课件21张PPT。Unit 2 Poem Warm up
Task 1. Ss in pairs talk about Chinese and foreign poems they learned before. Ss try to match the following information.
Du Fu Tang Dynasty
Fan Zhongyan Song Dynasty
Meng Haoran Modern
Guo Moruo Modern
Mao Zedong Tang Dynasty
Byron America
Shelly England
Emerson England
Tagore Germany
Goethe India Task 2. Ss discuss the reasons why people write poems.
to tell a story
to express feelings
to make others laugh
to create images in the readers
to express a point of view
to make the reader experience the sight, sounds, smells,
feel and taste of something
to create a mood
to play with words
….
Pre- reading
Task 3.
People from different countries write different kinds of poems. Do you have a favourite poem in Chinese? Why is it your favourite poem? Do you have a favourite poem in English? Why is it your favourite poem?
Fast reading Task 4: The reading passage discusses five kinds of poems. What are they?
Five kinds of poemsNursery rhymesCinquain List poemsHaiku Tang poemsOther types of English poems:
Epic (史诗)
Dramatic poems (戏剧诗)
Metrical tale (故事诗)
Ballad (民谣)
Lyric (抒情诗)
Didactic poems (说理诗)
Parody (模仿诗)
Clerihews (打油诗)Clerihews (打油诗)
写打油诗的规则:
一首诗包含四句。
第一和第二句押韵,第三和第四句押韵。
第一句以人名结尾,第二句以和人名押韵的词结尾。
Our art teacher, Mr Shaw,
Really knows how to draw.
But his awful paintings,
Have caused many faintings.Task 5: Scanning: Ss scan the poems and fill in the following form.
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Second reading:
Ss read and answer the questions of Ex 2 on page 11.Sample answers:
The main topic of the reading passage: different forms of English poems.
Nursery rhymes; list poems; cinquain; haiku; Tang poems.
Poem A has a strong rhythm. Poems A and B have rhyming lines.
Poem F, G and H gives a clear picture in the mind. Some poetic devices:
rhythm
rhyme
repetition
sound patterns : e.g. alliteration (头韵)
imagery : create pictures (images) by putting words together in a skillful way.
Poems F, G and HPoem E : summer, sleepy, salty;
drying, drooping, dreadingTask 7. Third reading: Ss read again and fill in the chart.Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to recite Repeated phrases and some rhyme Practice
Poetry is used to tell a story or _________ what will give us a strong impression. Or it is used to ______ certain _______.
______________ is a common type of children’s poetry. They ______ children because of strong rhythm and _______ and also repetition, and make them easy to learn and ________ when they learn about language.
Cinquain, a poem, consists of _______ lines, where students can convey a strong ______ in just a few words.describeconveyemotionsNursery rhymesdelightrhymerecitefivepicture4. ______ a _______ form of poetry rather than a traditional form of English poetry, has ___________, and gives a clear picture and creates a ________ feeling in just a few words.
5. Tang poems, a Chinese form of poetry, whose English ___________ have a _______ form, is so popular that English speakers like to __________ it.HaikuJapanese17 syllablesspecialtranslationsfreecope Task 8:
Ss listen to the recording of the passage and try clapping the beats. Then answer the questions on page 12.
Sample answers:
A. 1.If the mirror gets broken, the baby’s father will buy a billy-goat instead.
2. If the goat runs away, the baby’s father will buy another goat.
C. 1. The speaker is writing about football.
2. No, his or her team didn’t win.
3. The players didn’t win because: Jack didn’t score that goal; they didn’t have enough time; they hadn’t train hard…. 4. The speaker doesn’t really believe his or her own excuses, because there has too many ifs…
5. Yes. I always give excuses when I don’t win or do something.
No. I’ve never given any excuses when I don’t win or do something.
D, E. 1. D: his /her brother
E: summer
2. D: Yes
E: No.H : 1. The poem tells a story about a woman who was waiting on the mountain top foe her husband. The story goes like this: A loyal wife kept standing on a mountain top waiting for her husband’s coming back. Year after year the wife became a stone which looks like a woman watching into far distance. 2. The woman has the feelings of :
loneliness: she was alone watching her husband on the mountain top.
Love: she waited year after year despite wind and rain.
Trust: she believed her husband would come back one day.
Sorrow: year after year, she waited and waited without seeing any hope of her husband’s coming back, she was very sad.