A few simple forms of English poems

Alan 2012.11.From Gui yang No.6 Senior School

高二人教新课标版选修六

Twinkle twinkle little star, Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle twinkle little star, Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.how I wonder what you are.

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Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poems.

Why do people write poems?People write poems to tell a story. to convey feelings. to make others laugh. to delight kids. to tell the life or friendship. to describe scenes or seasons.

for entertainment. …

five kinds

Nursery rhymes

List poems Haiku Cinquain Tang

poems

童谣 清单诗 俳句诗 五行诗 唐诗

Fast reading: 1. How many forms of poems are mentioned in the passage?

Pair work---Skim the poems in the reading passage & tick the correct box(es) for each question on P. 9 with your partner.

Pay attention: there may not be one answer to some questions

Which poem A B C D E F G Hdescribes a person?

tells a story?

describes an aspect of a season?is about a sport?

is about things that don’t make sense?is recited to a baby?

describes a river scene?

has rhyming words…?

repeats words or phrases

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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, going to buy you another today.

Nursery rhyme( 童谣 )

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Features?What feeling does it convey?

Papa’s

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.

(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。　　　　　　

What is the story that the poem tells? Can you tell the story in your own words?

Poem H: Tang poem

In the Quiet NightA bed, I see a silver light,I wonder if it’s frost aground.Looking up, I find the moon bright;Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned.

Tang Poems

A SPRING MORNINGI 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.

春晓春眠不觉晓 , 处处闻啼鸟。夜来风雨声 , 花落知多少。

Let’s read• Some people laugh and some people

cry,• Some people give up and some people

try,• Some people say bye and some say hi,• Some forget but never I.

Appreciate the rest English poems in the passage and try to find out characteristics of each kind.