Unit 2 Poems
Warming up and reading
Step 3: Lead-in
1. Are you familiar with the song?
2. What’s the Chinese name for the song?
3. Listen again & try to write down the
English lines?
find out something special at the end of the lines
---
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
rhyme (押韵)
How I wonder what you are.
--
---
Up above the world so high,
--
Like a diamond in the sky.
---
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Many poems can be sung, such as …
Welcome to the
Garden of poems !
Unit 2 Poems
Brainstorming
Discuss the reasons why people write poems.
to create a to encourage
mood people to tell a story
to make
others laugh
Why? to express
to express a feelings
point of view
to describe
to create images something
in the readers
to play with words …
静夜思
床前明月光，疑是地上霜；
举头望明月，低头思故乡。
Looking up, I find the moon bright,
Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned
Who is the poet?
Let’s learn
A few simple forms of English poems
Step 4:Reading
Task1 Fast reading
How many kinds of poems did the text mention?
What are they?
1.Nursery rhymes 3.Cinquain
Five kinds of poems
2.List poems 5.Tang poems
4.Haiku
Read and listen to the poems in the passage.
1.Nursery rhymes 2.List poems
5.Tang poems
4.Haiku
3.Cinquain
Poetry is a great form of literature. There are
different kinds of rules for poems, so the forms of
poems are quite different from country to country.
The passage in Reading will tell us something
about forms of English poems. Now read the text
on P 10 and find out information to complete the
following form.
forms of poem characteristics
Nursery strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of
repetition, easy to learn and to recite
rhymes
List poems repeated phrases and some rhyme
Cinquain made up of five lines, convey a
strong picture in just a few words
Haiku made up of 17 syllables , give a
clear picture and create a special
feeling in just a few words.
Tang Poems
have a free form
Task2: pair work
As we know, poems are mostly written
to show people’s emotions.. In Chinese ,
we have 诗言志，诗言情，诗歌合为事而作.
That is, people write poems for different
reasons, then we have different kind of
poems. Next go over quickly the poems in
the reading part. And then tick the correct
box/boxes for each question on P9
Which poem A B C D E F G H
describes 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 √ √ √
Task 3: Careful reading
Answer questions of each poem
and understand these poems in
details.
Task 3: Careful reading
Poem A
Hush, little baby, don’t say a word,
Papa’s going to buy you a mockingbird.
If that mockingbird won’t father
Poem A: What is the baby’s sing, going to
Papa’s going gets you a diamond ring.
buy if the mirrorto buybroken?
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.
We would have won… Our first football match
If Jack had scored that goal,
If we’d What sports more minutes,
Poem C:had just a few do you think the speaker is
writing about? Did his or her team win the game?
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 would have won… Poem C
If we’d been better!
Where she awaits her husband, 望夫石 ---王健
望夫处，江悠悠。
On and on the river flows
化为石，不回头。
Never looking back,
山头日日风复雨，
Transformed into stone.
行人归来石应语。
mountain top,
Day by day upon thetell us the woman’s story
Poem H: Could you
in your own words?
wind and rain revolve.
Q: Choose the words return,
Should the travellerto show the woman’s feelings
loneliness joy love trust anger hate sorrow
this stone would utter speech.
Poem H (by Wang Jian)
Poem D Brother 兄弟
Beautiful, athletic
Q: What’re Poems D & E about? Does the
爱美，又爱运动
authors like the subjects? 爱闹，爱叫，又爱笑
Teasing, shouting, laughing
Friend and enemy too 是我的朋友
也是我的敌人
Mine
Summer
夏日 Poem E
Sleepy, salty
困乏，刺激
干涸，枯萎，恐怖
Drying, drooping, dreading
周而复始 Week in, week out.
永无止境 Endless
Step5: Practice
Could you try to write some poems
or just some lines for some reason
Is it difficult for you ?
Enjoy a poem regarded as the shortest poem
in the history of English literature.
Ode (赞歌 )to a Goldfish
O
Wet
Pet!
A Student's Prayer
Now I lie down to_____
rest
I pray I pass tomorrow's______
test
remember:
best
Good, better,______!
Never have it rest!
better
Till good is_______,
best
And better,_______!
group work:
It’s your time to create your own
poems or just some poem lines!
1. To My _____, Thank you
You were always there
To _______me
……
……
But most important
You were always there
To _______me
1. To My Parents, Thank you
You were always there
To _______me help
You were always there
To _______me guide
You were always there
To _______me laugh with
…… cry with
But most important
You were always there
To _______me love
James J. Metcalf
I want to teach my students how to live this life on earth,
我想教会学生如何去生活，
To face its struggle and its strife(冲突) and improve their worth.
如何面对困难，完善自我。
Not just the lesson in a book or how the rivers flow,
不只是书本知识或是自然奥秘，
But how to choose the proper path wherever they may go.
而是如何走好人生之旅。
To understand eternal truth and know the right from wrong,
学会去辨别是非，找寻真理，
and gather all the beauty of a flower and a song.
从平凡的点滴中发掘美的韵律。
For if I help the world to grow in wisdom and in grace ,
如果我的存在使这个世界更加绚丽，
Then, I shall feel that I have won and I have filled my place.
那么我也就实现了自己的人生目的
And so I ask my guidance, God, that I may do my part,
所以苍天作证，我已全心全意，
For character and confidence and happiness of heart.
诠释了品格、信心和幸福的真谛。
Homework:
1. Choose two of the eight poems to recite.
2. Translate an English poem into Chinese
by yourself.