人教版高二英语选修6Unit 2 Poems Reading课件(69张ppt）

To get some knowledge about
poems and enjoy some Chinese and
English poems
2. To learn different forms of poetry
Do you remember any little poems or songs you learned when you were a child?
What is a poem?
A poem is a composition with rhythmic
balance expressing ideas or experiences
or feelings.
A poem is a literary work that is not in verse but deals with emotional or
descriptive themes in a rhythmic form.
A poem is a piece of writing in which
the words are arranged in separate
lines, often ending in rhyme, and are
chosen for their sound and for the
images and ideas they suggest.
A Grain of Sand
William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Have you read the two poems below?
一粒沙
威廉·布莱克
一沙一世界，
一花一天堂，
掌中无极限，
永恒刹那间。
Dreams
By L. Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That can never fly
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen only with snow
梦想
兰斯顿·休斯
紧紧抓住梦想，
千万别让它消亡，
否则生活就像鸟儿断了翅膀，
再也不能飞翔。
紧紧抓住梦想，
千万别让它消亡，
否则生活就像严冬的荒野，
遍地布满冰霜。
How many poets do you know?
Can you remember any poems you have read in school, either in Chinese or in English?
Quiz in Chinese traditional poems
Can you recite the Chinese traditional poems according to their English translation?
Let’s have a competition.
If you would ask me how my sorrow has increased,
Just see the over-brimming river flowing east!
虞美人 李煜
问君能有几多愁，
恰似一江春水向东流。
How long will the bright moon appear? Wine-cup in hand, I ask the sky.
I do not know what time of year,
It would be tonight in the palace on high.
水调歌头 苏轼
明月几时有？把酒问青天。
不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年。
I look for her in vain.
When all at once I turn my head,
I find her there where lantern light is dimly shed.
青玉案·元夕 辛弃疾
众里寻他千百度，
蓦然回首，
那人却在，
灯火阑珊处。
I seek but seek in vain,
I search and search again;
I feel so sad, so drear,
so lonely, without cheer.
声声慢 李清照
寻寻觅觅,
冷冷清清,
凄凄惨惨戚戚。
Can you name some famous Chinese poets and then recite their poems?
床前明月光，
疑是地上霜。
举头望明月，
低头思故乡。
五言绝句
静夜思 李白
死去元知万事空，
但悲不见九州同。
王师北定中原日，
家祭无忘告乃翁！
七言绝句
示儿 陆游
春眠不觉晓，
处处闻啼鸟。
夜来风雨声，
花落知多少。
五言绝句
春晓 孟浩然
昔闻洞庭水， 今上岳阳楼。
吴楚东南坼， 乾坤日夜浮。
亲朋无一字， 老病有孤舟。
戎马关山北， 凭轩涕泗流。
五言律诗
登岳阳楼 杜甫
Byron (拜伦) America
Emerson (爱默生) England
Shelly (雪莱) England
Tagore (泰戈尔) Germany
Goethe (歌德) India
Can you match the poets and their
living countries?
There are many reasons why people write poems. In small groups make a list of these reasons.
Why do people write poems?
People write poems
to tell a story
to express feelings
to make others laugh
to tell the life or friendship
to delight the kids
to tell stories
to describe the seasons or scenes
for entertainment
as the lyric of a song
Skim the passage and finish the tasks.
1. What is the main idea of the reading
passage?
Some simple forms of English poems.
Five kinds of poems
Nursery rhymes
Cinquain
List poems
Haiku
Tang poems
2. How many kinds of poems does the passage mention? What are they?
3. Tick the correct box(es) for each question.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Which poem?
Which poem?
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
has rhyming words at the end of lines?
repeats words or phrases?
Read the parts of the text
describing different forms of poetry
and fill in the blanks in the chart,
getting to know the different
patterns of each kind of poem.
recite?
rhythm ?
feeling
length
phrases
five????
picture?
17 ?
1. What is the poem about?
Poem A is a nursery thyme that illustrates a father’s love for his baby.
Nursery rhymes
What’s the main idea of poem B?
Poem B is an amusing nonsense poem which describes images of some ridiculous things.
List poems
Read Poems A and B and find out the rhyming words for the following words:
A:?word ____________; sing __________;
brass ____________; broke __________;
away ____________
B:?fire ___________; high _________;
lead ___________; race _________;
cat ___________; too _________
true
mockingbird
ring
looking-glass
billy-goat
today
squire
sky
dead
lace
hat
Read poem C.
What’s the main idea of poem C?
Poem C is about losing a football match and the writer lists a lot of excuses for their failure.
Why didn’t the players in poem C win? Write down three excuses that the author gives. Does the author really believe his or her excuses? How do you know?
They didn’t win because they didn’t have enough time; they didn’t have thousands of fans screaming; they stayed up too late the night before; they ran out of energy.
The author doesn’t believe his or her excuses, because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did
not play well enough to win.
A list poem is one of the easiest kinds of
poems to write because it can have as
many lines as the writer likes. But that
doesn’t mean you should write down
anything. Here’s a list of elements that
make a list poem instead of just a list:
The writer is telling you something —
pointing something out — saying, “Look at this” or “Think about this”.
How to write a list poem
2) There’s a beginning and an end to it,
like in a story.
3) Each item in the list is written the same
way.
Here’s an example of a list
poem about a noisy brother.
My Noisy Brother
He slurps when he eats cereal in the morning.
He gargles milk.
He burps after eating.
He cracks his knuckles.
He whistles.
He snaps his fingers.
He squawks when he's mad.
He snores at night.
What’s the main idea of poem D?
Poem D is a description of a lovely brother.
Cinquain
What’s the main idea of poem E?
Poem E is a description of hot and boring summer.
Poem D: his / her brother
Poem D: The author likes his subject. Although the speaker describes a couple of negative aspects of his / her brother, the reader can feel the affection that the speaker feels for his / her brother.
What are poems D and E about?
Do the authors like the subjects?
Give your reasons.
Poem E: summer
Poem E: The author doesn’t like his subject. The reader gets the feeling that the speaker cannot wait until the summer is over. The words drooping, dreading, week in, week out and endless convey this feeling.
The cinquain is made up of five 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
actions
Cinquain
Line 4: four words that give the writer’s
opinions or feelings about the
subject
Line 5: a word that gives another name
for the subject
What’s the main idea of poem F?
Poem F describes how a butterfly rests on a tree.
Haiku
What’s the main idea of poem G?
Poem G describes that the weather is warmer and the village is full of happy children.
Haiku is a form of Japanese lyric verse that encapsulates a single impression of a natural object or scene, within a particular season, in 17 syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
Haiku
Read Poems F and G again and divide the 17 syllables.
A fallen blossom
Is coming back to the branch.
Look, a butterfly!
Snow having melted,
The whole village is brimful
Of happy children.
A fall-en blos-som is com-ing back to the branch. Look, a
but-ter-fly!
Snow hav-ing
melt-ed, the whole vil-lage is brim-ful of hap-py chil-dren.
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 traveller return, this stone would utter speech.
望夫石
望夫处，江悠悠,
化为石，不回头。
山头日日风复雨，
行人归来石应语。
What is the story that the poem H tells?
Tell the story in your own words.
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.
What feelings below that you think the
woman in poem H has? Give your
reasons.
loneliness joy love
anger hate sorrow
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.
A SPRING MORNING
I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, Everywhere round me the singing of birds. But now I remember the night, the storm, And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.
(by Meng Haoran)
Enjoy more Tang poems.
The Willow
The slender tree is dressed in emerald all about,
A thousand branches droop like fringes made of jade.
But do you know by whom these slim leaves are cut out?
The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade.
By Meng Haoran
In the quiet night
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed–
Could there have been a frost already?
Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight.
Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of my home.
By Li Bai
Fill in the blanks according to the text.
There are various _________ (reason) why people write poetry. Some poems tell _______ story or describe something in a way _______ will give the reader a strong impression. Others try to convey certain emotions. Poets use many different forms of poetry __________ (express) themselves. In this text, __________, we will look at a few of the simpler forms.? Some of the first poetry a young child learns _______ English is nursery rhymes.
reasons
a
that
to express
however
in
These rhymes like the one on the right _________(be) still a common type of children’s poetry. The language is concrete but __________ (imagine) and these poems delight small children because _________(they) rhyme, have strong rhythm and a lot of repetition. The poems may not make sense and even seem contradictory, but they are easy to learn and recite. By _________ (play) with the words in nursery rhymes, children learn about language.?
are　
imaginative
they　
playing
Are poems good for our life? What can we get from poems?
1) Poems bring passion (激情) to our life.
2) Poems help us to understand life,
virtues (美德), beauty and romance.
3) Poems make us know we are here
and that we can make our life and
the world more colorful and beautiful.
Can you tell which form the following poems belong to?
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day;
Little Johnny wants to play.
Comment:
Johnny can be substituted for
any boy or girl name.
Nursery rhymes
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
List poem
Lily
out of the water
out of itself
Haiku
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious
Cinquain
Choose your favorite form of poems
and write one on your own. We’ll
share our own poems next class.