Voica

VOICATHE DEAD BROTHER SONGRomanian version

Audio visual materialsVoica is the Romanian version of The Dead Brother Song, piece of material which was selected for our Travelling Words Erasmus+ project.

Enjoy!

Step I

Select and work on materials.This was done by our M1 Erasmus+ team – Alexandra, Bianca, Diana & Medina

Activity LayoutThe team researched the poem online.The poem was presented to the class.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcYhcNFbSsThe students listened to the poem.

The English equivalent was also presented to the class and students were asked to compare the two versions and find similarities between them.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Brother's_Song

The poem was presented to two classes of different age groups in order to work on it from different perspectives.Group 1 – the eighth graders – identified common symbols and meanings.

Voica Brotherly love

Rise from the dead

Supernatural powers

Balad or legend?

The second group, fifth graders, worked on common characters and the relationship between them. The aim of the activity:- Read and understand part of a poem in

English;- Correlate characters between the

Romanian and the English version;- Revise vocabulary – family members;- Family tree – follow up activity

Characters

• Nine brothers & one sister• Distressed mother

Common words

• Family related words• Movement verbs• Impressive adjectives

Vocab practice

• crossword puzzle• word snake

Follow up activityThe students were asked to listen to the Greek version of the poem, just to “sense the emotion” and compare it to the “feeling” of the Romanian one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pMclm0CRc

Conclusions Students found the poem a bit too long, nonetheless, interesting.The eighth graders understood it because they were able to correlate it with some Romanian themes and motifs.The fifth graders enjoyed the follow up activities and worked on the puzzles thoroughly.