THIS IS JUST TO SAY

• William Carlos Williams was an American poet. Read his biography and answer the questions

1. Where and when was he born?
2. What university did he go to?
3. What did he study?
4. What literary movement did he belong to?
5. Name two other poets that appear in the text
6. Where and when did he die?

• This is a very famous poem written by the American poet William Carlos Williams. Listen to him reading his poem

 

 
This is just to say

by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten

the plums

that were in 

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet and 

so cold

• Now it's your turn to create a poem with the same structure

• In this short poem you have to use sentences in the present perfect, past simple and past continuous. If you need to revise these tenses,click on them.