Unit 2 Poems

(Reading)

学习目标：

1、Knowledge and ability（知识与能力） ① Students will be able to learn and use the important words, phrases and sentence

patterns in the passage.

② Students will be able to use the key words , phrases and sentence patterns. 2、Process and approaches（过程与方法）

① Students will get to develop their independent and critical thinking ability and co-operative learning ability along with a deeper understanding of the passage.

② Students will learn how to explain the common idea---“ the simple forms of poetry” with the target language in this passage. 3、Emotions and values（情感与价值观）

① Students will be able to know the pattern of poems and admire them. ② Students will be able to know how to write a poem. 学习重点与难点： 1. Key points

① How to make students realize the five forms of poems.

② How to help students master the important phrases and sentence patterns to

contribute to their better understanding of the characteristics of pomes. 2. Difficult points

① How to help students to appreciate the useful sentences pattern and try to use them.

② How to help students gradually develop their critical ways of thinking.

【Before class】

Can you recite the Chinese traditional poems according to their English translation?

1. If you would ask me how my sorrow has increased, just see the over-brimming river flowing east!

2. 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. 3. I look for her in vain. When all at once I turn my head, I find her there where lantern light is dimly shed.

4. Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, to bring me my shadow and make us three.

5. Wildfire never quite consumes them -- they are tall once more in the spring wind.

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6. Looking up, I find the moon bright, bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned 7. Very quietly I take my leave as quietly as I came here;

Quietly I wave good-bye to the rosy clouds in the western sky.

【While class】

I、Before-reading（Group work）

Skim the poems in the Reading and tick the correct box(es)for each question. Which poem A B C D E F G H describes a person? tells a story? describes an aspect of a season? is about sport? is about things that don’t make sense? is recited to a baby? describes a river scene? has rhyming words at the end of lines? repeats words or phrases?

Go through the passage quickly and answer the following questions. 1.What is the main topic of the reading passage?

2.How many kinds of poems does the text mention? What are they?

II、While-reading

1. Questions for reading comprehension Forms of poems Characteristics ◆Have strong _________ and rhyme Nursery rhymes ◆Have a lot of __________ ◆Easy to learn and to _________ List poems ◆(Easy / Difficult) to write ◆Repeat ________ and some rhyme while other do not. ◆(Easy / Difficult) to write The cinquain ◆Made up of ___________ ◆Conveys a __________picture in just a few words ◆A (Japanese / Chinese )form of poetry Haiku ◆Made up of ____________ ◆(Easy / Difficult) to write

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◆Gives a _______ picture ◆Creates a special feeling in just (a few/ many) words Tang poems

2. Summary

There are various reasons 1 people write poetry. Some 2 (诗歌)give the reader a strong impression. Others try to 3 （传达）certain emotions. In this text, some simple forms of English poems are introduced. Such 4 nursery rhymes, which may seem 5 (concretely), but they are easy to learn and recite. List poems have a 6 （灵活的） line length and repeated phrases. Students can also write the cinquain, a poem 7 (make) up of five lines. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry with 17 syllables. English speakers also 8 (翻译) Tang poems into English. 9 so many different forms of poetry to choose from, students may 10 (eventual) want to write poems of their own. III. Post-reading

Underline the wonderful sentences.

1．There are various reasons why people write poetry. 2.Some rhyme(like B) while others do not(like C)．

3. Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that will give the reader a strong impression.

4. Others try to convey certain emotions.

5. With so many different forms of poetry to choose from, students may eventually want to write poems of their own.

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◆English speakers enjoy this form of poems, so a lot of Tang poetry has been __________ into English. ◆The translations have a free form.