人教选修 6 Unit 2Poems Reading

Warming up

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

床前明月光，疑是地上霜。举头望明月，低头思故乡。

静夜思 李白

锄禾日当午，汗滴和下土。谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。

古风 其二 李绅

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。

　

望夫石　　　　王健

Match the following information.

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

BrainstormingDiscuss the reasons why people write poems.

Why?

to create images in the readers

to tell a story

to express feelings

to make others laugh

to play with words

to create a mood

to express a point of view

to encourage people

…

to describe something

Fast reading

Scan the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the main topic of the reading passage?

2.What five kinds of poems does the reading passage talk about?

nursery rhymes, list poems, cinquain, haiku, Tang poems.

different forms of English poems

3.Scan the poems and fill in the following form.

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?

Which poem

A B C D E F G H

Is recited to a baby?

Describes a river scene?

Has rhyming words at the end of lines?

Repeats words or phases?

Careful reading

Read the following five poems and finish tasks.

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.

Listen to Poem A and pay attention to its rhyming lines and words.

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?

2. What is Papa going to buy for the baby if that billy-goat runs away?

3. What is the features of it?

a billy -goat

another billy-goat

It has strong rhythm and rhyme and has a lot of repetition.

Poem COur first football matchWe 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!

1.Did his or her team win the game?

2.Why his or her team didn’t win the game?

3.Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuse? How do you know?

Questions

No, his or her team didn’t win.

The players didn’t win because: Jack didn’t score that goal; they didn’t have enough time; they hadn’t trained hard….

The speaker doesn’t really believe his or her own excuses, because there has too many ifs…

Poem ESummer Sleepy, saltyDrying, 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 DBrother Beautiful, athletic Teasing, shouting, laughing Friend and enemy too Mine

兄弟　爱美，又爱运动爱闹，爱叫，又爱笑　　是我的朋友　 也是我的敌人

Poem D&E

1. What subject is the speaker writing about?

2. Does the speaker like the subject? Give a reason for your answer.

The speaker is writing about his / her brother in Poem D.

In Poem E, the writer is writing about Summer.

Where she awaits her husband,On and on the river flowsNever 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)

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。

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.

Discussion

2.Circle one or more of the feelings below that you think the woman has. Give reasons for your answers:

loneliness joy love trust 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.

Reasons

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

Forms of poems

Features

Nursery rhymes

List poems

Cinquain Haiku

Tang poems

Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to reciteRepeated phrases and some rhyme

Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words.

Made up of 17 syllables; Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words.

The translations have a free form.

Homework1. 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!