1. Brainstorming Why? Discuss the reasons why people write poems.
to encourage people
to create a mood
to tell a story
to make others laugh
to express feelings
Why?
to express a point of view
to create images in the readers
to describe something
to play with words …

2. Poetry is a great form of literature
Poetry is a great form of literature. There are different kinds of rules for poems, so the forms of poems are quite different from country to country. The passage in Reading will tell us something about forms of English poems.

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

4. Step2. fast reading 1.What’s the main topic of reading ?
The reading tells us some forms of
English poems
2. What’s the main idea of Para 1?
1.What’s the main topic of reading ?
It is about the reasons why people write poems.

5. The reading passage discusses five kinds of poems. What are they?
Cinquain
五行诗
Nursery rhymes 童谣
Five kinds of poems
List poems
清单诗
Tang poems 唐诗
Haiku
俳句诗

6. Step3 Careful reading Forms of Poems Characteristics
Read the text carefully and find out the Characteristics of each form
Forms of Poems
Characteristics
1______
_______
Have strong _________
Have a lot of repetition
Easy to learn and to
_________
rhythm and rhyme
Nursery
rhymes
recite

7. 2_________
Easy to write
Repeat ________ and
some rhyme while other do
not
3.Cinquain
Made up of ____________
Conveys a _______________
picture in just a few words
phrases
List poems
five lines
strong

8. Haiku A Japanese form of poetry Made up of ___________ Easy to write4.
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
clear
Haiku
translations

9. A A father’s love for his baby Nursery rhyme(童谣)
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.
[ə:d]
[in]
[a:s]
[əu]
[ei]
A father’s love for his baby

10. B List some Ridiculous things List poem (清单诗)
I saw a fish-pond all on fire
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 B
List poem
(清单诗)
List some
Ridiculous things

11. C Our first football match
We would have won…
if Jack had just 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,
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 taken it easy,
if we hadn’t run out of energy,
if we’ve been better! C
Losing a football match and the writer lists
A lot of excuses for their failure

12. POEM C : and answer the following questions
1. What sports do you think the speaker is writing about?
2. Did his 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 own excuse?
Football No
Nine No
If no, what is the reason for their failure?
The reason why they fail is that they are not good enough.

13. C Our first football match We would have won…
if Jack had just 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,
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 taken it easy,
if we hadn’t run out of energy,
if we’ve been better! C

14. Five lines Cinquain (五行诗) (poem D and E) Brother Beautiful ,athletic
Teasing, shouting ,laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine
---one word (topic)
---two adjs
---three verbs with –ing
---four words
---one word

15. E Does the speaker like the topic? Sleepy, salty
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping, dreading
Week in, week out
Endless
Does the speaker like the topic?

16. F G 17 syllables A fallen blossom 雪儿融化了, Snow having melted, 作者Issa
Haiku (俳句诗 ) F
A fallen blossom
is coming back to the branch.
look, a butterfly!
(by Moritake) 17
syllables
落下的花朵
回到了树枝上。
瞧啊，是个蝴蝶！
　　　作者Moritake G
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)

17. Loneliness joy love trust anger hate sorrow
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)
loneliness
Loneliness joy love trust anger hate sorrow
love
trust
sorrow

18. 　　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。　　　　　　

19. 相传远古时代，这里是汪洋大海，有一少妇，因丈夫出海打鱼，久而不返，遂登山望夫，感而成石。

20. Enjoy more poems

21. What forms are the following
Consolidation
step4
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 poem

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

23. Warming, welcoming, calming
Cinquain (五行诗)
Sunshine
Lovely, cheerful
Warming, welcoming, calming
I sing with you
Brightness

24. Meeting blue sky and green earth Melding（合并） sun and rain.
A Rainbow
Curving up, then down. 
Meeting blue sky and green earth 
Melding（合并） sun and rain.
Haiku(俳句)

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

26. 春晓 春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟． 夜来风雨声，花落知多少． Tang Poem(唐诗) A SPRING MORNING
I awake light-hearted this morning of spring,
Everywhere round me is the singing of birds,
But now I remember the night, the storm,
And I wonder how many blossoms were broken. 春晓
春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟．
夜来风雨声，花落知多少．

27. Step5 Translation: 举杯邀明月，对影成三人。
Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, To bring me my shadow and make us three.
举杯邀明月，对影成三人。

28. When all at once I turn my head, find her there lantern(灯笼) light is dimly(朦胧地) shed.
蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处

29. 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。
《声声慢》-- 李清照
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?
《西风颂》-- 雪莱

30. 回乡偶书 贺之章 Try to translate the following Chinese poem into English.
回乡偶书 贺之章
少小离家老大回,
乡音无改鬓毛衰.
儿童相见不相识,
笑问客从何处来.

31. Coming Home ( a Tang poem)
I left home young and not till old do I come back,
My accent is unchanged, my hair no longer black.
The children don’t know me, whom I meet on the way
Where do you come from, revered sir?they smile and say.

32. (Homework) Have a try I would have got a higher mark in the exam If…
Write a list poem starting with “If I…”like
poem C
I would have got a higher mark in the exam
If…

33. Let’s enjoy an English poem in the form of a song to end our class

34. 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

35. Tea a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Doe
oh-oh-oh
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti Do-So-Do

36. what is poetry in your opinion or how do you understand poetry.
Deep thinking
what is poetry in your
opinion or how do you
understand poetry.

37. What is poetry? Who knows? Not a rose, but the scent of the rose;
Conclusion
Poetry
What is poetry? Who knows?
Not a rose, but the scent of the rose;
Not the sky, but the light of the sky
Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly
Not the sea, but the sound of the sea;
Not myself, but what makes me
see, hear, and feel something.
What it is , who knows?

38. 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!

39. Thank you very much!

40. B List some Ridiculous things List poem (清单诗)
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. B
List poem
(清单诗)
List some
Ridiculous things

41. 诗歌，诗歌，有诗就有歌；有诗就能歌。诗歌代表浪漫；诗歌代表欢乐。祝愿高二(8)班的全体同学，生活如诗如歌！
Poetry is also the philosophy of life.（诗歌也是生活哲学）
Robert Pinsky
诗歌，诗歌，有诗就有歌；有诗就能歌。诗歌代表浪漫；诗歌代表欢乐。祝愿高二(8)班的全体同学，生活如诗如歌！
1.Be yourself(做你自己)
2.Just do it(做就做好)
3.Enjoy everyday(享受每一天)
------Ms.Fan

42. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
He who doubts the existence of God should turn his face to the wind.
For though the wind is invisible to the naked eye,
it can be felt and heard, and even seen by looking at its effect on all the earth.

43. Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again
Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here;
Quietly I wave good-bye
To the rosy clouds in the western sky.
The golden willows by the riverside
Are young brides in the setting sun;
Their reflections on the shimmering waves
Always linger in the depth of my heart.

44. A Bike
I will buy a bike today
I will ride the bike of mine
to the countryside
With my friends side by side
At the same time
the sun is shining in the sky

45. 诗歌的定义(Definition of Poetry)
诗歌是一种语词凝练、结构跳跃、富有节奏和韵律、高度集中地反映生活和表达思想感情的文学体裁。本文着重语词、内涵等方面分析诗歌的特点，使读者对诗歌的概念和基本特征有一个宏观认识。

46. B List poem (清单诗) 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. B
List poem
(清单诗)

47. C Our first football match We would have won…
if Jack had just 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,
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 taken it easy,
if we hadn’t run out of energy,
if we’ve been better! C

48. POEM C : and answer the following questions
1. What sports do you think the speaker is writing about?
2. Did his 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 own excuse?
Football No
Nine No
If no, what is the reason for their failure?
The reason why they are fail is that they are not good enough.

49. to express a point of view
to make the reader experience sth to create a mood
to play with words

50. Five lines Cinquain (五行诗) (poem D and E) Brother Beautiful ,athletic
Teasing, shouting ,laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine
---one word (topic)
---two adjs
---three verbs with –ing
---four words
---one word

51. E Does the speaker like the topic? Sleepy, salty
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping, dreading
Week in, week out
Endless
Does the speaker like the topic?

52. F G 17 syllables A fallen blossom 雪儿融化了, Snow having melted, 作者Issa
Haiku (俳句诗 ) F
A fallen blossom
is coming back to the branch.
look, a butterfly!
(by Moritake) 17
syllables
落下的花朵
回到了树枝上。
瞧啊，是个蝴蝶！
　　　作者Moritake G
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)

53. 相传远古时代，这里是汪洋大海，有一少妇，因丈夫出海打鱼，久而不返，遂登山望夫，感而成石。

54. Nursery rhyme:
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.

55. 望夫石 王建
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。

56. What forms are the following
poems?
step6
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 poem

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

58. Why do people write poems?
to tell a story
to express feelings
to recall an enjoyable or unpleasant incident
to make others laugh
to tell the life or friendship
to delight the kids
to describe the seasons or scenes
for entertainment
as the lyrics of a song

59. 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

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

61. Poetry is a great form of literature
Poetry is a great form of literature. There are different kinds of rules for poems, so the forms of poems are quite different from country to country. The passage in Reading will tell us something about forms of English poems.

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

63. concrete but imaginative,
Read for information
Forms of Poems
Characteristics
Nursery Rhymes
List Poems
concrete but imaginative,
rhyme, have strong rhythm and a lot of repetition, easy to learn and recite
a flexible line length, repeated phrases, may rhyme or not

64. Step5 choose 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 fish-pond on fire.
A cottage in the sky.
C. A girl like a cat.
D. A person ten-feet high.

65. ? Which of the following words can convey the woman’s feelings
loneliness B. joy C. love
D. trust E. anger F. hate
G. sorrow ?
A. loneliness
C. love
D. trust
G. sorrow

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

67. 最是那一低头的温柔， 象一朵水莲花不胜凉风的娇羞。 (徐志摩)
That bow is the gentlest,
like a lotus in the cool breeze
over the water.
最是那一低头的温柔， 象一朵水莲花不胜凉风的娇羞。
(徐志摩)

68. step6Scanning: √ √ √ √ √ √ √ fill in the following form.(4’)
Which poem A B C D E F G H
Is recited to a baby?
Tells a story
Describes season?
Is about sport?
Is about things that don’t make sense? √ √ √ √ √ √ √

69. Let’s enjoy an English poem in the form of a song to end our class

70. 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

71. Tea a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Doe
oh-oh-oh
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti Do-So-Do

72. Translation
一进校门,心情烦躁.
两位主任,按时来到.
三餐校饭,餐餐难饱.
四面围墙,插翅难逃.

73. Quiz in Chinese traditional poems
Can you recite the Chinese traditional poems according to their English translation?
Let’s have competition.

74. If you would ask me how my sorrow has increased, Just see the over-brimming river flowing east!
Translated by Xu Yuanchong
《虞美人》
问君能有几多愁，恰似一江春水向东流。
———李煜

75. 明月几时有？把酒问青天。 不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？
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.
Translated by Xu Yuanchong
水调歌头
明月几时有？把酒问青天。 不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？
——— 苏轼

76. When all at once I turn my head,
I look for her in vain.
When all at once I turn my head,
I find her there where lantern light is dimly shed.
Translated by Xu Yuanchong
众里寻他千百度， 蓦然回首， 那人却在， 灯火阑珊处。
青玉案. 元夕
--- 辛弃疾

77. Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, To bring me my shadow and make us three.
举杯邀明月，对影成三人。

78. Wildfire never quite consumes them -- They are tall once more in the spring wind.
野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。

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