1. poems
Unit 2 Poems
Do you remember any little poems or songs you learned when you were a child?

2. a nursery rhyme in Wenzhou dialect
姆姆你显能 　　阿妈教你吃馄饨 　　馄饨汤，喝眼光 　　馄饨肉，配白粥 　　馄饨皮，配番薯 　　馄饨碗，吃爻倒端转

3. What are the features(特点) of this little poem?
nursery rhyme 童谣
easy to read
easy to remember (repetition)
have a kind of rhythm(节奏)
have a kind of rhyme (押韵) ……

4. Have a try! Which words rhyme?
base
afraid
story
fail
glad
night
mad
tale
glory
recite
shade
embrace
Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry.

5. Can you find the rhyme? Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky

6. Why do people write poems?
to tell a story
to express feelings
to make others laugh …

7. 1. to show the poet’s determination to fight to the end A.《枫桥夜泊》
2. to tell readers to value love
3. to tell a story of an old man coming home which he left long ago
4. to describe friendship
5. to convey (show) the poet’s feeling of homesickness.
6. to describe a night scene
A.《枫桥夜泊》
B.《赠汪伦》
C.《回乡偶书》
D.《红豆》
E.《过零丁洋》
F.《静夜思》
（唐、张继）
（唐、李白）
（唐、贺知章）
（唐、王维）
（宋、文天祥）
（唐、李白）

8. A few Simple Forms
of English Poems

9. Are all the poems you read in the same length?
Do poets write the same form of poems?

10. How many kinds of poems does the text mention? What are they?
童谣 清单诗 五行诗 俳句诗 唐诗

11. features(特征) of nursery rhymes
a. They are a common type of _________ poetry.
b. They r_______, have strong r______ and a lot
of r_________.
children’s
hyme
hythm
epetition

12. Poem A has rhyming lines. Can you tell me its rhyming words?
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.

13. 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.

15. 1.What’s the baby’s father going to buy if the looking glass gets broken?
A. a mocking bird B. a diamond ring
C. a 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. features(特征) of list poems
A list poem is a poem that lists things.
It has a ________(灵活的) line length and
repeated phrases, and some rhyme while
others do not.
flexible

17. New words in the poem B squire cottage lead sparrow coffin lace kitten乡绅
村舍，小屋 铅 麻雀 棺材
蕾丝，花边 小猫

18. 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.

19. New phrases in the poem C take it easy run out of
放松，不紧张 用完
This morning I took a taxi to No. 14 Middle
School. I was very nervous and the driver
noticed it. He comforted me, “____________;
there’s nothing difficult.” I felt a little bit relaxed
after his encouragement. But an embarrassing
(尴尬的) thing happened when I arrived.
I found I had ___________ my money.
Take it easy
run out of

20. Read 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 the
didn’t win?
4. Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuse?
Football No
Nine No

21. features(特征) of the haiku
It is a Japanese form of poetry that is made up of 17 syllables It gives a clear picture and creates a special feeling in just a few words.

22. Poem F 落下的花朵 回到了树枝上 瞧啊，是个蝴蝶！ A fallen blossom
Which season do the two poems describe?
Poem F
A fallen blossom
Is coming back to the branch
Look, a butterfly
落下的花朵
回到了树枝上
瞧啊，是个蝴蝶！

23. Poem G 雪儿溶化了 整个村庄充满着 欢乐的儿童 Snow having melted
The whole village is brimful
Of happy children
雪儿溶化了
整个村庄充满着
欢乐的儿童

24. Where she awaits her husband, On and on the river flows
　　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。　　　　　　
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 traveller return,
this stone would utter speech.
(by Wang Jian)

25. What emotions does the poem try to convey?
loneliness B. joy
C. love D. trust
E. anger F. hate
G. sorrow

26. features(特征) of cinquains
The cinquain is ___________(由…组成)
_____ lines. It shows a strong picture in
just a few words
made up of
five

27. a cinquain ------1 noun Brother Beautiful, athletic
Teasing, shouting , laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping , dreading
Week in, week out
Endless
adjectives
verbs
words
word

28. Create a conquain in groups of four.
Learn to write!
Create a conquain in groups of four.
Your conquain should be like this:
noun X
X, X
X, X , X
X X X X
adjectives
verbs
words
word

29. Firing, boiling, melting Filled with unselfish love Forever
Ellen’s conquain
Family
Familiar, strange
Firing, boiling, melting
Filled with unselfish love
Forever
noun
adjectives
verbs
words
word 家
昔日的回忆，异地的思念
燃烧的，沸腾着，溶化了
满载无私的爱
直到永远

30. Summary Today we have enjoyed five types of English poems.
1.Can you tell me the names of these five types?
2.How about their features?

31. Homework Choose one poem which you like best to recite.
2. Write down the conquain you created.

32. Thank you!

34. Read the introduction of each form of poem carefully and fill in the blanks.
Poetry is used to tell a story or _________ what will give us a strong impression. Or it is used to ________ certain ___________.
_________________ is a common type of children’s poetry. They ________ children because of strong rhythm and _______ and also repetition, and make them easy to learn and ________ when they learn about language.
List poems have a _______ line length and _________ phrases which give both a ________ and a rhythm to the poem.
describe
convey
emotions
Nursery rhymes
delight
rhyme
recite
flexible
repeated
pattern

35. 4.Cinquain, a poem, consists of _______ lines, where students can convey a strong ______ in just a few words.
5. Haiku, a __________ form of poetry rather than a traditional form of English poetry, has ___________, and gives a clear picture and creates a ________ feeling in just a few words.
6. English speakers enjoy Tang poems from China_____________. A lot of Tang poetry has been ____________ into English.
five
picture
Japanese
17 syllables
special
in particular
translated

37. Limericks WOMEN If you kiss her, you are not a gentleman
If you don't, you are not a man
If you praise her, she thinks you are lying
If you don't, you are good for nothing
If you agree to all her likes, she is abusing
If you don't, you are not understanding
If you make romance, you are an 'experienced man'
If you don't you are half a man
If you visit her too often, she thinks it is boring
If you don't, she accuses you of double crossing
If you are well dressed, she says you are a playboy
If you don't, you are a dull boy
…..
"O LORD, tell me what to do. AMEN"

38. Why do 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 describe the seasons or scenes
for entertainment
as the lyric of a song

39. 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.

40. Why do 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

41. Check Yourself!
A clumsy young fellow named Tim,
Was never taught how to swim,
He fell off a dock (码头),
And sunk like a rock,
And that was the end of him.