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Do you enjoy Chinese or foreign poetry? Why or why not?
Do you enjoy writing or listening to poetry?
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Listen and say whether each student likes writing and / or listening to poetry.
Read the questions. Then listen to the teacher, Mr. Tanner, and three students, Wu Zhe, Lily and Chelsea, talking about their feelings about poetry.
Who enjoys listening to poetry?
Who enjoys writing poetry?
Lily and Chelsea.
Lily and Chelsea.
Listen to the conversation again and match the reasons he / she enjoys or doesn’t enjoy poetry.
Wu Zhe
Lily
Chelsea
Poetry is like music.
It’s rubbish.
I like playing with words.
The language in poetry is strange.
Poetry takes you to a different
world.
You don’t have to follow grammar rules.
Listen to the tape again. Match each student with the words they said and note the different feelings of the three students about poetry when they say the following words.
LILY: My heart sinks! Poetry, yuck!
WU ZHE: I love listening to it too ... But I'd
much rather be writing it.
CHELSEA: Sometimes I feel inspired and the
right words just come spilling out.
What are your feelings about poetry?
Compare them with the speakers in the listening.
Sample
S1: I enjoy listening to poetry especially if
the reader is an expressive reader. I close
my eyes and it is like listening to music.
S2: Really? I don’t like reading or listening
to poetry. Poetry’s rubbish if you ask
me. I would prefer a good pop song.
S1: Then you really miss a lot. It takes you to
another place in your mind. I like writing
it too. I enjoy playing with words and
sentences and lines.
S2: I think it sounds silly. People just write
anything as long as it sounds right. They
don’t seem to care about the meaning.
S1: I don’t understand you. Pop songs are
poetry too. You cannot just write down
whatever comes into your head. However
you can experiment with words and see
what you produce. That’s what I really
enjoy.
S2: That’s my experience when I put words
to music. It’s nice to know that what I am
doing is poetry …
Read Exercise 1 and learn about the information of the listening material.
Listen and check your answer.
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Decide the sentences are true or false.
The students have to give their poetry homework to the teacher today.
Sam is going to try to write his poem on the weekend.
Sam doesn’t like the poetry homework.
Sally doesn’t want to do her poetry homework.
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5. Sam doesn’t remember what a haiku is.
6. Ben is going to the park on Saturday.
7. Sam is going to write a poem about himself.
8. Sally, Ben and Sam are all present at the beginning of the conversation.
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Listen again and fill in the chart below.
cinquain
haiku
list poem
Ben
nature
the students in her class
Questions Sam Ben Sally
What kind of poem is the student going to write?
What topic is the student going to write about?
Listen to the tape again. Do Sally, Ben and Sam know each other very well? Find two pieces of evidence in their conversation to support your answer.
We know they are good friends because they are talking in a very informal way.
Two of their informal talk are:
Sam, don’t you remember - we learned about it in class?
Oh, Sam, it’s going to be funny.
Language points
1. I’d better have a go at it this weekend.
have a go at 试一下……，尝试……
Let’s have a go at it.
让我们来试试。
I’ll have a go at mending your bike today.
我今天试试修你的自行车。
2. You can leave me out of it!
leave out 省去，不考虑，遗漏
They must decide what to leave out.
She left out a “c” in “account”.
leave for 出发去
leave … for… 离开……去……
leave behind 留下，遗留
leave alone 不管，不理，不干涉
支票上她漏写了日期。 (leave out)
She left out the date on the cheque.
Listen to the tape and close your eyes, and then tell us your impression on each poem.
Discuss and then write about the characteristics of each poem.
Poem A: Tang poem
This poem has beautiful imagery that conveys deep feelings. There are many things that this poem makes the reader think about light heartedness and heavy heartedness; it contrasts morning and night, and creation and destruction.
Poem B:
Number of lines:
Rhythm:
Rhyme:
Repetition:
Part of speech:
adverb poem
two sets of four lines
regular strong beat
four pairs of rhyming lines
hungrily is repeated at the
beginning of each line regularly
the adverb hungrily starts each line
Poem C: song
This is a love song
Rhythm:
regular strong beat
Rhyme:
two pairs of rhyming lines
Repetition:
first two lines are repeated at the end of the song
Poem D: cinquain
Number of lines:
Topic:
Poem E: haiku
Number of lines:
Number of syllables:
five
sunshine
three
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Language points
I awake light-hearted this morning of
spring, …
light-hearted adj. 轻松的；无忧的
Perhaps I ought to conclude with a slightly more light-hearted question.
That evening he was in an unusually light-hearted mood.
The sun was shining, and he felt light-hearted and careless.
heavy-hearted 心情沉重的
2. … with nothing to mar our joy
mar v. 破坏，毁坏
If he does not break himself of his bad habit, he will mar his own career.
Age cannot mar her beauty.
Nothing marred their happiness.
with nothing to mar our joy 是“with+宾语+宾语补足语” 的结构， to mar our joy 是动词不定式作宾补。
I can’t go out with all these clothes to wash.
