cm
ISBN: 978-623-204-300-8
Cetakan pertama, Desember 2019
Harga
Rp51.000