Reading, listening and writing Integrating Skills Reading, listening and writing SONGS AND POEMS Why read, and sometimes even write poetry? That question is not difficult to answer if we change the word poetry to songs. …I sing when I feel good… …They are like bright and warm colors in the middle of greys… … I also like reading… … I started with small poems…

Qianhuang Senior Middle School Ice-breaking: 38 14 dance Qianhuang Senior Middle School English songs and poems London 11

Teaching Aims 1.Talk about songs & poems. 2.Improve the student’s listening ability by listening to some songs and poems 3.Master the useful skills to appreciate songs and poems, and also instruct students to write a review of a poem.

rhymes Poetry songs poems limericks

Byron John Donne John Keats Robert Frost John Milton Wordsworth

Reading comprehension: 1. I like song words because ________. A. they are bright B. They are colorful C. they are greedy D. My feelings given by them are more special. 2. Choose the best explanation of the word “ e-pal”. A. a machine B. a person C. a piece of in formation D. a friend online

Reading comprehension: 3. From Paragraph 4, we can learn ________. A. we should read poems aloud B. poems are strange C. poems are difficult to understand D. I’m special 4. What’s the main idea of the text? A. We should read poems with doors closed. B. We should first sing songs then read poems. C. Reading poems can bring people pleasure just like singing a song. D. We should first read short poems then long ones.

Reading comprehension: 10. From the text, we can infer that ________ A. the writer used to like poetry very much B. songs and poems are the same C. the writer fell in love with poems as soon as his e-pal told him something D. now reading poems is part of the writer’s life

(for some difficulties) Careful reading (for some difficulties)

Language study (1) 1. Which of the following “get though” can match the one in the second paragraph? A. We managed to get through the forest with his help. B. All of them got through, that is to say, they all passed the exam. C. I rang through you several times yesterday but just couldn’t get through to you. D. Can the patient get through the winter?

Language study(2) 2. I tried to avoid _______ him because he always bored me. A. meet B. to meet C. meeting D. met 3. ___more than a few days’ hard work to make your mark. That needs B. This cost C. Which requires D. It takes

Language study(3) 4. He contributed a lot of good idea ____the discussion. A. to B. with C. of D. on 5. Farmers often work all night long ___ the light of tractors A. through B. from C. by D. with

Do you like listening to music or Big big world---my favorite singing songs? Why? What’s your favorite song? Big big world---my favorite

A Song Big Big world

I’m a big big girl, In a big big _____ . It’s not a big big _____ . If you _____ me, But I do do feel That I do do will _____ you much,miss you much. I can see the first leaves _____ . It’s all so yellow and nice; It’s so very cold ______ Like the way I’m feeling inside.

I’m a big big girl, In a big big ______ . It’s not a big big ______ . If you ______ me, But I do do feel That I do do will ______ you much,miss you much. Outside it’s now _______, And tears are falling from my _______. Why did it have to happen? Why did it all have to rain?

I’m a big big girl , In a big big _____. It’s not a big big ______. If you _____ me, But I do do feel That I do do will miss you much,miss you much. I have your arms ______ me, Wooh like fire. But when I open my eyes, You’re _____.

I’m a big big girl , In a big big world. It’s not a big big thing. If you leave me, But I do do feel That I do do will miss you much,miss you much.

I’m a big big girl, In a big big _____ . It’s not a big big _____ . If you _____ me, But I do do feel That I do do will _____ you much,miss you much. I can see the first leaves _____ . It’s all so yellow and nice; It’s so very cold ______ Like the way I’m feeling inside. world thing leave miss falling Outside

I’m a big big girl, In a big big ______ . It’s not a big big ______ . If you ______ me, But I do do feel That I do do will ______ you much,miss you much. Outside it’s now _______, And tears are falling from my _______. Why did it have to happen? Why did it have to rain? world thing leave miss raining eyes

That I do do will miss you much,miss you much. I’m a big big girl , In a big big world. It’s not a big big thing. If you leave me, But I do do feel That I do do will miss you much,miss you much. I have your arms ______ me, Wooh like fire. But when I open my eyes, You’re _____. around gone

I’m a big big girl , In a big big world. It’s not a big big thing. If you leave me, But I do do feel That I do do will miss you much,miss you much.

enjoy and appreciate

Dust of Snow ---By Robert Frost 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 ---By Robert Frost

Try to find the words that rhyme: crow me mood heart snow tree rued part

How many things does Robert Frost write? me crow heart tree snow mood

A change of mood from what mood? to what mood? bored, sad light-hearted, happy, enjoy the day’s beauty

I once had a bad day, a day I wished had not happened. Later on I walked under a tree. A crow shook its feather, and snow from the tree fell down on me. This little event made me a bit less unhappy. I felt light-hearted and then enjoyed the day’s beauty.

Right here waiting Oceans 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 I say forever? Wherever you go, whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks ---By Richard Marx

Homework Read the English poem and write a review: Come, the wind may never again Blow as now it blows for us; And the stars may never again Shine as now the shine; Long before October returns, Seas of blood will have parted us; And you must crush the love in your heart, And I the love in mine.

                                                 GooDbye

A rhyme Good, better, best! Never let it rest! Till good is better, And better, best!

Limericks A large lady from Corfu, Wished to travel to Peru. But Whether buses or trains Or boarding planes, There wasn’t a door she’d get through.

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"

Title: Name of the poet: ________ Describe what the poem is about. Describe what images you see in your mind and what feelings the poem gives you Describe what you think the poem is about when you think about it more deeply. Also, give your opinions about the poem. Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3

ON THE SEA John Keats It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper found, That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be mov'd for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of Heaven were unbound. Oh ye! who have your eye-balls vex'd and tir'd, Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; Oh ye! whose ears are dinn'd with uproar rude, Or fed too much with cloying melody - Sit ye near some old Cavern's Mouth, and brood Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quir'd!

A SOLDIER Robert Frost He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies pointed as it ploughed the dust. If we who sight along it round the world, See nothing worthy to have been its mark, It is because like men we look too near, Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere, Our missiles always make too short an arc. They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect The curve of earth, and striking, break their own; They make us cringe for metal-point on stone. But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.

The Isles of Greece George Gordon Byron The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, -- Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon -- And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might yet be free For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.