1. POEMS

2. How many poets do you know?
Can you remember any poems you have read in school, either in Chinese or in English?

3. What are the characteristics of poems？Can you give me some examples？
Poems have beats. They may
rhyme or may not rhyme—but
they have to have rhythms.
This beat is not always obvious,
but it’s usually there.

4. 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

5. Let’s enjoy an English poem in the form of a song: Do-Re-Me and try to find out the rhymes and the rhythm.

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

7. A Few simple forms
of English Poems

8. How many kinds of poem does the reading passage talk about?
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
The translations have a free form.

9. Hush, little baby, don’t say a , Papa’s going to buy you a .
If that mocking bird won’t ,
Papa’s going to buy you a diamond
If that diamond ring turns to ,
Papa’s going to buy you a
If that looking-grass gets ,
Papa’s going to buy you a
If that billy-goat runs ,
Papa’s going to buy you another
word
mockingbird
sing
ring
brass
looking-grass
broke
billy-goat
away
today

10. I saw a fish-pond all on
I saw a house bow to a ,
I saw a person twelve-feet ,
I saw a cottage in the ,
I saw a balloon made of
I saw a coffin drop down
I saw two sparrows run a ,
I saw two horses making
I saw a girl just like a ,
I saw a kitten wear a ,
I saw a man who saw these ,
And said though strange they all were
fire
race
squire
lace
cat
high
hat
sky
too
lead
true
dead

11. We should have won…
If Jack had 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 take it easy,
If we hadn’t run out of energy.
We should have won…
If we’d been better!

12. Teasing, shouting, laughing Drying, drooping, dreading
Brother
Beautiful, athletic
Teasing, shouting, laughing
Friend and enemy too
Mine
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping, dreading
Week in, week out
Endless

13. Poem H anger hate sorrow
What is the story that the poem tells? Tell the story in your own words.
Circle one or more of the feelings below that you think the woman has. Give reasons for your answers:
loneliness joy love trust
anger hate sorrow

14. 望夫石 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 journeyer return,
This stone would utter speech
望夫石
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．

15. 望夫石
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．

16. Enjoy more Tang poems

17. A SPRING MORNING 春晓 春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟． 夜来风雨声，花落知多少．
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.
(by Meng Haoran) 春晓
春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟．
夜来风雨声，花落知多少．

18. The Willow
The slender tree is dressed in emerald all about,
A thousand branches droop like fringes made of jade.
But do you know by whom these slim leaves are cut out?
The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade.
By Meng Haoran 咏柳
碧玉妆成一树高, 万条垂下绿丝绦
不知细叶谁裁出, 二月春风似剪刀

19. In the quiet night
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed---
Could there have been a frost already?
Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight.
Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of my home.
By Li Bai
静夜思
床前明月光，疑是地上霜。
抬头望明月，低头思故乡。