2. 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.

3. Do you like poetry?
Do you know any poet?

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

5. 李白 杜甫
莎士比亚 艾青
白居易
李清照
毛泽东

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

7. A Few Simple Forms of English Poems

8. 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

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

10. 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

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

12. 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

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

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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)

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Enjoy poems

22. 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

23. 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

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

25. 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

26. 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)

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

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

29. 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)