1. Welcome to
my class

2. Do re mi 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
Sew a needle pulling thread
La a note to follow Sew
Enjoy an English poem in the form of a song:
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

3. Unit 2 If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Shelley--- Ode to the west wind

4. Unit 2 能否把你比作迷人的夏日？ 你却比炎夏更可爱温存； Shakespeare’s Sonnets(十四行诗)
Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
能否把你比作迷人的夏日？
你却比炎夏更可爱温存；
Shakespeare’s Sonnets(十四行诗)

5. Do you remember any poems you learned when you were a child?
Warming Up
Do you remember any poems you learned when you were a child?

7. Before my bed ,there is bright moonlight
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.

8. Can you find something like a poem?
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.

9. A Few Simple Forms of English Poems

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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.

14. I saw a fish-pond all on fire
I saw a house bow to a squire,
I saw a person twelve-feet high,
I saw a cottage in the sky,
I saw a balloon made of lead,
I saw a coffin drop down dead,
I saw two sparrows run a race,
I saw two horses making lace,
I saw a girl just like a cat,
I saw a kitten wear a hat,
I saw a man who saw these too,
And said though strange they all were true
我看见一个鱼塘着火了。
我看见一个房子属于乡绅。
我看见一个人有十二英尺高。
我看见一个村子在天上。
我看见一个气球使用铅做的。
我看见一个死人从棺材里掉出来。
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。
我看见一个人他也看见这些。
虽然说起来很奇怪， 但都是真的。

15. Poem A Poem B Find the words that rhyme: word sing brass broke away
Looking-glass
mockingbird
billy-goat
today
ring
Poem B
fire
high
lead
race
cat
too
squire
sky
dead
lace
hat
true

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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,

19. 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!

20. Task 2 Nine Listen to POEM C and answer the following questions
How many excuses did they make to explain why they didn’t win?
2. Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuses? How do you know?
Nine
No, because at the end of the poem
the speaker admits that they just did not
play well enough to win.

21. Brother Beautiful, athletic Summer Sleepy, salty
Teasing, shouting, laughing
Friend and enemy too
Mine
　　　兄弟
　爱美，又爱运动
爱闹，爱叫，又爱笑
　　是我的朋友
　 也是我的敌人
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping, dreading
Week in, week out.
Endless
　　夏日
　困乏，刺激
干涸，枯萎，恐怖
　周而复始
　永无止境

22. Poem D & E Task 3 1.What subject is the speaker writing about?
Poem D:_________ Poem E:________
2. Do the authors like the subjects?
His or her brother
summer
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.

23. Teasing, shouting ,laughing Friend and enemy too mine
What is cinquain?
Brother
Beautiful ,athletic
Teasing, shouting ,laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine
a name (subject of the poem)
two adjs ( describe the subject）
three verbs ending with –ing (describe actions)
four words (opinions or feelings)
restates(重复) the subject in anther single word
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping, dreading
Week in, week out
Endless

24. A fallen blossom 雪儿融化了, Snow having melted, 作者Issa
is coming back to the branch.
look, a butterfly!
(by Moritake)
落下的花朵
回到了树枝上。
瞧啊，是个蝴蝶！
　　　作者Moritake
雪儿融化了,
整个村庄充满着
欢乐的儿童。
　　作者Issa
Snow having melted,
The whole village is brimful
of happy children
(by Issa)

25. Haiku A fallen blossom Snow having melted,
Line1: 5 syllables
Line2 : 7 syllables
Line3: 5 syllables
A fallen blossom
is coming back to the branch.
look, a butterfly!
(by Moritake)
Haiku
Snow having melted,
The whole village is brimful
of happy children
(by Issa)

26. Task 4 1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Poem F?
A child B. A branch.
C. A butterfly. D. A blossom.
2. What kind of feeling is conveyed in Poem G?
Sorrow B. Love.
C. Happiness. D. Loneliness.

27. Where she awaits her husband, On and on the river flows.
　　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。　　　　　　
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 journey return,
this stone would utter speech.
(by Wang Jian)

28. 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.

29. 2.The woman may have the feelings of :
loneliness:
she was alone watching her husband on the mountain top.
she waited year after year despite wind and rain.
love:
she believed her husband would come back one day.
trust:
year after year, she waited and waited without seeing any hope of her husband coming back, she was very sad.
sorrow:

30. Summing-up
Read the text carefully and find out the characteristics of each form.

31. Forms of Poems
Characteristics
1______
_______
Have strong _________
Have a lot of repetition
Easy to learn and to
_________
rhythm and rhyme
Nursery
rhymes
recite

32. 2_________
Easy to write
Repeat ________
some rhyme while others do
not
3.Cinquain
Made up of ____________
Conveys a _______________
picture in just a few words
phrases
List poems
five lines
strong

33. 4. _______
A Japanese form of poetry
Made up of ___________
Easy to write
Gives a _________ picture
Creates a special feeling in just
a few words
5.Tang Poems
The ___________ have a free form.
17 syllables
Haiku
clear
translations

34. 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 … …

35. A B C D E F G H 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

36. Enjoy poems
Discussion

37. What forms are the following
poems?
Guess
Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. ★ ★
List poems

38. What forms are the following
poems?
Trees
green every spring
bright orange in autumn
bare in winter ★ ★
Haiku

39. 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

40. What forms are the following
poems? ★ ★
Cinquain

41. What forms are the following
poems? ★ ★
Are you sleeping
Are you sleeping,
Brother Bear, Brother bear
Morning bells are ringing
Ding Dang Dong
Nursery
rhyme

42. Homework
Write an English poem as you like.
Thank you very much!