poem
poet
poetry
intention
recite mad
pattern dialogue
sort
fantasy
loneliness sadness
grammar glory
absence district
atmosphere introduction translate
tale
shade
extraordinary
idiom
dust
crow
apart
essay
recommend
contribute
district
put …together play with
call up
light up
come into being
send for
contribute to
stand out
limerick
hemlock
sonnet
mood
isle
rue
embrace
insane
Peru
Singapore
Robert Frost
George Gorden Byron
John Keats
John Donne
John Milton
Alexander Pope
the Lake District
William Wordsworth
Richard Marx
call up
belong to
come into being
contribute to
lonely translate
extraordinary
collection
1. Night Thoughts by Li Bai is one of his most
famous poems. It’s about the ___________ of
someone who is far away from home.
2. Do you have any idea when this word _____?
3. There are 120 sonnets in the ___________.
4. Many people think that great poets, such as
Shakespeare, ____ the world instead of one country.
call up belong to come into being
contribute to
lonely translate
extraordinary
collection
5. More and more people are now trying to help
those who are suffering from AIDs. Some are
offering medical help. Others ___ money ___ them.
6. The old man went to the war museum. The
exhibitions _____ his terrible memories of the war.
7. It was _____ hot last summer here. For over
40 days the highest temperature was over 35 ℃.
8. It’s difficult _____ one language into another.
A large lady from Corfu,
Wished to travel to Peru.
But Whether buses or trains
Or boarding aeroplanes,
There wasn’t a door she’d get through.
A teacher from Singapore.
Taught at middle school No 4.
It didn’t take students long
To see something was wrong:
The man was as mad as a door!
sad
interesting
good
funny
Poem
&
poetry
dull
etc
meaningful
moving
encouraging
If you want to borrow these books, where
should you go?
Listen to the dialogue happening in the library
and finish the exercise.
Listen to the tape and tick the words
that are used by the woman working in
the library.
(√ )poem
(√ )collection
(√ )the World Wars
( √ )The countryside
( )The moon
(√ )the sea
( √ )nature
( )animals
(√ )gardens
( )paintings
2.Listen t the tape again and answer the
following question.
1.What is the dialogue about?
The dialogue is about a student who is
looking for some poems to read.
2.What kind of book is A Garden of Paint?
It’s a collection of poems
3.Which period is meant when we say
“between the World Wars”?
From 1914 to 1918
4.How should you read a book such as 1001
Songs and Poems in English?
You should not read all the poems but go
through them and only read those which
you like from looking at the title, the topic
or the first or last line.
5.Which topic for poetry does the student like?
She likes reading about nature.
3.Listen to the tape and fill in the chart below.
In collection of poetry , poems are put
together because they belong to the same
group. Which types of collections and
examples are mentioned in the listening
text?
Sorted by:
Names
Sorted by:
Period of time
Sorted by:
Topic
A Garden of English Poems
Poems
of the Early The Earth is
1001 Songs 17th Century
painted Green
and Poems
Poetry between
in English
the World
Wars
1.Listen to the tape and answer the following
question.
1.What is the listening text about ?
The use of poetry as a help to remember things
2.Why did our ancestors invent poetry?
To help them remember their history and
practical things.
3.Why do we no longer need poetry to
remember our history?
Because we can write things down/Because
writing was invented.
4.Who sometimes still uses poetry to
remember things today?
Students/We/People of today do
2.Complete the following short rhymes and\
explain what they are for.
sailed
1.In fourteen-ninety-two, Columbus_________
blue
_________
_________
ocean _________.This
the
rhyme is useful to ______________________
remember the year
Columbus discovered America
_______________________.
September
April
has
2.30 days _______
________,_________,
June
November All the rest
__________,and__________.
have
31
___________
____________.Fine!
_________
February
28
except
___________
____________when
29.
e
I
3._________
before _________
except after
c
___________,
or when sounding like ________
a
weigh
as in ___________
rhyme
neighbour and _________.This
is useful to _____________________________
remember when to write ei and
___________________.
when to write ie
Song Dynasty
Romantic 18th Century Classical
Modern
Fantasy The sea
Drinking wine
World War Ⅰ
Friendship Pets
The countryside
Peace Nature
Love Death
Happiness
Loneliness
Sadness Humour
Broken hearts
Du Fu Li Bai
George Gordon
Byron
Women poets
Robert Frost
John Keat
Shakespeare
Japanese
African
American
John Keats：
British poet considered among the
greatest in English. His works,
melodic and rich in classical imagery,
include “The Eve of St. Agnes,” “Ode
on a Grecian Urn,” and “To Autumn”
(all 1819).
济慈：
(1795-1821) 英国最伟大的诗人之一，
他的作品音调优美，古典意象丰富，
包括《圣爱格妮斯之前夜》、 《希腊
古瓮》和《秋颂》（均写于1819年）。
George Gordon Byron：
British poet acclaimed(称赞)as one of
the leading figures of the romantic
movement. The “Byronic hero”—lonely,
rebellious, and brooding—first
appeared in Manfred (1817). Among
his other works are “Childe Harold”
(1812-1818), “The Prisoner of Chillon”
(1816), and the epic satire “Don Juan”
(1819-1824). Byron was notorious for his
love affairs and unconventional lifestyle.
He died while working to secure Greek
independence from the Turks.
拜伦·乔治·戈登：
(1788-1824) 英国诗人，被公认为是浪
漫主义运动的先驱。那象征着孤独、反
抗和沉思的“拜伦式英雄”的形象最早
出现在曼弗雷德(1817年)里。他的其它
著作有《查尔德·哈洛尔德游记》(1812
-1818年)、《希永的囚徒》(1816年）
以及讽刺长诗《唐璜》（1819-1824
年）。由于他的恋爱经历和反传统的
生活方式，拜伦在当时是名誉扫地的。
他死于为希腊脱离土耳其而独立所做
的工作中。
Shakespeare：
English playwright and poet whose body
of works is considered as the greatest in
English literature. His plays, many of
which were performed at the Globe
Theatre in London, including historical
works, such as Richard II, comedies,
including Much Ado about Nothing and
As You Like It, and tragedies, such as
Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. He also
composed 154 sonnets. The earliest
collected edition of his plays, the First
Folio, contained 36 plays and was
published posthumously (1623).
莎士比亚·威廉：
(1564-1616) 英国戏剧家和诗人，他的
作品被认为是英语文学作品中最伟大的
戏剧，其中大多在伦敦的全球戏院演出
过，包括历史作品，例如《理查德二
世》；喜剧包括《无事生非》和《皆大
欢喜》；悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、
《奥赛罗》和《李尔王》。他还作过
154首十四行诗。他最早的戏剧集子，
第一对开本，包含了36个戏剧，并在他
死后出版(1623年）。
Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day?
Thou art more lovely and more
temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling
buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too
short a date:
thee: you thou: you
art: are hath: has
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven
shines,
And often is his gold complexion
dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime
declines,
By chance, or nature's changing
course untrimmed:
sometime:
complexion:
fair:
sometimes
face
beauty
But thy eternal summer shall not
fade, thy:your eternal: ever-lasting
Nor lose possession of that fair thou
ow'st,
ow’st: own
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st
in his shade, wand’rest:wander, walk about
When in eternal lines to time thou
grow'st, grow’st: grow
So long as men can breathe, or eyes
can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life
能否把你比作夏日璀璨？
你却比炎夏更可爱温存；
狂风摧残五月花蕊娇妍，
夏天匆匆离去毫不停顿。
苍天明眸有时过于灼热，
金色脸容往往蒙上阴翳；
一切优美形象不免褪色，
偶然摧折或自然地老去。
能否把你
比作夏日璀璨
而你如仲夏繁茂不凋谢，
秀雅风姿将永远翩翩；
死神无法逼你气息奄奄，
你将永生于不朽诗篇。
只要人能呼吸眼不盲，
这诗和你将千秋流芳。
孙梁译
1.intention n. 意图; 目的; 打算
~ of doing/+ to do
She went to Paris with the intention of
learning French.
The president showed his intention to retire.
2.get through
You would wonder how such a large animal
could get through such a small hole.
All of us have got through the exam.
I couldn’t get through to Beijing.
I will be with you as soon as I get
through the work.
He has got through $1000 in less
than five days.
3. put …together 把…结合成一整体;装配
She tried to put her thoughts together.
He put the pieces of wood together
4. sort vt. 将…分类;整理 ~ out
We must sort (out) the good apples from
the bad.
n.种类；类型
What sort of sports do you like best?
1.Read the text carefully and finish
the post-reading exercises.
2.Sum up the main ideas of each
paragraph.
3. How many English poets
does it introduce in the text?
Read the text carefully and choose the best
answer.
1.Modern English came into being from about
the end of the ___
A century.
A. 16th
B. 17th C. 18th D.19th
2. The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese
C
of the poems by ____.
D. Guo Moruo
A. Du Fu B. Li Bai C. Su Dongpo
3. Byron's Isles of Greece (1824) is an
B
example of ___.
A. a sonnet
B. romantic poetry
C. nature poetry
D. modern poetry
4. The wider public in China discovered
D
English poetry at the beginning of the __
century.
A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th
5. The advantage of reading English poetry in
Chinese translation is ___.
C
A. that you have more choice
B. that something of the spirit is lost
C. that you understand it better
D. that you learn how to express yourself
in new ways
para. 1
Why we read poetry.
para. 2
Chinese poetry and poets
para.3
para.4
para.5
para. 6
para. 7
The introduction of English poetry to
China
More and more people are interested in
reading modern poetry in English.
Development
English poetry in the
of
English
19 century
poetry
modern
English poets
the earliest English poetry
th
Para.1
Why?
Why does poetry play with sounds?
A.To make poetry difficult to
write
B.To make poetry interesting to
read
C.To call up all the colours and
feelings
D.To create curious images of a
dream world
Para. 2 Chinese poets and poetry
Du Fu
(712-770 )
Wang Wei
Li bai (701-762)
Who?
How?
What do fine poems share?
(701-761)
A.Their poems stand for the
features that all good Chinese
poetry shares.
B.No other poems have ever been
hung on the halls except theirs.
C.Their poems influenced the
patterns of Chinese poems.
D.Though there are many wonderful
poems, theirs are among the best.
Para.3 Early English poem
Difficult to understand
feature
Shakespeare
Donne
Famous for his plays and
sonnets
Famous for the use
of surprising
images
John Millton
Pop
The absence of
rhyme at the
end of sentence
Writing the best
poetry in England in
the 18th century
Para. 4 The 19th century
English poets
John Keats
Wordsworth
Byron
Romantic/long
poems
Para. 5 Modern poets
Robert Frost
Stand close to
us both in the
language and
images they use
Para. 7
More and more
people are interested
to read modern
poetry in English
Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again
Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here;
Quietly I wave good-bye
To the rosy clouds in the western sky.
The golden willows by the riverside
Are young brides in the setting sun;
Their reflections on the shimmering waves
Always linger in the depth of my heart.
To seek a dream? Just to pole a boat upstream
To where the green grass is more verdant;
Or to have the boat fully loaded with starlight
And sing aloud in the splendor of starlight.
But I cannot sing aloud
Quietness is my farewell music;
Even summer insects heap silence for me
Silent is Cambridge tonight!
Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here;
Gently I flick my sleeves
Not even a wisp of cloud will I bring away
How do you like the poem? Why?
③
1600
②
1700
④
1800
1900
2000
⑦
⑤
⑥
⑧
①
① William Shakespeare
② John Donne
③ John Milton
④ Alexander Pope
⑤ George Gordon Byron
⑥ John Keats
⑦ William Wordsworth
⑧ Robert Frost
1. play with 玩,与……逗玩，玩弄
The boy is playing with a toy plane.
It’s dangerous to play with fire.
Don’t play with him. He is in a bad mood.
2.call up
I’ll call you up tomorrow.
This song called up memories of my
childhood.
The picture called up memories of our class
trip.
He was called up in 1993.
In most countries men are called up at the
age of eighteen.
He called up all the information from the
computer and formed a report on that subject.
3. stand out 突出，显眼，远远超过
His red hair made him stand out in the crowd.
The road sign is easy to read: the words
stand out well.
Her work stands out from the rest as the best.
4.most adv very
He is a most smart boy.
The book is most interesting.
Whatever happens ,I shall most certainly
attend the meeting.
5. absence n. 不在，缺席，缺乏
I will take your place in your absence.
The sailor returned after an absence of two years.
Darkness is the absence of light.
adj. absent
She was absent from the meeting because
of illness.
6. atmosphere n. 气氛，情绪，大气
The atmosphere changed as soon as she
walked in.
The atmosphere over dinner was warm
and friendly.
7. introduction
It’s time to make introductions.
Mary was shy at her introduction to the
company
introduce vt introduce sb to sb
introduce sth into sp
8.translate vt. 翻译
Can someone translate this poem into plain
English for me?
n. translation
translator
make / do a translation
9.no matter how/what/when/who/where…
引导让步状语从句,相当于however/whatever
/whenever/whoever/wherever…
No matter how interesting the book is, I have
no time to read it.
No matter how hard it is raining, I will go
to the party.
10. embrace
拥抱 vt&n
They embraced each other warmly.
He held her in a warm embrace.
11. light up 照亮，使放光彩，点上（烟）吸起来
The fire lit up her face.
Light up a pipe
The child was so happy that his face lit
up with pleasure.
12. come into being 出现，形成，产生
The Republican Party came into being in 1854.
No one knows when such a custom first
came into being.
13.send for 派人去请(取)
He sent for sb. to repair the TV.
I will send for a taxi.
He sent the waiter for a packet of cigarettes.
1. How does the writer feel when he is
listening to music and to the song words?
2.What kind of feeling has he when the
writer locks the door and reads poems
aloud?
3.What song words does the writer like?
4. Does the writer like long poems?
5.what does the writer read when he has
had a bad day at school?
6.what’s the main idea of the passage?
1.feel good ;feel well
2.shade 色彩的浓淡深浅,暗部，荫，阴凉处
the shades of night
He is sitting in the shade of a tree.
3.fall into
4. apart
adv. 相隔，除去，单独地
The two houses stood 500 metres apart.
You never see them apart these days
apart from 除了
Apart from his nose he’s quite good-looking.
Apart from them I had no one to talk to.