1. Unit 2 poems
A few Simple Forms
of English Poems

2. Poems recitation

3. Enjoy poems

4. (By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Beautiful ______? And what if,
The Dream
(By Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
What if you slept?
And what if,
In your sleep
You ________?
In your dream,
You went to ______
And there plucked
A strange and
Beautiful ______? And what if,
When you _____,
You had the flower
In your _____?
…Ah, what then?
Next let’s listen to a beautiful poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and fill in the blanks.
dreamed
heaven
flower
awoke
hand

5. Step1 Warming Up Chinese Ancient Poets
Do you know these poets? Do you know other information about them?( eg. where, when, what, etc.)
Chinese Ancient Poets
Li Bai
Qu Yuan
Du Fu
静夜思
《离骚》
《春望》

6. Chinese Ancient Poets
Su Dongpo
Wang Wei
Bai Juyi
《相思》
《草》
《暮江吟》
《念奴娇》

7. Chinese Modern Poets
Guo Moruo
《凤凰涅槃》
Wen Yiduo
《死水》
Ai Qing《大堰河》

8. Chinese Modern Poets
Su Ting
Dai Wangsu
Xu Zhimo
《致橡树》
《雨巷》
《再别康桥》

9. Ancient poets in England
William Shakespeare
(1564～1616)
154 sonnets
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792～1822)
Ode to the West Wind
George Gordon Byron
(1788—1824 )
Don Juan 《唐璜》

10. Other famous poets in foreign countries
Rabindranath Tagore ( ) India
Jitanjali（吉檀枷利）
Stray Bird（飞鸟集）
Robert Frost (1874～1963)
America
《荒野》 （Desert Places）
Ralph Waldo Emerson ( ）
America

11. There are many reasons why people write poems
There are many reasons why people write poems. We’ve learned a lot of Chinese poems before, can you list some of the reasons?
to tell a story
to express feelings
to make others laugh
to create images in the readers
to express a point of view
to make the reader experience the sight, sounds, smells,
feel and taste of something
to create a mood
to play with words
to practice writing ….

12. 1to show the poet’s determination to fight to the end
2 tell readers to value love
3 to tell a story of an old man coming home which he left long ago
4 to describe friendship
5 convey(show) the poet’s feeling of homesickness.
6 describe a night scene
A.枫桥夜泊
B.赠汪伦
C.回乡偶书
D.相思
E.过零丁洋
F.静夜思
（唐、张继）
（唐、李白）
（唐、贺知章）
（唐、王维）
（宋、文天祥）
（唐、李白）

13. Rhyme like a poem and have a strong rhythm
Step2 Pre-reading
1.Let’s enjoy a song first. Can you find something like a poem?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Rhyme like a poem and have a strong rhythm
2.Go over the poems quickly and tick the correct box/boxes of each question.

14. √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Which poem A B C D E F G H describes a person?
tells a story?
describes an aspect of a season?
is about a sport?
is about things that don’t make sense?
is recited to a baby?
describes a river scene?
has rhyming words? √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

15. Step3 Reading Task1 Fast reading Cinquain Nursery rhymes
How many kinds of poems did the text mention? What are they?
Cinquain
Nursery rhymes
Five kinds of poems
Tang poems
List poems
Haiku

16. Task2 Second reading Listen to the text first
Among the eight poems mentioned in the text, which two poems have a strong rhythm? Listen again, pay attention to the beats.
Which two poems have rhyming lines? Circle the pairs of rhyming words.
List Poems
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 coffin drop down dead,
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.
Nursery Rhymes
Hush, little baby ,don’t say a word,
Papa’s going to buy you a mockingbird,
If that mocking bird 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 –glass.
If that looking –glass 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.

18. Task3 Careful reading
Listen to poem A and choose the best answer
1.What’s the baby’s father going to buy if the mirror gets broken?
A. a mocking bird B. a diamond ring
C. looking glass D. a billy-goat
2. What is Papa going to buy for the baby if that billy-goat runs away?
A. a looking glass B. today
C. another billy-goat D. nothing

19. Listen to poem C and answer the questions
1.What sports do you think the speaker is writing about?
2.Did his or her team win the game?
3.How many excuses did they make to explain why they didn’t win?
4. Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuse? How do you know?
Football No
Nine
No, because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to win.
5.Do you ever give excuses when you don’t win or do something?

20. Listen to poem H Where she awaits her husband
望夫石 王 建
望夫处，江悠悠，
化为石，不回头。 山头日日风覆雨
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.
-----by Wang Jian
What’s the poem about? Work in pairs and try to retell the story in your own words.
What do you think are the woman’s feelings?
A. loneliness B. joy C. love D. trust
E. anger F. hate G. sorrow

21. The woman may have 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.
Task4 Discuss and fill in the chart

22. characteristics forms of poem Nursery rhymes List poems Cinquain Haiku
Tang Poems
strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to recite
repeated phrases and some rhyme
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.
have a free form

23. Step4 Post-reading 1.Learn to write a cinquain Brother
Beautiful ,athletic
Teasing, shouting ,laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine
a name (subject of the poem)
two adjs ( describe the subject）
three verbs ending with –ing (describe actions)
four words (opinions or feelings)
restates the subject in anther single word
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping, dreading
Week in, week out
Endless

24. 2.Learn other types of poems
Other types of English poems:
Epic (史诗)
Dramatic poems （戏剧诗）
Metrical tale （故事诗）
Ballad （民谣）
以上四种为叙事诗（Narrative poems),此外还有：
Lyric （抒情诗）
Didactic poems （说理诗）
Parody （模仿诗）
Clerihews （打油诗）

25. An example of clerihews:
Our art teacher, Mr. Shaw,
Really knows how to draw.
But his awful paintings ,
Have caused many faintings.
打油诗必须风趣幽默，不必担心音节和单词的数量，甚至不必考虑整首诗的节奏。规则很简单，一首诗包含四句：第一和第二句押韵，第三句和第四句押韵；第一句以人名结尾，第二句以和人名押韵的词结尾。 pattern: a a b b

26. 走进一间房， 四面都是墙， 抬头见老鼠， 低头见蟑螂！ A large lady from Corfu,
Wished to travel to Peru.
But Whether buses or trains
Or boarding aero-planes,
There wasn’t a door she’d get through.
rhyme:
pattern:
a a b b a
limerick
走进一间房，
四面都是墙，
抬头见老鼠，
低头见蟑螂！

27. Homework: Step5 Summing Up
1.At the beginning we have known some famous poets and the reasons why people write poems.
2.Next we’ve learned the five kinds of English poems Which five ,you remember?
3.In the reading text we analyzed the eight English poems, and we knew the features of each kind.
4.Then I taught you how to write cinquain and clerihews.
Homework:
1.Recite three of the eight poems in reading text.
2.Try to write a cinquain poem and a clerihew.
3.Learn the new words and expressions in the reading text.

28. Thank you for attending!