Want to create interactive content? It’s easy in Genially!

Get started free

urban poetry

Zélina

Created on April 4, 2024

Start designing with a free template

Discover more than 1500 professional designs like these:

Randomizer

Timer

Find the pair

Hangman Game

Dice

Scratch and Win Game

Create a Word Search

Transcript

Unit 4

Describe the picture

  • Place
  • People
  • Clothing
  • Activity

Breakdancers in Brooklyn, New York, 1984

Listen to the songs Can you name the artists? The titles?

Listen to these tracks from the 80s. What is similar? What is different? Compare it.

Common points

There are people speaking, rapping but not really singing. The music is repetitive / sampled.

Differences

The recent songs are more electronic, especially the beat. The voices are modified. The tone is different. There are fewer “real” instruments. With the old songs, you feel like dancing.

4 pillars of hip-hop culture

Can you describe the pictures?

1. Hip-Hop vintage

Identify the object Identify the hip-hop elements How old is this object?

2. Hip-hop: an underground movement Let's watch a video to find out how hip-hop was born, how it compares with other music styles, how it has evolved.

1. Focus on the first part. identify the timpe and the place.

Let's recap : hip-hop culture

__________ is composed of _____ pillars : _________ or _________ , ___________ , __________________ and _________________ . The movement _________ in the ________, __________ in the ________s. At the time, people living in the neighbourhood (district) had no ___________ : they were ________ . Music was important for them. The couldn't get into _______ so they reblled and _________ it in the _________. Rap is something you ____ ___________ hip-hop is something you __________ .

4. Hip-hop: a mainstream movement

4. Hip-hop: a mainstream movement

4. Hip-hop: a mainstream movement

4. Hip-hop: a mainstream movement

4. Hip-hop: a mainstream movement

5. Careers of Hip-Hop legends

First task : The editor of a British music magazine asks you to write a short article about a hip-hop legend and the influence of his / her career on the hip-hop industry. Pick a card and use all the information. Write the article. Create your magazine page.

Utiliser le prétérit pour écrire un récit biographique au passé. Utiliser le present perfect pour faire un bilan de l'influence de l'artiste dans le hip-hop.

Lesson 2 : Being a modern poet. 1. Yo Shakespeare bro!
  • Describe the funky dude on the right. Can you spot the differences?

  • What do you know about Shakespeare?

Let's take a quiz : What are your prejudices against the old man?

Quiz

What are your prejudices against the old man?

Start

1/6

Did you know?

Though Shakespeare wrote theater plays for Elizabeth I, he did not hesitate to write plays which openly criticized kings and queens.
1533-1603 1564-1616

2/6

Did you know?

Between 1590 and 1613, he wrote 37 plays (comedies and tragedies) and a collection of poems/sonnets.

3/6

Did you know?

Shakespeare's theater called "The Globe" was in the most scandalous part of London where there were all sort of animal fights, criminals, prostitutes... His audience was very loud and unruly/undisciplined. They often reacted to the performance by booing or cheering or throwing projectiles to the actors!

4/6

Did you know?

Music was very important in Shakespeare's time, particularly songs. Sometimes they were connected to the plot/scenario of the play. Sometimes they were just an interlude. The actors performed the songs and played instruments themselves. At the time, only men were allowed to be actors and not women!

5/6

Verse : Poetic language with rhyme. Prose : Ordinary written language like a regular text.

Did you know?

Shakespeare probably looks classical to you, but he was very good at "bawdy quibbles" : to make up insults or to make puns (play on words)... "Villain, I have done thy mother." (Titus Andronicus) Translation: Yo mama…

6/6

Bard : a lyric poet

Did you know?

There was a lot of gang conflicts between the different theater companies in the bad south of London. Plots were stolen, actors were attacked... so more and more people demanded to close theaters to resist against crime. Some also think that Shakespeare might have been a dangerous thug involved in organised crimes... but his wonderful work crossed the ages.

Now let's recap what you've learned.

To link two opposites ideas, use "though" or "and yet".

Though Shakespeare’s lines are often believed to be old-fashioned, some rappers imitate Shakespeare’s style.
Shakespeare’s lines are often believed to be old-fashioned, and yet some rappers imitate Shakespeare’s style.

Now let's recap what you've learned.

Rapping = Being a modern poet

Shakespeare was a famous _________ ________ . He wrote ________ and ________, _________ or again. ____________. He worked for the ________ of __________ (_________ _ ). He wrote ________ stories, __________ and _________ / __________.

Shakespeare’s lines are often believed to be old-fashioned ≠ some rappers imitate Shakespeare’s style. Rappers’ language is often said to be rude ≠ some rappers can be as poetic as Shakespeare. Everybody thinks that rap singers invented punchlining ≠ Shakespeare was as good at punchlines as rappers. Shakespeare was modern in his time. Shakespeare (influence) ________ __________ modern rappers.

2. Let's watch : How to rap Shakespeare

"I'll beat thee (= you), but I would infect my hands." Shakespeare (Timon of Athens, IV, iii)