1. Introduction Listening Cultural Corner 韶关市第五中学 李少敏

2. Do you like the Tang poems? Do you know some famous poets of Tang Dynasty? Can you give some examples? Which poems are their most famous poems?

3. Who do you think the poet’s “friend” is? A close friend or an aquantance? Do you know why the poet is saying farewell? Read the poem “Farewell to a Friend” written by Li Bai then answer: Where do you think it takes place? Is the friend going away for a long time? How is the friend going to travel?

4. Can you translate the poem into English? 送友人 李白 青山横北郭， 白水绕东城。 此地一为别， 孤蓬万里征。 浮云游子意， 落日故人情。 挥手自兹去， 萧萧班马鸣。

5. Now read another Tang poem and try to traslate it into English. 赠汪伦 李白 李白乘舟将欲行， 忽闻岸上踏歌声。 桃花潭水深千尺， 不及汪伦送我情。

6. To Wang Lun Li Bai Li Po takes a boat and is about to depart. When suddenly he hears the sound of footsteps and singing on the shore. The water in the Peach Blossom pool is a thousand feet deep. But not as deep as Wang Lun's parting love for me.

8. Listen to the interviews, then fill in the blanks. Interview 1: Can you remember any ______ of poetry in English? _____ the top of my head? Yes. Well, I can remember this: I ___________ lonely as a ______. And then… Er, I can’t remember anything after that. Do you know what it’s about? About ________ I think. lines Off wandered cloud nature

9. Interview 2: What ______ of poetry do you read? _________ poetry especially. Can you quote any? I would love to ________ you some modern poems if I could remember them. The trouble is, I read them; I think “that’s very good” and then I forget them. Well, what about the__________? Something like Daffodils, you mean? Yes. sort Modern quote classics

10. Interview 3: You’ve asked the wrong person. You should have asked my dad. He knows whole poems by ________. People in his __________ had to learn poems at school. And you didn’t have to do that? No, we had to read poetry at school, but we didn’t have to learn it by heart. So you can’t quote any poetry? I didn’t say that. I can quote a whole poem for you, if you like. It’s _______. heart generation short

11. Interview 4: Can you quote any poem? Well, I ________ I could quote some of my own poems. You mean you ________ poems yourself? Sometimes, yes. What do you write about? About love, you know, that sort of thing. Do you think we could hear one of them? Er… perhaps not on second thoughts. It’s a bit _____________. They’re very _________. suppose write embarrassing personal

12. Listen to the interviews again and answer the questions of Ex.1. Answers: 1. Listening to songs. 2. He can’t remember names. 3. Modern poetry. 4. She think the poems are good and then she forgets them. 5. To learn poem by heart. 6. To read poetry. 7. Those ones that have rhymes and rhythem. 8. They are personal.

14. Do you know them? Which country are they from? William wordsworthJohn Keats

15. Read the passage and answer the questions: 1. Which country had a golden age of poetry earlier? 2. How many Romantic poets does the passage speak about? 3. What are their similarities? Five. They are Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. They all loved nature and traveling, and they were not interested in politics. But most of them died when they were young. China.

16. 1. It’s a time of… 那是 … 的时期 It’s a time of modern science and technology now. 2. shock sb. with sth. 用 … 评击某人 ; 用 … 使某人震惊 他精彩的演讲使每个听众感到震惊。 He shocked every audience with his wonderful speech. His wonderful speech shocked every audience. 3. reflect 反射, 表达, 反映 A mirror reflects a picture of you when you look in it. The poems always reflect how the poets really feel.