人教课标 高二 选修 6 Unit 2

 Do you remember any little poems or songs you learned when you were a child?  Do you remember any poems you have read in high school, either in Chinese or in English? Can you recite any?

 What are the characteristics of poems? Can you give me some examples? Poems have beats. They may rhyme or may not rhyme — but they have to have rhythms. This beat is not always obvious, but it’s usually there.

Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry. Without rhythm, there wouldn’t be poems. Twinkle twinkle little star How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky. 强 弱 强 弱 强 弱 强

唐诗分五言, 七言。根据韵节来分 英诗可分为单韵诗、双韵诗、三韵 诗 …… 至八韵诗。 构成一个韵节的四种情况 : 强 + 弱, 强 + 弱弱 弱 + 强, 弱 + 强

诗歌 诗人 诗歌（总称） 韵, 压韵的词 (n.) 压韵 (v.) 节奏 (n.) 有节奏的 (adj.) poem poet poetry rhyme rhythm rhythmic

There are many reasons why people write poems. In small groups make a list of these reasons. Why do people write poems? People write poems to tell a story to express feelings to make others laugh

to tell the life or friendship to delight the kids to tell stories to describe the seasons or scenes for entertainment as the lyric of a song

Let’s enjoy an English poem in the form of a song: Do-Re-Me and try to find out the rhymes and the rhythm.

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 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

Scan the text for the two questions. 1.What is the main idea topic of the reading passage? 2.What five kinds of poems does the reading passage talk about? Some simple forms of English poems. Nursery rhymes, list poems, the cinquain, haiku and Tang poems.

Forms of Poems Characteristics _________ Have strong _________ __________ Have a lot of repetition Easy to learn and to _______ Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Nursery rhymes rhythm and rhyme recite

_________ Easy to write Repeat _______ and some rhyme while other do not Cinquain Easy to write Made up of ________ Conveys a _________ picture in just a few words List poems phrases five lines strong

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

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-grass. 2. Read and answer questions.

If that looking-grass 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.

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 poem A about? Use your own words to explain it. Poem A is a nursery thyme that illustrates a father’s love for his baby.

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 a fish-pond all on fire

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.

What is the poem B about? Poem B is an amusing nonsense poem which describes images of some ridiculous things.

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, Our first football match

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!

1. What is the poem C about? 2. Why didn’t the players win the match? 3. Does the author really believe his or her excuses? How do you know? Answer these questions.

Sample answers: Poem C is about losing a football match and the writer lists a lot of excuses for their failure. 1. What is the poem C about?

They didn’t win because they didn’t have enough time; they didn’t have thousands of fans screaming; they stayed up too late the night before; they ran out of energy. 2. Why didn’t the players win the match?

No. The author doesn’t believe his excuses, because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to win … 3. Does the author really believe his or her excuses? How do you know?

Brother Beautiful, athletic Teasing, shouting, laughing Friend and enemy too Mine Summer Sleepy, salty Drying, drooping, dreading Week in, week out Endless

1. What are the poems about? 2. Do the authors like the subjects? Give your reasons. Poem D is a description of a lovely brother. Poem E is a description of hot and boring summer.

Poem D: Yes, the author likes his subject. Although the speaker describes a couple of negative aspects of his / her brother, the reader can feel the affection that the speaker feels for his / her brother.

Poem E: No, the author doesn’t like his subject. The reader gets the feeling that the speaker cannot wait until the summer is over. The words drooping, dreading, week in, week out and endless convey this feeling.

A fallen blossom Is coming back to the branch. Look, a butterfly! Snow having melted. The whole village is brimful Of happy children.

What are the poems about? Poem F describes how a butterfly rests on a tree. Poem G describes that the weather is warmer and the village is full of happy children.

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 journeyer return, this stone would utter speech.

望夫石 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。

1.What is the story that the poem tells? Tell the story in your own words. 2. Circle one or more of the feelings below that you think the woman has. Give reasons for your answers: loneliness joy love trust anger hate sorrow

1. 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 has 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’s coming back, she was very sad.

3. Read the text carefully and choose the best answers. 1. 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.

2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Poem B? A. A fish-pond on fire. B. A cottage in the sky. C. A girl like a cat. D. A person ten-feet high.

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

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. (by Meng Haoran)

The Willow The slender tree is dressed in emerald all about, A thousand branches droop like fringes made of jade. But do you know by whom these slim leaves are cut out? The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade. By Meng Haoran

In the quiet night So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed-- Could there have been a frost already? Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight. Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of my home. By Li Bai

1. Read the text aloud and recite Paragraph Prepare your favorite Tang poem (s) and translate it/them into English.

Sample translation of Tang poems COMING HOME I left home young, I return old. Speaking as then, but with hair grow thin; and my children, meeting me, do not know me. They smile and say: Stranger, where do you come from?

ON THE MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY All alone in a foreign land. I’m twice as homesick on this day, when brothers carry dogwood up the mountain, each of them a branch– and my branch missing.