课标人教实验版 高二 Module 6 Unit 2

广东 黄立葵 POEMS

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

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.

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

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 构成一个韵节的四种情况 : 强 + 弱, 强 + 弱弱 弱 + 强, 弱 + 强

唐诗分五言, 七言。根据韵节来分 英诗可分为单韵诗、双韵诗、三韵 诗 …… 至八韵诗

Why do people write poems? 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

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.

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 Do re mi

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

A Few simple forms of English Poems Reading

Forms of PoemsCharacteristics Nursery Rhymes List Poems Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to recite Repeated phrases and some rhyme How many kinds of poem does the reading passage talk about?

Forms of Poems Characteristics Cinquain Haiku Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words. Made up of 17 syllables; Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words.

Forms of Poems Characteristics Tang Poems The translations have a free form.

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-grass. Read and answer these questions.

If that looking-grass gets broke, Papa’s going to buy you a billy-goat. If that billy-goat runs away, Papa’s going to buy you another today.

1. What is the baby’s father going to buy if the mirror gets broken? If the mirror gets broken, the baby’s father will buy a billy-goat instead. 2. What is the baby’s father going to do if the goat runs away? He’s going to buy the baby another billy-goat.

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 a fish-pond all on fire

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.

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, Our first football match

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!

Sample answers: 1. The speaker is writing about football. 2. No, his or her team didn’t win. 3. The players didn’t win because: Jack didn’t score that goal; they didn’t have enough time; they hadn’t train hard….

4. No, because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to win…

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

1. D: his /her brother E: summer 2. D: Yes. Although the speaker describes a couple of negative aspects of his/ her brother, the reader can feel the affection that the speaker feels for his/ her brother.

E: No. The reader gets the feeling that the speaker cannot wait until the summer is over. The words drooping, dreading, week in, week out and endless convey this feeling.

Poem H 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

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.

1. A woman’s husband has gone away. The woman waits for him by the river where she last saw him. She waits and waits, never moving from that spot and never speaking, while the river continues to flow and the wind and rain come and go.

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.

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。

Enjoy more Tang 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. (by Meng Haoran)

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

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

1. Read the text aloud and recite Paragraph Prepare your favorite Tang poem (s) and translate it/them into English. Homework

Sample translation of Tang poems COMING HOME I left home young, I return old. Speaking as then, but with hair grow thin; and my children, meeting me, do not know me. They smile and say: Stranger, where do you come from?

ON THE MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY All alone in a foreign land. I’m twice as homesick on this day, when brothers carry dogwood up the mountain, each of them a branch– and my branch missing.

一首诗 a poem Language points 1. There are various reasons why people write poetry. various: different, its root is vary. poetry is a collective noun, used as an uncountable noun.

2. Some poems tell a story or… Others try to convey certain emotion. Some … others…/One… the other (s) … 常常以固定的搭配形式出现

convey: to make ideas, feelings, etc, known to sb. Colors like red convey a sense of energy and strength. Body language conveys much more information than language spoken.

3. emotion 情绪 emotional 易动感情的 kinds of feelings: 忧伤 sorrow sadness 乡愁 homesickness 悲伤 grief 憎恨 hatred 幸福 happiness 爱 love 喜欢 fondness 热情 enthusiasm 激情 passion

4. Nursery rhyme are still a common type of children’s poetry. They delight small children because… common usual normal existing in large numbers or in many places 常见的, 普遍的 happen most of the time or in most cases 惯常的 of what you would expect 正常的

common diseases usual time normal temperature normal state ( 状态） usual work common spelling mistakes delight: give sb. a lot of pleasure and enjoyment 使欣喜

1) be delighted to do Children will be delighted to receive presents from Santa Claus. 2) be delighted at/by sth. 3) delight in doing sth. 以 … 取乐 4. learn about sth. 了解, 获悉 learn sth. 学会

5. I saw a person twelve-feet high. high is used here for rhyming with the word sky. It is appropriate to “tall” here.

6. We would have won if Jack had scored that goal. score v. 得分 1) to win points or goals in a game or a competition Yao Ming scored 23 points in the first quarter. 2) gain marks in an exam

She scored 98 out of 100. score n. 二十 score 与数词 many, several 等连用时, 不加 “s”, 所修饰的名词前常省去 “of” two score of people 中应加 of, 但 three score and ten people 中不加 of ， scores of people 指 ” 许多人 ” 。

7. We would have won if we hadn’t taken it easy. 1) relax and avoid working too hard 松散，松懈 2) used to tell a person not to worry. 放心别着急

8. if we hadn’t run out of energy. I have run out of money. My money has run out. run out of patience

9. Snow melted, the whole village is brimful of happy children. As snow has melted, the whole village is … melt, melted, melted/molten be brimful of = be full of