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Poetry

C2Unit 1

Poetry

Five poets, five voices, your reading

6 lessons79 min101 words

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Lessons

  1. 1

    Peyo Yavorov

    About 13 minutes · 66 steps

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  2. 2

    Dimcho Debelyanov

    About 15 minutes · 74 steps

  3. 3

    Hristo Smirnenski

    About 13 minutes · 63 steps

  4. 4

    Nikola Vaptsarov

    About 13 minutes · 65 steps

  5. 5

    Pencho Slaveykov

    About 12 minutes · 61 steps

  6. 6

    Reading poetry aloud: metre and stress

    About 13 minutes · 67 steps

  7. Unit test

    20 questions · Pass mark: 80%

1 star: complete the lesson. 2 stars: at least 85% accuracy. 3 stars: at least 98%.

What you’ll learn

  1. Support a reading of repetition, negation and mirror structure.
  2. Distinguish wished-for action from a report of an event in an elegy.
  3. Recognise how contrast and personification convey compassion.
  4. Trace the conversational gesture and verse boundaries in Vaptsarov.
  5. Connect inversion and sound details with contemplation.
  6. Prepare a justified reading without distorting lexical stress.

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