1. Unit 2 Poems
Warming up
& Reading

2. 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

3. Do you remember any little poems or nursery rhymes you learned when you were a child?

4. Poems recitation

5. 松糕松糕高又高， 　　我请阿叔吃松糕。 　　松糕厚，送娘舅， 　　松糕薄，没棱角， 　　松糕实，迎大佛， 　　松糕松，送舅公， 　　松糕烫，勿好藏， 　　松糕冷，勿好打， 　　松糕烂，送阿大， 　　松糕燥，拜锅灶， 　　松糕粉，送阿婶， 　　松糕末，务好端， 　　阿叔越吃越口渴。

6. I search and search again; I feel so sad , so drear,
I seek but seek in vain,
I search and search again;
I feel so sad , so drear,
so lonely, without cheer.
寻寻觅觅,
冷冷清清,
凄凄惨惨戚戚。
李清照---《声声慢》
If winter comes,
can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
--- Ode to the west wind
冬天来了,
春天还会远吗?
雪莱--- 《西风颂》

7. Can you find the rhyme in this nursery rhyme?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Rhyme like a poem!

8. Which words rhyme? smile mad base tale afraid glory story recite
plough
fail
glad
night
mad
tale
glory
recite
cow
shade
isle
embrace

9. Twinkle twinkle little star How I wonder what you are,
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
basic rhythms: 强+弱, 强+弱弱, 强+强,
弱弱+强, 弱+强,

10. Why do people write poems?
to tell a story
to express feelings
to recall an enjoyable or unpleasant incident
to tell the life or friendship
to describe the seasons or scenes
to create a mood
to play with words
for entertainment
to convey certain emotions …

11. death
sadness
love
happiness
emotions
anger
broken heart
homesick

12. A Few Simple Forms of English Poems
Reading
A Few Simple Forms of English Poems

13. 童谣 清单诗 俳句诗 五行诗 唐诗 Fast reading
1. How many kinds of poems did the text mention?
What are they?
童谣 清单诗 俳句诗 五行诗 唐诗

14. What kinds of poem are mentioned? What are their characteristics?
Forms of Poems
Characteristics
Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to recite
Nursery Rhymes
List Poems
Repeated phrases and some rhyme
Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words.
Cinquain
Made up of 17 syllables; Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words.
Haiku
Tang Poems
Free form

15. Listen to Poem A and choose the best answer:
Careful reading
Listen to Poem A and choose the best answer:
1. What’s the baby’s father going to buy if the mirror gets broken?
A. a mocking bird B. a diamond ring
C. looking glass D. a billy-goat
2. What is Papa going to buy for the baby if that billy-goat runs away?
A. a looking glass B. today
C. another billy-goat D. nothing

16. Poem A has rhyming lines. Its rhyming words are :
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 is going to buy you another today.

17. 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.
Poem B
I saw a fish-pond all on fire

18. Read Poem B again and try to translate the poem.
我看到鱼塘在燃烧,
我看到房子在向地主哈腰，
我看到人高一丈八,
我看到茅屋在天郊，
我看到气球用铝做，
我看到棺材把死人抛。
我看到两只麻雀在赛跑，
我看到两匹马儿绣花包，
我看到姑娘像花猫，
我看到小猫戴小帽，
我看到有人在一旁瞄，
虽奇怪，但也把实情报。

19. Listen to Poem C and answer the following questions :
1. What sports do you think the speaker is
writing about?
2. Did his or her team win the game?
3. How many excuses did they make to explain
why they didn’t win?
4. Does the speaker really believe his or her own
excuse? How do you know?
Football No
Nine
No, because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to win.

20. Poem D & E 1.What subject is the author writing about?
Poem E:________
2. Does the author like the subject?
His or her brother
Summer
Poem D: Yes, although the speaker describes a
couple of negative aspects of his /her brother
(teasing,enemy), the reader can feel the affection
that the speaker feels for his / her brother.
Poem E: No, the reader gets the feeling that the
author cannot wait until the summer is over. The
words drooping, dreading, week in, week out and
endless convey this feeling.

21. The characteristics of a cinquain
Brother
Beautiful, athletic
Teasing, shouting, laughing
Friend and enemy too
Mine
------a noun
adjectives
verbs
words
------one word

22. 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
Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words

23. A fallen blossom
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
Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words

24. We have enjoyed so many English poems
We have enjoyed so many English poems. Some are traditional forms of English poetry but some are not, for example haiku. (It comes from Japanese).
In fact English speaker also have borrowed from another kind of Asian potery---Tang poems from China.

25. 1. What’s the title ?
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.
-----by Wang jian
A.蝶恋花
B.竹枝词
C.望夫石
D.一剪梅

26. 2. What is the poem about?
A loyal wife kept standing on a mountain top waiting for her husband’s coming back. Year after year, the wife became a stone which looks like a woman watching into far distance.

27. 望夫石 王 建
望夫处，江悠悠，
化为石，不回头。
山头日日风覆雨，
行人归来石应语。

28. 3. What are the adjectives to convey the woman’s feelings
loneliness B. joy C. love
D. trust E. anger F. hate
G. sorrow

29. 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.

30. Tick the correct box(es) for each question
Which poem A B C D E F G H
Describes a person?
Tells a story
Describes an aspect of a season?
Is about sport?
Is about things that don’t make sense? √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

31. √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Which poem A B C D E F G H Is recited to a baby?
Describes a river scene?
Has rhyming words at the end of lines?
Repeats words or phases? √ √ √ √ √ √ √

32. Other types of English poems:
Epic (史诗)
Dramatic poems （戏剧诗）
Metrical tale （故事诗）
Ballad （民谣）
Lyric （抒情诗）
Didactic poems （说理诗）
Parody （模仿诗）
Clerihews （打油诗）

33. Clerihews （打油诗） 写打油诗的规则： 一首诗包含四句。 第一和第二句押韵，第三和第四句押韵。
第一句以人名结尾，第二句以和人名押韵的词结尾。
Our art teacher, Mr Shaw,
Really knows how to draw.
But his awful paintings,
Have caused many faintings.

34. 1. Poems bring passion (激情)to our life.
Discussion:
Are poems good for our life?
What can we get from poems?
1. Poems bring passion (激情)to our life.
2. Poems help us to understand life, virtues, beauty and romance.
3. Poems make us know we are here and that we can make our life and the world more colorful and beautiful!

35. A rhyme Good, better, best! Never have it rest! Till good is better,
And better, best!