人教选修 6 Unit 2 Poems Reading Warming

人教选修 6 Unit 2 Poems Reading

Warming up Which poems and poets can you think of when seeing the following pictures?

静夜思李白床前明月光，疑是地上霜。举头望明月，低头思故乡。

古风其二李绅锄禾日当午，汗滴和下土。谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。

望夫石　　　　王健望夫处，江悠悠。化为石，不回头。山头日日风复雨，行人归来石应语。　

Match the following information. Li Bai Du Fu Fan Zhongyan Meng Haoran Guo Moruo Mao Zedong Byron Shelly Emerson Tagore Goethe Song Dynasty Tang Dynasty Modern Tang Dynasty America England Germany India

Brainstorming Discuss the reasons why people write poems. to create a to encourage people mood to tell a story to make others laugh to express Why? to express a feelings point of view to describe to create images something in the readers to play with words …

Fast reading Scan the passage and answer the following questions. 1. What is the main topic of the reading passage? different forms of English poems 2. What five kinds of poems does the reading passage talk about? nursery rhymes, list poems, cinquain, haiku, Tang poems.

3. Scan the poems and fill in the following form. Which poem A Describes a person? Tells a story Describes an aspect of a season? Is about sport? Is about things that don’t make sense? B C D E F G H

Which poem A Is recited to a baby? Describes a river scene? Has rhyming words at the end of lines? Repeats words or phases? B C D E F G H

Careful reading Read the following five poems and finish tasks.

Listen to Poem A and pay attention to its rhyming lines and words. Hush, little baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s going to buy you a mockingbird. If that mockingbird won’t sing, Papa’s going to buy you a diamond ring. If that diamond ring turns to brass, Papa’s going to buy you a looking glass. If that looking-glass gets broke, Papa’s going to buy you a billy-goat. If that billy-goat runs away, Papa is going to buy you another day.

Read the poem by yourself again and answer the following questions. 1. What’s the baby’s father going to buy if the looking-glass gets broken? a billy -goat 2. What is Papa going to buy for the baby if that billy-goat runs away? another billy-goat 3. What is the features of it? It has strong rhythm and rhyme and has a lot of repetition.

Poem C Our first football match We would have won… if Jack had just scored that goal, if we’d had just a few more minutes, if we had trained harder, if Ben had passed the ball to Joe, if we’d had thousands of fans screaming, if I hadn’t taken my eye off the ball, if we hadn’t stayed up so late the night before, if we hadn’t taken it easy, if we hadn’t run out of energy, We would have won… if we’ve been better!

Questions 1. Did his or her team win the game? No, his or her team didn’t win. 2. Why his or her team didn’t win the game? The players didn’t win because: Jack didn’t score that goal; they didn’t have enough time; they hadn’t trained hard…. 3. Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuse? How do you know? The speaker doesn’t really believe his or her own excuses, because there has too many ifs…

Poem D 兄弟　爱美，又爱运动 Brother 爱闹，爱叫，又爱笑 Beautiful, athletic Teasing, shouting, laughing 　　是我的朋友　也是我的敌人 Friend and enemy too Mine Poem E Summer Sleepy, salty Drying, drooping, dreading Week in, week out. Endless 夏日　困乏，刺激干涸，枯萎，恐怖　周而复始　永无止境

Poem D&E 1. What subject is the speaker writing about? The speaker is writing about his / her brother in Poem D. In Poem E, the writer is writing about Summer. 2. Does the speaker like the subject? Give a reason for your answer.

望夫石　　　　王健望夫处，江悠悠。化为石，不回头。山头日日风复雨，行人归来石应语。 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 journey return, this stone would utter speech. (by Wang Jian)

Discussion 1. What is the story that the poem tells? Tell the story in your own words. 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. Circle one or more of the feelings below that you think the woman has. Give reasons for your answers: loneliness anger joy hate love sorrow trust

Reasons 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.

Summary After enjoying these five types of poem, can you tell me the names of these five types? And how about their features?

Forms of Features poems Nursery Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of rhymes repetition, easy to learn and to recite List Repeated phrases and some rhyme poems Cinquain Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in 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.

Homework 1. Review the text and pay attention to some key words, phrases, and sentences. 2. Recite more English poems. 3. Surf the internet to appreciate more English poems.

See you next time!