1、Warm up Task 1.Ss in pairs talk about Chinese and foreign poems or songs they learned before.Ss try to match the following information.Du Fu Tang Dynasty Fan Zhongyan Song Dynasty Meng Haoran Nowadays Guo Moruo Nowadays Mao Zedong Tang Dynasty Byron America Shelly England Emerson England Tagore Germ
2、any Goethe India Task 2.Ss discuss and answer the following questions.1.Why do people write poems?2.People from different countries write different kinds of poems.Do you have a favourite poem in Chinese?Why is it your favourite poem?Do you have a favourite poem in English?Why is it your favourite po
3、em?Task 3:First reading:Ss skim the poems and fill in the following form.Which poem ABCDEFGHDescribes a person?Tells a story Describes an aspect of a season?Is about sport?Is about things that dont make sense?Which poem ABCDEFGHIs recited to a baby?Describes a river scene?Has rhyming words at the en
4、d of lines?Repeats words or phases?Task 4.Second reading:Ss read and answer the questions of Ex 2 on page 11.Sample answers:1.The main topic of the reading passage:different forms of English poems.2.Nursery rhymes;list poems;cinquain;haiku;Tang poems.3.Poem A has a strong rhythm.Poems A and B have r
5、hyming lines.4.Poem F gives a clear picture in the mind.Task 5.Third reading:Ss read again and fill in the chart.Forms of poems Features Nursery rhymes List poems Cinquain Haiku Tang poems Made up of five lines,convey a strong picture in just a few words Give a clear picture and create a special fee
6、ling in just a few words Strong rhythm and rhyme,a lot of repetition,easy to learn and to recite Repeated phrases and some rhyme Task 6:Ss listen to the recording of the passage and try clapping the beats.Then answer the questions on page 12.Sample answers:1.If the mirror gets broken,the babys fathe
7、r will buy a billy-goat instead.2.If the goat runs away,the babys father will buy another goat.3.The speaker is writing about football.4.No,his or her team didnt win.5.The players didnt win because:Jack didnt score that goal;they didnt have enough time;they hadnt train hard.6.The speaker doesnt real
8、ly believe his or her own excuses,because there has too many ifs7.Yes.I always give excuses when I dont win or do something.No.Ive never given any excuses when I dont win or do something.8.The poem tells a story about a woman who was waiting on the mountain top foe her husband.The story goes like th
9、is:A loyal wife kept standing on a mountain top waiting for her husbands coming back.Year after year the wife became a stone which looks like a woman watching into far distance.9.The woman has the feelings of: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 husbands coming back,she was very sad.
