Welcome to
my class
Doe a deer a female deer
Ray a drop of golden sun
Me a name I call myself
Far a long long way to run
Enjoy an
English poem
in the form of
a song:
Sew a needle pulling thread
La a note to follow Sew
Do re mi
Tea a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Doe oh-oh-oh
That will bring us back to Doe
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti Do-So-Do
Unit 2 Poems
If winter comes,
can spring be far behind?
Shelley--- Ode to the west wind
Unit 2
Poems
Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?
能否把你比作迷人的夏日？
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
你却比炎夏更可爱温存；
Shakespeare’s
Sonnets(十四行诗)
Warming Up
Do you remember any poems you
learned when you were a child?
Before my bed ,there is
bright moonlight.
So it seems like frost on
the ground.
Lifting my head， I saw
the bright moon .
Lowering my head, I
dream that I’m at home.
Pre-reading
Can you find something like a poem?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry.
Without them, there wouldn’t be poems.
Fast-reading
The reading passage discusses five
forms of poems. What are they?
Nursery rhymes
Cinquain
Five forms of poems
Tang poems
List poems
Haiku
careful-reading
Task1
1. Poems A and B have a strong rhythm.
Listen and try to clap the beat.
2.Listen to the tape and find the words
that rhyme in Poems A and B
3.Answer some related questions.
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’s going to buy you another today.
I saw a fish-pond all on fire
I saw a fish-pond all on fire,
我看见一个鱼塘着火了。
I saw a house bow to a squire,
我看见一个房子属于乡绅。
I saw a person twelve-feet high,
我看见一个人有十二英尺高。
我看见一个村子在天上。
I saw a cottage in the sky,
我看见一个气球使用铅做的。
I saw a balloon made of lead,
我看见一个死人从棺材里掉出来。
I saw a coffin drop down dead,
I saw two sparrows run a race,
I saw two horses making lace,
我看见两只麻雀在赛跑。
我看见两匹马在做袋子。
我看见一个女孩长得像猫。
我看见一只猫戴着帽子。
I saw a girl just like a cat,
我看见一个人他也看见这些。
I saw a kitten wear a hat,
I saw a man who saw these too, 虽然说起来很奇怪， 但都是真的。
And said though strange they all were true
Poem A
Find the words that rhyme:
word
sing
brass
mockingbird
Poem B
broke
Looking-glass
billy-goat
ring
fire
high
lead
squire
sky
dead
race
lace
away
today
cat
too
hat
true
1. What is the baby’s father going to
buy if the mirror gets broken?
If the mirror gets broken, the baby’s
father will buy a billy-goat instead.
2. What is the baby’s father going to do
if the goat runs away?
He’s going to buy the baby another
billy-goat.
3. What is the baby’s father going to buy
if the mockingbird won’t sing in Poem A?
A. A billy-goat.
B. A diamond ring.
C. A looking-glass.
D. A computer.
4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned
in Poem B?
A fish-pond on fire.
B A cottage in the sky.
C. A girl like a cat.
D. A person ten-feet high.
Our first football match
We should have won…
If Jack had 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 take it easy,
If we hadn’t run out of energy.
We should have won…
If we’d been better!
Task 2
Listen to POEM C and answer the following questions
1. How many excuses did they make to explain
why they didn’t win?
Nine
2. Does the speaker really believe his or her own
excuses? How do you know?
No, because at the end of the poem
the speaker admits that they just did not
play well enough to win.
Brother
兄弟
爱美，又爱运动
Beautiful, athletic
爱闹，爱叫，又爱笑
Teasing, shouting,
laughing
是我的朋友
Friend and enemy too
Mine
夏日
困乏，刺激
干涸，枯萎，恐怖
周而复始
永无止境
也是我的敌人
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping,
dreading
Week in, week out.
Endless
Task 3
Poem D & E
1.What subject is the speaker writing about?
His or her brother Poem E:________
summer
Poem D:_________
2. Do the authors like the subjects?
Poem D: Yes. Although the speaker describes a couple
of negative aspects of his/her brother( teasing ,enemy)
We can feel the affection that the speaker feels for his /
her brother
Poem E: No. The reader gets the feeling that the
speaker cannot wait until the summer is over.
What is cinquain?
a name (subject of the poem)
Brother
Beautiful ,athletic two adjs ( describe the subject）
verbs ending with –
Teasing, shouting ,laughing three
ing (describe actions)
Friend and enemy too four words (opinions or feelings)
mine restates(重复) the subject in
anther single word
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping, dreading
Week in, week out
Endless
A fallen blossom
is coming back to the branch.
look, a butterfly!
(by Moritake)
雪儿融化了,
整个村庄充满着
欢乐的儿童。
落下的花朵
回到了树枝上。
瞧啊，是个蝴蝶！
作者Moritake
Snow having melted,
The whole village is brimful
of happy children
作者Issa
(by Issa)
Line1: 5 syllables
A fallen blossom
is coming back to the branch.Line2 : 7 syllables
look, a butterfly!
Line3: 5 syllables
(by Moritake)
Snow having melted,
The whole village is brimful
of happy children
(by Issa)
Task 4
1. Which of the following is NOT
mentioned in Poem F?
A. A child.
B. A branch.
C. A butterfly.
D. A blossom.
2. What kind of feeling is conveyed in
Poem G?
A. Sorrow.
B. Love.
C. Happiness.
D. Loneliness.
望夫石
Where she awaits her husband,
王健
On and on the river flows.
望夫处，江悠悠。
Never looking back,
化为石，不回头。
山头日日风复雨，
Transformed into stone.
行人归来石应语。
Day by day upon the mountain top,
wind and rain revolve.
Should the journey return,
this stone would utter speech.
(by Wang Jian)
Task 5 Discussion
1.What is the story that poem H tells?
A woman’s husband has
gone away. The woman
waits for him by the river
where she last saw him.
she waits and waits
never moving from that
spot and never speaking,
while the river continues
to flow and the wind and
rain come and go.
2.The woman may have 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 husband
coming back, she was very sad.
Summing-up
Read the text carefully and find
out the characteristics of each
form.
Forms of
Poems
1______
Nursery
_______
rhymes
Characteristics
Have strong _________
rhythm
and rhyme
_______
Have a lot of repetition
Easy to learn and to
recite
_________
Easy to write
Repeat ________
phrases
2_________
List poems
some rhyme while others do
not
Easy to write
Made up of ____________
five lines
3.Cinquain
Conveys a _______________
strong
picture in just a few words
A Japanese form of poetry
Made up of ___________
17 syllables
4.
Easy to write
Haiku Gives a _________
clear picture
_______
Creates a special feeling in just
a few words
5.Tang
Poems
translations have a free
The ___________
form.
Post-reading
Why do people write poems?
People write poems
to tell a story
to describe something
to convey certain emotions
to express feelings
to tell the life or friendship
to delight the kids
to make others laugh
to describe the seasons or scenes
……
Which poem
describes a person
tells a story
describes an aspect
of a season
is about sports
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
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Discussion
What forms are the following
poems?
Life
Life
Life
Life
Life
Life
Life
Life
is beauty, admire it.
is bliss, taste it.
is a dream, realize it.
is a challenge, meet it.
is a duty, complete it.
is a game, play it.
is a promise, fulfill it.
is sorrow, overcome it.
★★
List poems
What forms are the following
poems?
Trees
★★
green every spring
bright orange in autumn
bare in winter
Haiku
What forms are the following
poems?
A SPRING MORNING
★★
I 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.
Tang Poem
What forms are the following
poems?
★★
Cinquain
What forms are the following
poems?
★★
Are you sleeping
Are you sleeping
Are you sleeping,
Brother Bear, Brother bear
Morning bells are ringing
Morning bells are ringing
Ding Dang Dong
Ding Dang Dong
Nursery
rhyme
Homework
Write an English poem as you like.