Poems ESL Listening

(TESOL Worksheets--Listening, Poetry, Comprehensible Input)

* A Parody (Heavenly Union)

* A Worker Reads History by Bertolt Brecht

* Antigonish by Hughes Mearns (1899)
* Backward Bill by Shel Silverstein (1981)
* Cats by Eleanor Farjeon
* Cloony the Clown by Shel Silverstein (1981)
* Dance of the Dolphins by Joan Stimson
* Dreadful by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* Eletelephony by Laura Elizabeth Richards
* Fox in Socks by Dr Seuss
* Help by Shel Silverstein (1996) 
* Homework Machine by Shel Silverstein (1981)
* It is Sweet and Fitting by Wilfred Owen
* Ladies First by Shel Silverstein (1981)
* Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein (1974)

* Lenin is Turned Into a Frog in 1917 by ChatGPT
* Listen to the Mustn'ts by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* Messy Room by Shel Silverstein (1981)
* Mice by Rose Fyleman
* Moses Supposes his Toeses are Roses
* Mrs Bunny Had Twins by Nicola Baxter
* My Rules by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
* Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
* Pierre by Maurice Sendak
* Roger was a Razor Fish by Al Pitman (1980)

* Rats Building Bicycles by ChatGPT

* Rats Building Bicycles and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work by ChatGPT

* Rats Building Bicycles and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work and Becoming Pirates by ChatGPT

* Rats Building Bicycles, and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work and Becoming Pirates, and then Finally Finding Religion by ChatGPT

* Rats Building Bicycles, and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work and Becoming Pirates, and then Finding Religion, but Finally Becoming Atheists by ChatGPT
* SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT WOULD NOT TAKE THE GARBAGE OUT by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* Sick by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* Sounds and Letters Don't Agree by Lord Cromer (1902)
* The Ant-Eater by Roald Dahl (1983)
* The Battle by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* The Boa Constrictor Poem by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* The Crocodile by Roald Dahl (1983)
* The Crocodile's Dentist by Shel Silverstein (1974)
* The Dentist and the Crocodile by Roald Dahl

* The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daughters sold into Southern Bondage by John Greenleaf Whittier

* The Heavenly Union

* The Kitten and the Kangaroo by Joan Stimson

* The Next War by Osbert Sitwell

* The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear: Poems ESL Listening
* The Pig by Roald Dahl (1983)
* The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt (1829)
* The Tiger who Wore White Gloves, or, What You Are You Are by Gwendolyn Brooks

* The Veteran by Margaret Postgate Cole

* The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
* The Wolf Hunt

* This is the House that Jack Built: Poems ESL Listening
* What are Little Boys Made Of
* What Did You Learn in School Today by Tom Paxton (1964)
* What-if by Shel Silverstein (1981)
* When All the World is Young, Lad by Charles Kingsley (1863)

* Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
* The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them by Robert Southey (1799)
* You Are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll (1865)

While I've been going through - my - reading - lesson - archives for my new Story Time: ESL Listening project,
And I've decided I want to add make listening lessons out of my poem collection as well.
When I was teaching teenagers in Cambodia, I used to use one poem every lesson.  I posted my collection of poems up in March 2015.  I've got 32 of them (which was enough to get me through one term).  I'm going to go through them alphabetically and start making short little videos that can act as little listening lessons for the poems.  I'm going to post the videos on this blog as I make them, and index them above.

Update: I'm creating homework sheets for the students to practice these poems at home.  The Google Drive folder is HERE.

Playlist HERE