1. Unit Four
English poetry 张慧

2. Teaching aims: 1.Have a good understanding of the text.
2.Improve the Ss’ reading ability.
3.Provide Ss with opportunities to know about English poems and poets.

3. Key points:
Have a good understanding of the text by learning the text and grasp some useful reading methods such as skimming and scanning.

4. Difficulties:
How to improve students’ reading ability.

5. Teaching methods:
Task-base teaching method, communicative method, Situational Approach and Whole Language Teaching .

6. Teaching aids:
Computer, recorder, blackboard and some slides.

7. Teaching procedure: Lead-in Listen to the tape skimming
Careful reading
Homework

8. TASK lead-in
Please enjoy this poem

9. Little Star by Jane Taylor (1806)
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
When nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Then the traveler in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark;
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.

10. 小星星 小小星星亮晶晶， 很想知道你是啥？ 远离人世高高挂， 好象宝石嵌天庭。 整夜不停眨眼睛。 小小星星亮晶晶， 很想知道你是啥？
灿灿太阳西沉去， 阳光不再照大地， 你在天上亮晶晶，
整夜不停眨眼睛。
小小星星亮晶晶， 很想知道你是啥？
沉沉黑夜旅游人， 感谢星星放光彩，
若非你在天上照， 不辨方向路难行。

11. TASK 2 Listening Comprehension
Listen to the tape and answer the following questions.

12. 1. How many famous poets are mentioned in the text?
2. Who are they? And what country do they come from?
Name
Nationality

13. Do you happen to know any of the English poets? Now let’s get to
John Donne
Do you happen
to know any of the
English poets?
Now
let’s get to
know some
of them.
William Shakespeare

14. Alexander Pope
John Milton

15. George Gordon Byron
William Wordsworth

16. John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelly

17. Chinese Poets

18. 1. How many famous poets are mentioned in the text?
2. Who are they? And what country do they come from?
Name
Nationality
Du fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Su Dongpo, Lu Xun, Guomoruo, Mu Dan
China
William Shakespeare, John Donne,
John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron
British / English
Robert Frost
American

19. TASK Skimming
Divide the text into 4 parts and find out the main idea or the topic sentence of each part.

20. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Par4 4: (para. 1) general introduc-
Main idea
Writing techniques
(para. 1) general introduc-
tion to poetry
making comparison
using images
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Par4 4:
(para. 2) poetry often fol-
lows special patterns of
rhythm and rhyme
giving examples to
explain
(para. 3-5) introduction of
the history of English poet-
ry in order of time
giving examples /
making comparison
(para. 6-7) poems and litera-
ture can be bridges between
the East and the West
giving examples /
using images

21. Read the text again and fill in the form
TASK Careful reading
Read the text again and fill in the form

22. difficult to understand
Poetry
Time
Characteristics
Poets
Chinese
English
early English
17th century
the end of 17th century
18th century
19th century 
modern
the end of 19th century
has a long history
Du Fu, Li Bai
difficult to understand
the use of surprising
images
Shakespeare,
Donne, Marvell
the absence of rhyme
at the end of each line
John Milton
Pope and
Johnson
romantic poems, long
poems
Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats
Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats
close to us both in the
language and images
Robert Frost
be introduced to
China
translated by
Lu Xun and Guo

23. Milton
Pope
Donne
Wordsworth ③ ④
2000 ②
1800
1900
1700 ⑦
1600 ⑤ ① ⑥ ⑧
Keats
Byron
Shakespeare
Frost

24. TASK homework

25. Homework 1. Review “Reading” and try to understand it.
2. Preview the language points.

26. Thank you
The End