《英语》（八年级上册）
Unit 7 Seasons
Reading (II)
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. learn how to use some words and phrases;
2. understand and feel the beauty of the poem from different aspects;
3. learn to write a stanza of a poem by themselves.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: shower, upon, as, temperature, drop, butterfly, memory, stream,
shade, pile, harvest, crop, be full of, forget to grow, fly, brown, fall into
piles upon the ground, harvest crop
2. Sentences: What a perfect time to fly a kite!
Farmers work to harvest crops, as the days are shorter and temperature drops.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Understand the beauty of the poem
Encourage students to design a new stanza by themselves.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Review the words and phrases that students learn last period
(1) Complete the sentences with the words of last period
(2) Complete the passage with the words of last period
2. Review the poem by encouraging the students to recite the poem with the help of the giving words
【设计意图】复习reading中生词，并通过复述课文来达到巩固文本内容的目的。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Enjoy the beautiful language of the poem
Lead students to analyze use of the words and sentences in the poem:
(1) Words to show the beauty of nature
(2) Words to show feelings
(3) Sentences which use personifications
2. Enjoy the beautiful rhymes of the poem
(1) Lead students to read the poem again and feel the rhymes and pronunciation of the last words in each line.
(2) Discussion: What are the functions of the rhymes?
(3) Enjoy the beautiful rhymes.
3. Enjoy the beautiful structure of the poem
(1) Discussion: What is the difference between the poems and other literary works in structure?
(2) Get students to go through the poem again and try to feel the difference between the poems and other literary works in structure.
4. Summary: What makes a poem beautiful?
【设计意图】通过问答与讨论以及图片的使用，使学生对词语的美的理解层层深入，在视觉的帮助下体会作者用拟人等手法所创建的意境，构成视觉、听觉和动觉意象的结合，在脑海中留下美妙的景象。通过让学生朗读诗歌中的韵律，让其充分感悟诗人的艺术审美以及运用词语和结构带来的音乐般的快感。引导学生认识诗歌结构的排列美，启发学生将本课所学的诗歌与其他文学作品进行比较从而感受到诗文的谐趣横溢，引人入胜。
Step 3 Consolidation
1. Enjoy the beautiful rhymes
Present a new poem with inside rhymes to get students to feel the beauty of different kinds of rhymes and understand the fun_ction of the rhymes.
2. Try to be a poet: fill in the blanks
Encourage students to think of proper words to fill in the blanks which make the poem sound rhythmic.
3. Read and discuss
Show a new stanza and encourage students to analyze it by thinking about the questions below:
Are there any rhymes in the poem?
Are there any beautiful words in the poem?
What shape does the stanza look like?
4. Write a poem
Encourage students to work out their own poem by imitating the content, structure and rhyme styles of the sample stanza.
【设计意图】在老师的引导下，学生带着思考进行自我创作，充分发挥学生的主观能动性和创造性。
5. Learn some useful expressions
Explain “be full of” and “forget to do”.
Step 4 Conclusion
Ask students to draw a conclusion about what is in a poem.
V. Homework
Ask students to search on the Internet for more poems about the seasons. Compare and choose out what they think a good poem and share it in class. Try to tell why they think it good.
课件26张PPT。Unit 7 Seasons Reading (II) He will never forget the exciting trip.
The man has a sweet m_________ of skiing.emoryReview the wordsWe can often see beautiful b___________ fly among flowers.You may meet a sudden April s________.utterflieshowerReview the wordsIt is very hot. The t____________ is high. But we can find a cool place by a s_________. We can enjoy the s_______ of trees
emperaturetream hadeReview the wordsWe can see p ______ of leaves upon the ground.
And the farmers are busy harvesting c______.ropsilesReview the wordsSeasons of the yearIn winter, white (1) ________ covers the whole earth. It is often very cold and the (2) ____________ can drop below zero.
The weather is nice in spring. A windy day is (3) _________ for flying a kite. (4) ________ and butterflies play among flowers. Then they (5) ________ away when the April showers come.
People often have sweet (6) _________ of summer days. They go swimming and eat (7) ____________. They like to play by quiet (8) _______ or under the (9) ________ of trees.
When autumn comes, the (10) _________ turn brown and
(11) _____ into piles upon the ground. Farmers are busy harvesting (12) ________. Soon it will be a new year once again.snowtemperatureperfectBeeshidememoriesice creamstreamsshadeleavesfallcropsReview the wordsRecite this poem. The following words may help you!
此处添加内容此处添加内容此处添加内容Review the poemWhat do you think of this poem after learning it?
I think it is ….sadexcitingdepressedbeautifulThere is snow everywhere.It’s a _______stream.quietEnjoy the beautiful language Words to show the beauty of natureThe world is ____ of snow.fullThere is no sound near the stream.We feel happy when we think of eating ice cream. Those are ______ memories.It’s a very good time to fly kites.sweetWords to show feelingsWhat a perfect time to fly kites!It’s a perfect time to fly kites.Enjoy the beautiful language People feel lazy on summer afternoons.Personification (拟人手法) lazy afternoonsDo afternoons feel lazy too?Enjoy the beautiful language forget to growplay among the flowershide from the showersPersonification (拟人手法)Enjoy the beautiful language
Rhymes make the poems sound like music.
Rhymes are easy to remember and fun to produce.
Rhymes help strengthen (强化) the poets’ writing.What is the fun_ction (作用) of rhymes?Enjoy the beautiful rhymes Winter days are full of snow,
When trees and flowers forget to grow,
And the birds fly far away
To find a warm and sunny day. The days of spring are windy and bright,
What a perfect time to fly a kite!
Bees and butterflies play among flowers,
Then hide from the April showers.
[ou][ei][t][au?z] Those sweet memories of summer days
Are about quiet streams and trees and shade,
And lazy afternoons by a pool,
Eating ice cream to feel cool.
Then autumn leaves turn brown,
Fall into piles upon ground.
Farmers work to harvest crops,
As the days are shorter and the temperature drops.
Soon the snowy seasons will begin,
And it will be a new year once again.[ei][u:l] [aun] [?ps] [g] Enjoy the beautiful rhymes It is called end rhymes.What is the difference between the poems
and other literary works (文学作品) in structure?Poems don’t fill the whole page.
Poems arrange in lines according to sentences and rhymes.
Poems are divided into several stanza (诗节).
Some of the stanzas may look like special shapes.
Go through the poem again and check it with
the points above.What makes the poem beautiful?It uses beautiful language.
It has beautiful rhymes.
It has beautiful structures.Enjoy the beautiful rhymes Spring, the sweet spring,
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dancer in a ring,
Cold does not sting, the pretty birds do sing.It has rhymes inside, the poet uses [I] over
and over again to show the beautiful views
and liveliness in spring. Sweet SpringTry to be a poet Summer In winter I get up at night???????????????
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other _____,????
I have to go to bed by day.??????????
I have to go to bed and see????????????????
The birds still hopping in the _____,????
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet???
Still going past me in the ______.????????
And does it not seem hard to you,??
When all the sky is clear and blue,???
And I should like so much to, ____?????
To have to go to bed by day????????????waytreestreetplayRead and discuss Autumn,
Such a windy season,
Golden leaves dance with emotion.
I was lost in the beauty,
Like heaven.
Discussion:
Are there any rhymes in the poem?
Are there any beautiful words in the poem?
What shape does the stanza look like? Let’s work out our own poem
Fall,
________________,
______________________________,
___________________,
_______.
Autumn,
Such a windy season, (描述秋天)
Golden leaves dance with emotion.（所见/听/感）
I was lost in the beauty,（所做）
Like heaven.
Are there any rhymes in your poem?
Are there any beautiful words in your poem?
What shape does your stanza look like? 1. Winter days are full of snow.
be full of = be filled with 充满
The library is full of students.
= The library is filled with students.
图书馆里学生满满的。Explanation2. When trees and flowers forget to grow.
forget to do sth 忘记做某事
forget doing sth 忘记做过某事
Don’t?forget?to turn off the light.
别忘了关灯。
I?forgot?reading the book. 我忘记了以前读过这本书。 What is in a poem?Let’s concludenice rhymesbeautiful languageSpecial structuresWhat makes me see,
hear and feelPainting with words…HomeworkSearch on the Internet for more English poems about the seasons.
Compare and choose what you think a good poem and share it in
class. Try to tell why you think it good.
