1. Integrating skills
writing

2. Lead-in Read aloud or recite the poem you have chosen.
Are you interested in English poems now?

3. Starting with small poems.
Reading
Please read the passage on page 31 fast and find out:
How did the writer learn to enjoy poems?
Reading aloud, enjoying the rhythm, the rhyme and the sound of the words;
Starting with small poems.

4. DUST OF SNOW The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow
Listening
Listen to the tape, and try to follow it.
DUST OF SNOW
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
1. How do you feel when you read or listen to it? 2. What makes you think it beautiful?

5. Writing
A poem review
Outline: (Three paragraphs) 1. What is the poem about? 2. What images do you see in your mind? 3. What do you think of the poem?
Writing together: Read the poem and find out answers to the above three questions:

6. Sample writing:
About Dust of Snow It is about the beauty of nature I see a person in a bad mood early that day. But later on, when he walked
or stood under a hemlock tree, a crow on the tree happened to shake its feathers, and snow from the tree fell down on him, which changed his mood and made him a bit less unhappy I like the poem very much because
of its rhyming sounds and the fluent patterns of rhythm. The language is simple, so I can understand it easily. Also, nature is so great and beautiful that it can change people’s mood.

7. Writing by yourself: RIGHT HERE WAITING Ocean apart day after day, And I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line, but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never, How can we say forever? Wherever you go, whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you.

8. Homework
Now find an English poem and write a review.
Please write it in three paragraphs.