Unit 2 poems
Content analyze:本单元以poems为主题,主要介绍了几种简单的不同内容和形式的诗歌, 本单元引导学生讨论这些内容, 目的在于让他们了解诗歌的一些基本特征和写作方法,自己尝试写简单的诗歌,并学会欣赏这些优美的文学作品。
课型设计与课时分配
1stperiod 2nd period 3rdperiod 4th period 5th period 6th period 7th period
Reading Language study Language points(2) Grammar Listening Speaking Integratingskills Integratingskills
Period 1
Warming up and Reading
Teaching Aims:
Help the students to talk about some simple forms of English poems
Difficulty and importance:
The forms of poems
Teaching methods:
Skimming and Scanning ;individual, pair or group work; discussion.
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector, a recorder, and some famous paintings.
Teaching Procedures & ways
Step 1 Poems recitation
I seek but seek in vain,
I search and search again;
I feel so sad , so drear,
so lonely, without cheer.
寻寻觅觅,
冷冷清清,
凄凄惨惨戚戚。
李清照---《声声慢》
If winter comes,
can spring be far behind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
--- Ode to the west wind
冬天来了,
春天还会远吗
雪莱--- 《西风颂》
Step 2 fast reading
1.How many kinds of poems did the text mention What are they
2. fill in the forms
Forms of poems feature
Nursery rhymes
List poems
Cinquain
Haiku
Tang poem
Step 3 Careful reading
Listen to poem A and choose the best answer
1.What’s the baby’s father going to buy if the mirror gets broken
A. a mocking bird B. a diamond ring
C. looking glass D. a billy-goat
2. What is Papa going to buy for the baby if that billy-goat runs away
A. a looking glass B. today
C. another billy-goat D. nothing
Listen to POEM C and answer the following questions
1.What sports do you think the speaker is writing about
2.Did his or her team win the game
3. How many excuses did they make to explain why the didn’t win
4. Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuse How do you know
Poem D & E
1.What subject is the speaker writing about
Poem D:____________
poem E:________
2. Does the speaker like the subject
Step four enjoy poems
Where she awaits her husband
On and on the river flows
Never looking back
Transformed into stone
Day by day upon the mountain top
Wind and rain revolve.
Should the journeyer return,
This stone would utter speech.
-----by Wang jian
Listen to the poem :
1. what’s the title
A.蝶恋花
B.竹枝词
C.望夫石
D.一剪梅
2. What is the poem about
A woman’s husband has gone away. The woman waits for him by the river where she last saw him. She waits and waits, never moving from that spot and never speaking, while the river continues to flow and the wind and rain come and go.
3. What are the adjectives to convey the woman’s feelings
A. loneliness B. joy C. love D. trust
E. anger F. hate G. sorrow
Step five Learn to write a cinquain
bother
Beautiful, athletic
Teasing, shouting , laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine
step six home work
1. finish exercise 1 & 2 in page 12
2. Write a poem
Period 2 language points
Teaching Aims: words and expressions
Difficulty and importance: new words
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector
Teaching Procedures & ways
1.aspect n. (1) [C ,U] ( 同look) 面貌,外表
(2) [C]( 同respect) 方面
(3) [C] (建筑)朝向
他从各方面考虑了这个问题。
He consider all the aspects of the problem.
Tangshan takes on an entirely new aspect.
唐山市面貌一新。
My house has a southern aspect.
2.poem n. [C] (一首)诗
poet n.[C] 诗人
poetry n.[U] [总称] 诗歌,诗篇,诗集
Robert is a __________.
I have written a ___________.
He bought a book of__________ yesterday.
3.nursery n. (1)[C] 保育室,托儿所(2)苗圃
nurse n. 保姆,护士
v. (1) 给……喂奶
(2)=look after 照料,看护
nursing n. [U] (职业性的)保育,护理
1. She takes up _________ as a career.
2. The parents left their child with the _________.
3. She ______ the swallow with care and love.
4. Mother is _________ the baby.
5. The _________teacher made the children sit
bold upright(笔直地坐着).
A. nursed B.nursing
C.nurse D. nursery
4. rhythm n.
1).节奏;韵律;节拍
the exciting rhythms of drum music
兴奋的鼓乐节拍
I can't dance to music without a good rhythm.
没有好的节奏我不能跟着音乐跳舞。
2).有规则的变化
the rhythm of the seasons
四季有规则的变化
Exercises
1. There are many _________ of the problem,
But you have only considered one of them.
A.respect B. aspects C.sides D.points
2. I was so excited at the news that I could
Hardly __________ my feelings in words.
A.carry B.convey
C.transmit D.communicate
3. My hometown has taken on a new _______.
A.looks B.appearance C.aspect D.way
5. diamond n.
1) 钻石;金刚石 2) 菱形 3)(纸牌的)红方块
a ring with a diamond in the center
一只中间镶有钻石的戒指
钻石戒指是最贵的。
The diamond ring is the most expensive.
I’ve only the 6 of diamonds.
diamond cut diamond
以强制强; 棋逢对手
6. looking-glass
7.fishpond
fishbowl
fisheye
fishhook
fishline
fishnet
fishworm
fishpot
fishskin
fishtail
8. Though strange they all were true. (虽然, 尽管)
该句是一个省略句,可还原为(Though they were
Strange…) Though, although 两个连词用法基本
一样,都引导让步状语从句。
只是though口语化, although较正式,
都不与 but连用,但可以和yet, still 连用。
Although the TV set is very dear, I still bought it.
Though (he was) worn out, he kept on working.
Exercise
Though it was raining, but he went there. _______
9.take it easy v. 从容, 不紧张, 松懈, 轻松
If we hadn’t taken it easy, we would have won.
如果我们没松懈的话,我们就赢了。
沉住气,不要害怕。
Take it easy. Don’t be afraid.
Lucy would like to take things easy when she is
on holiday.
Take things easy= take it easy
Exercises.
1. ---I’m nervous about the Driver’s License
Examination tomorrow.
---__________. You are sure to succeed.
2. ---It’s getting late. I’m afraid I must be going
now.
---OK. ____________.
A. See you. B.Go slowly.
C. Take it easy. D. Cheer up
Period three word study (2)
Teaching Aims:words and expressions
Difficulty and importance:new words
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector
Teaching Procedures & ways
1.辨析 run out 与 run out of
run out vi. 用完了,=become used up ,其主语
通常为时间,食物,金钱等物。
run out of vt. 指(某人)用完了(某物),主语
一般是人。
His money soon ran out.
He is always running our of money before payday.
I have ______________ my oil.
Our ink has _______________.
2.make up(1)组成,构成 (2) 编造 (3)弥补
(4)化妆 (5)创作 (6)铺床
a.Two doctors and six nurses made up the medical
Team.
= The medical team is made up of two doctors
and six nurses.
Exercises
1. Don’t believe him. He_________ a story.
A. makes up B.is making up C.makes up of
2. ---I feel terrible. Am I dying
---_________. You’ve just caught a cold. Take
The medicine and you’ll be better soon.
A. It does’t matter B. nonsense
C. You are kidding. D. Take it easy
3.---Excuse me, will you change this one-thousand
-dollar note for me
---Sorry, but we _________ change ourselves.
A. are running of B. are running out of
C. are lacking in D. break down
3.tease
(4)n. 爱 嘲弄他人的人
别逗猫。
Don’t tease the cat.
Don’t take what she said seriously. She’s only
Teasing.
She always laughs at others. What a tease she is!
Although your deskmate is a little fat, you must not
tease her.
She teased the wool with a comb
4. …but it is very popular with English speakers.
sth be popular with sb. 受……欢迎
Exercise
__________, the new teacher is very popular ______ the pupils.
A. To our joy; with
B. with our joy; by
C. To our sorrow; with
D. With our sorrow; by
5.Translate vt. 翻译;解释、说明;转成
把说的话付诸行动
Translate words into action
How would you translate his silence
你如何理解他的沉默?
你能把汉语翻译成英语吗?
Can you translate Chinese into English
translation n 翻译
translator 翻译家; 译者
6. branch n. (1) 枝条 (2) 支流
(3)(学科的)分科,部门 (4) 支部,分部
这家银行在市内有十家分行。
The bank has ten branches in the city.
很多鸟栖息在树枝上。
Many birds are on the branch.
这条河有很多支流。
The river has a lot of branches.
物理是科学的一门学科。
Mary has left the company and branched out her own.
玛丽离开公司做起了自己的生意。
Exercises
1. The company’s head office is in the city,But it has _____________(部门) all over the country.
2.____________________(路分叉) where the tall building stands.
3. ________________________ (党小组) were Completely destroyed then.
7. Snow having melted, the whole village is brimful of happy children.
Snow having melted 为动词–ing形式的独立结构,其逻辑主语通常与句子的主语不一致。
这种主语常常是名词或主格代词。动词 –ing形式的独立结构常用作状语,表示伴随情况、
时间、原因等。
Circumstances(环境) having been changed, it is necessary for you to make a new plan.
8.transform vt.
(1)Water can transform a desert into a garden.
Ten years of hard work _________ Mathilde Completely _________ an ordinary housewife.
A. Translated ; into B.translated; for
C. Transformed; into D. transformed; to
Period 4
The Subjunctive Mood
Teaching Aims:
Help the students to use the subjunctive mood correctly in different situations.
Difficulty and importance
Enable the students to use the correct form o f of the subjunctive mood
Teaching methods:
Summarizing, comparative method; practicing activities
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector
Teaching Procedures & ways
形式情况 条 件 从 句 主 句
与现在事实相反
与过去事实相反
与将来事实相反
B. 虚拟语气在某些从句中的应用
1、虚拟语气在主语从句中的用法
① It is desired (suggested requested, ordered, demanded…) + that…;
② It is strange (necessary, possible, important, surprising,natural…) +that…; ③ It is a pity ( no wonder…) + that… 等结构后的主语从句中的谓语动词用should +动词原形,should常被省略。
例: It is desired that we(should) get everything ready by tonight.
他那样说话,令人吃惊
真遗憾,你失去了这么好的机会。
已经决定了把运动会推迟至下个月。
高中学生掌握一门外语很有必要。
2、虚拟语气在宾语从句中的用法
(1) 在表示提议、要求、命令、决定等动词如suggest, decide, require, request, demand, propose, insist, order等)后的宾语从句中谓语动词常用“should+动词原形”。Should常被省略。
一个坚持(insist),两个命令(order, command),三个建议( suggest, advise, propose),四个要求( ask, demand request, require)
eg: He ordered that the medicine (should) be sent by a special plane.
They proposed that the prize be given to our monitor.
I insist that he give me my money back.
(3) 在主语+would rather +that 宾语从句中,从句谓语用过去式表示现在或将来,用过去完成式表示与过去事实相反 。
I would rather they went with me.
They would rather go with me.
I would rather we had the exam tomorrow.
I would rather nothing had happened last night.
4、虚拟语气在表语从句和同位语从句的用法
在suggestion, proposal, order, idea, news, request,advice, demand, plan 等名词后面的表语从句中的谓语动词用should+动词原形,should常省略。
例 My suggestion is that we (should) do the experiment again.
My idea is that we should think it over before accepting it.
My suggestion that we (should) do the experiment again is accepted by them.
5、as if,as though在状语从句和表语从句的用法
由as if,as though 引导的状语从句表示比较或方式时和表语从句时,从句谓语形式为动词的过去式(be用were)或“had+过去分词”。(和虚拟条件谓语动词形式一样)
eg: He treats me as if I were a stranger.
eg: She talked about the film as if she had really seen it.
It seems _________ it ______ already summer.
He speaks English as if he were an Englishman.
注意:如果表示的事情可能会发生,那么方式状语从句中的谓语动词可用陈述语气。
1. He is not a pilot, but he wishes he ______ (be).
2. I wish I ___________(meet)him yesterday.
3. I wish it __________(be) fine tomorrow.
4. He ordered the work _________________ (start) at once.
5. I’d rather you _________(stay) at home all day today.
6. It is strange that he _____________ (make) such a mistake. That’s unexpected.
7. It was required that each student ________ (bring) enough food on the trip.
8. My demand is that you _____________ (get )up at six.
9. He speaks as if he ___________(be) an Englishman.
10. They talked as if they _____________ (be) good friends for years.
C. 虚拟语气在某些句型中的应用
1、在It is (high) time (that)…的句型中
在It is (high) time (that)…的句型中,定语从句的虚拟形式常用过去式或should+动词原形(should不能省略),表示“现在该……”
It is time we left/ should leave.
2、在If only… 的句型中
if only…表示一种假设情况,意思是“要是······就好了”,相当于主语+wish。
If only it were Sunday today.
If only I ____________my car.
3. 用介词短语代替条件状语从句。常用的介词由with, without, but for等。
What would you do with a million dollars =if you had a million dollars
We couldn’t have finished the work ahead of time without your help. (=if we hadn’t got your help)
But for rain(=If it hadn’t been for the rain), we would have finished the work.
4. 含蓄条件句 有时为了表达的需要,在虚拟语气中并不总是出现if引导的条件句,而通过其他手段代替条件句。
I was ill that day. Otherwise, I would have taken part in the sports meet.(副词)
He telephoned to inform me of your birthday, or I would have known nothing about it .(连词)
5.用在含有If it were not for或If it had not been for 条件句中。
6. 用于“may+动词原形”表示“祝愿……”,may须置于句首。
7. 表示委婉语气的句型中。
Even if he _______(be) here, he couldn’t solve the problem.
* Without air, there __________ (be) no living things.
* But for your help, I _________ _________ (not, do) it.
* If only I ____________(take) his advice, but I didn’t.
5. I was very busy yesterday, otherwise I _________________ (come) to the meeting.
6. Look at the clock! It’s (high) time we _______________(go) home.
Period 5 I’ve saved a summer
Teaching aims:
1. target language: pattern, darkness, warmth, thread
2. 交际用语: do you enjoy…
Do you think…
What did it make you feel or …
Difficulty and importance
How to talk about poems
Teaching methods:
Speaking; making conversation; comparative method
Fast reading; close reading ;discussion
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector, a recorder
Teaching Procedures & ways
Listening
* Do you think the speaker in the poem is more likely to be a girlfriend / boyfriend of a parent
2. Does the poem have a rhythmic pattern
Does th poem have rhyming words
When you were listening to the poem, did it make you feel something or think about something
What did it make you feel or think about
Step 2: poem appreciation
Read the poem after the tape, and circle the words that rhyme.
What is unusual about the rhyming words in the last four lines
3.listen to the poem and clap the strong beat
Step three discussion
1. who is the speaker in the poem and who is he/she speaking to Give your reason
2. which of the following is the closest to the speaker’s message Give your reason for your choice
A. if it’s cold, I’ll warm you; if it’s dark, I’ll give you light; if you are hungry, I’ll feed you; if you want love, I’ll give it to you
B. although the future may be difficult for you, whenever you need warmth and love, remember I’ll have some to give you
C. While you’re away, I’ll remember your smile and I’ll love you always, when you return, I hope you will love me.
Step four: word study
1 pattern n. (1)图案;花样 (2)方式 (3)式样 模型
你可以用这个纸样儿做一套衣服。
You can make a dress from this paper pattern.
a pattern of flowers on dress material
衣料上的图案花
The illness isn’t following its usual pattern.
病情没有按照其通常的方式发展.
pattern v.模仿, 仿造, 以图案装饰
She patterned herself after her teacher.
她模仿她的老师。
1. She’s examining a lot of dress _____ to choose
a most fashionable one.
A.patterns B.kinds C.models D.types
2. The illness is hard to cure only because it
doesn’t follow its usual ________.
A.way B.road C.pattern D.method
3. The colour and the size of the skirt are all right,
but I don’t like its _________.
A.way B.model C.pattern D.flowers
2.Bottom: the lowest part of something
I eventually found the keys at the bottom of my bag
The police searched the house from top to bottom
开放思维:
at bottom : 实际上, 内心里
bottoms up : 干杯
at the bottoms of the day: 在一天即将结束时
3. warmth n. 暖和, 温暖, 热心, 热情
用适当的派生词填空.
1.the diver can dive to a _________(deep) of 200
meters in the sea.
2.the boy gathered all his _______(strong) so as
to raise the big stone.
3. The traffic accident resulted in more than 60_____
(die).
4.underline vt. 加下划线, 强调 使…突出 n. 下划线
The school ___________(强调) the importance of
pre-school education.
underpay v.
underground adj
underfoot adv
underdone adj.
underestimate v.
Dotors are seldom ________ in Western countries.
A.underdone B.underlined C.underpaid
5.load n (1) 负荷, 重担, 装载量, 工作量, 负载
举起很重的东西可能有危险.
Lifting a heavy load can be dangerous.
马善受人骑, 人善受人欺.
All lay loads on a willing horse.
n. (2) 一担; 一驮; 一车
我不能把一担香蕉搬到楼上.
I cannot carry a load of bananas upstairs.
v. 装载, 装满
Have you finish loading up
你装满 了吗
loads of = a load of 大量; 许多
load down
load …with sth.
load sb. with a gift
1. He has got __________ money from his uncle.
A.a large amount of B.loads of
C.a load of D.All above
2. The workers are loading the goods _______ a
car, that is, they’re loading the car _____ goods.
A.with , with B.into,into C.into,with D.with,into
Period 6 listening
Teaching Aims:
Improve the students listening
Teaching methods:
Listening, discussing
Teaching aids
A computer a projector, and a recorder
Teaching Procedures & ways
Unit 2 listening
Page 15, 48 & 50
Page 15
Answer key for ex 1:
* Lucy 2. Jack 3. Lucy D. Tom
Answer key for Ex 2:
* 1. By the 24th of the minth
* 2. No, not completely, she thinks that if she had an extra week to work on it, she could improve it
* 3. Tom
* 4.because he finds that he notices all sorts of things and he has interesting thoughts
* 5.Because she likes the quiet and likes to have her own things around her
* 6.Yes, but he has never tries writing poetry to music before
Page 48
* Answer key to Ex 1
1. Lily, Chelsea
2. Lily, Chelsea
Answer key to Ex2
1. Wu zhe it’s rubbish
the language in poetry is strange
* Lily Poetry is like music
Poetry takes you to a different world
3. Chelsea I like experimenting with words
You don’t have to follow grammar rules
2. A Lily B. Wu zhe C. Chelsea
PAGE 50
Answer key for Ex 1
1.F 2.T 3.T 4.F 5.T
6.T 7.F 8.F
Answer key to Ex 2
Answer key to Ex 3
We know they are good friends because they are talking in a informal way, two examples of their informal talk are:
Sam, don’t you remember- we learnt about them in class
Oh, sam, it’s going to be funny.
Period 7 writing and speaking
Speaking
&
writing
Step 1: group poem
Work in groups, write a list poem starting with “if I …” like poem C on page 10. write one line each. It doesn’t have to rhyme.
If I were the ruler of the world, I would…
If I had a million dollars, I would …
If I had taken your advice, I would have/wouldn’t have …
Sample version 1
If I were the ruler of the world
If I were the ruler of the world
I would make some changes fast
I would make peace last
War disappear
I would make poor rich
Good become better
I would remove anything
Thing hinder the progress o human being
I would make the world
Full of harmony, friendship
And love
A true family
Sample version 2
If I had a million dollars
I would buy
Enough bread for hungry
Enough books for children
Enough ships for fishermen
Enough houses for homeless
Enough hope for the world
If I had taken your advice
If I had taken your advice,
I would have caught the train
I would have arrived on time
I would have met my father
I would have hugged him long
I would have thanked him more
I would have made him happiest
Man in the world
Step two Translate Tang poems
* 回乡偶书
少小离家老大回
乡音无改鬓毛衰
儿童相见不相识
笑问客从何处来
* 夏日绝句
李清照 ( http: / / jsjhlx.51.net / hcs / liqingzhao / liqingzhao.html )
生当作人杰,
死亦为鬼雄。
至今思项羽,
不肯过江东。
Step three: writing
1. Write a poem that starts with I feel happy when. The lines doesn’t have to rhyme
Or write a poem that starts with slowly and make each pair of lines rhyme.