What’s the function(功能) of the circled words? Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky rhyme 押韵 rhythm 节奏 Rhyme(押韵) and rhythm（节奏） are essential（必要的） to poetry. Without them, there wouldn’t be a poem.

Do you like poetry? Do you know any poet?

Look at these pictures, can you tell the names of these famous poets? 孟浩然 王维 Shelley

李白 杜甫 莎士比亚 艾青 白居易 李清照 毛泽东

Can you recite any poems, either in Chinese or in English?

A Few Simple Forms of English Poems

Pre-reading Forms A Few Simple Forms Of English Poems Look at the title , please predict what the text will mainly talk about. A. ways of writing poems B. forms of English poems C. famous English poems

Skimming 1.How many forms are there in the passage? 2. What are they?

The reading passage discusses _____ forms of poems. What are they? the main topic The reading passage discusses _____ forms of poems. What are they? five 五行诗D,E 童谣A Nursery rhymes Cinquain ____ forms of poems 唐诗H Five Tang poems List poems Haiku 清单诗B,C 俳句诗F,G

Let's appreciate the poems Detailed-reading Let's appreciate the poems

Listen to poem A and answer the following questions Form One Listen to poem A and answer the following questions 1.What kind of poem is poem A? Poem A is a . 2.What kind of feeling does it convey? A father’s love for his baby. 3. Find the words that rhyme（押韵）: nursery rhyme

Find the words that rhyme: Poem A: sing brass broke word away ring billy-goat today mockingbird looking-glass

Features(特点) of nursery rhymes Form( A ) Features 1.nursery rhymes They _______ and have strong ________. rhyme rhythm repetition Have a lot of ________

and they ________ things. 2.What is the characteristic of list poem? Form Two Poems B and C Read Poems B,C and answer the following questions Poems B and C belong to . and they ________ things. 2.What is the characteristic of list poem? A. repeat B. list something one by one C. no repetition D. no listing list poems list

1.What subject 主体 is the author writing about? Poem D & E Form Three 1.What subject 主体 is the author writing about? Poem D:_________ Poem E:________ his or her brother summer cinquain

Features of cinquain 5 lines D & E Brother Beautiful ,athletic Teasing, shouting ,laughing Friend and enemy too Mine Summer Sleepy, salty Drying, drooping, dreading Week in, week out Endless Line 5: 1 word (subject) Line 1: 1 word (subject) 5 lines Line 4: 4 words (feelings) Line 2: 2 adjs (description) Line 3: 3 v-ing forms (description)

Haiku A fallen blossom Snow having melted, 17 syllables Poem F & G Form Four A fallen blossom is coming back to the branch. look, a butterfly! Line1: 5 syllables Line2 : 7 syllables Line3: 5 syllables When you read the poems you can get a clear ___________ in your mind. picture Haiku Snow having melted, The whole village is brimful of happy children. 17 syllables

Q: Choose the words to show the woman’s feelings 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。　　　　　　 Form Five Poem H 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) Q: Choose the words to show the woman’s feelings loneliness joy love trust anger hate sorrow

characteristics 1.For children 2.Strong rhythm and rhyme 3.Easy to learn and to recite 1.Repeated words 2.List things one by one 1.Made up of five lines. 1.Translated from Japan 2.17 syllables 1.Written in Tang dyansty Nursery rhymes List poems Cinquain Haiku Tang poems

Enjoy poems

What forms are the following poems? Guess No matter what they tell us No matter what they do No matter what they teach us What we believe it’s true List poem

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

What forms are the following poems? family familiar, strange firing, boiling, melting filled with unselfish love forever cinquain

What forms are the following poems? How long will the bright moon appear? Wine-cup in hand, I ask the sky. I do not know what time of year, It would be tonight in the palace on high Tang poem

Learn to write a cinquain (Five lines) You Lovely , friendly Thinking, discussing ,answering Students and friends too Mine 1 word (subject) 2 adjectives(description) 3 v-ing forms(description) 4 words (feelings) 1 word (subject)

Why Discussion … Why do people write poems ? express feelings tell a story Why show opinion describe sb/ sth … for fun encourage people

Assignment 1.Find more poems to share. 2.Try to write any other form of poems.

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? 冬天来了，春天还会远吗？ ---Shelley Ode to the west wind (西风颂)