高中英语必修6 Unit 2 Poems 教学设计
Teaching Aims:
1. KNOWLEDGE:
Know something about English poetry: such as:
What is poetry?
Why do people write poems?
What is the main structure of each kind of poem?
What are the usual topics of poems?
How to write English poems?
2. ABILITY:
Understand the passage well and finish the exercises.
3. EMOTION:
Learn to write an English poem.
Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
1. The basic knowledge of poetry.
2. How to help the students to understand the passage better.
3. How to help the students grasp the structures of each kind of poem in the passage and learn to write an English poem of their own.
Teaching Methods:
1. Brainstorming to collect any basic knowledge about English poetry.
2. Fast-reading to grasp the main topic of each poem.
3. Careful reading to learn the detailed contents and structures of every kind of poem in the passage.
4. Listening and clapping hands to appreciate the rhyme and rhythm of English poem.
5. explanation and summarizing to help the students try writing an English poem of their own.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1: Greeting
Step 2: Warming up
Brainstorming
(Purpose: To know some basic knowledge of English poetry)
Now, let’s read an article, named A FEW SIMPLE PORMS OF ENGLISH POEMS.
Step 3: Fast reading
Now please read the eight poems in the reading passage and try to find out the topics in these poems. Finish the exercise in Pre-reading part according to your reading.
Which poem?
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
describe a person?
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tells a story?
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describes an aspect of a season?
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is about a sport?
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is about things that don’t make sense?
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is recited to a baby?
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describes a river scene?
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has rhyme words at the end of lines
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repeats words and phrases?
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Step 4: Careful reading
Please read the passage quickly and finish the following exercises.
Ex. One Choose the best answers:
主旨归纳：
1. What does the passage mainly talk about? It’s about ____.
A. the development of English poems
B. the future of English poems
C. all kinds of English poems
D. some kinds of English poems
细节理解：
2. How many kinds of poems does the reading passage refer to?
A. 2 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
3. What kind of poem does Poem A and B?
A. Nursery rhymes B. List poems
C. Haiku D. Tang poem
4. Which two poems have rhythm words at the end of lines?
A. B and C B. A and E C. A and B D. G and F
推理判断：
5. What feeling do you think the Tang poem expressed?
A. Joy B. Anger C. Sorrow D. Hate
EX. Two Answer the following questions:
1. What five kinds of poems does the reading passage talk about?
(Nursery rhymes, list poems, the cinquain, haiku, Tang poems)
2. Which poems give you one clear picture in you mind?
(Poem F G and H)
【BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE】
{Poems like F G and H are called imagery ones. They usually use simile to create a picture or image in the reader’s mind to earn a better understanding.
Another kind of poem is classified as Sound pattern. It’s called Alliteration, meaning the same consonant is repeated, e.g. slippery, slimy and snails. Poems D and E are in this group.}
Step 5: Listening
Listen to the tape. Pay attention to the main characteristics or structure of each kind of poem.
1. Poem A and B pay special attention to their rhyme and rhythm. The students may clap their hands along with the reading. They will listen to Poem A and B for two times to help them see the rhythm well. It will be shown out in the multimedia.
2. Poem D and E. Cinquain is made up of 5 lines and has the following structure.
Line 1 a noun that names the subject of the poem
Line 2 two adjectives that describe the subject
Line 3 three verbs ending with –ing that describe the subject’s action
Line 4 four words that give the writer’s opinion of feelings about the subject
Line 5 a word that gives another name for the subject
3. Poem F G and H Haiku is made up of 17 syllables and has the following structure:
Line 1 5 syllables
Line 2 7 syllables
Line 3 5 syllables
(If necessary, explain what syllables are and how to distinguish syllables)
Step 6: Summary
We have learnt 5 kinds of poems in this passage. They are Nursery rhymes, list poems, cinquain, haiku and Tang poems. They have their own characteristics. Let’s summarize them together.
Forms of poems
characteristics
Nursery rhymes
Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to recite
list poems
Repeated phrases and some rhyme
cinquain
Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture within just a few words.
haiku
Made up of 17 syllables;
Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words.
Tang poems
The translations have a free form
Step 7: Homework
After class, please:
1. Read the passage again and try to grasp the main characteristics of each kind of poem.
2. Try writing your own English poems.
3. If time permits, let the students appreciate a beautiful English poem and also a song:
“A Red Red Rose.” If not, lay it to the next period.
A Red Red Rose
O, my luve;s like a red red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O, my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear
While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve,
And fare thee weel a while1
And I will come again, my luve
Though it were ten thousand miles.
luve (Scotch ): love
melodie: melody
fair art thou: beautiful are you
lass(Scotch ): a young woman, also sweetheart
thee: you
a’: all
gang(Scotch ): go
wi’: with
o’: of
fare thee weel: farewell, good-bye to you
Afterthought:
The topic in this period is interesting to the students. Most of them are active in the course. They show great interest to write their own English poems. I will collect their English poems , pick out the good ones and show them out to all the class. If possible, I will print the best ones for them. And I do think that songs and poems are good tools for language learning. I will try using them well in my later English teaching.
