1、Unit 2 POEMSReading 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
2、 obvious,but its 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.)poempoetpoetryrhymerhythmrhythmicRhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry.Without rhythm,there wouldnt be poems.Twinkle twinkle little star How I wonder what you are,Up above the world so highLike a diamond in the sky.强 弱强弱 强 弱
3、 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 o
4、f a songLets 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 deerRay a drop of golden sunMe a name I call myselfFar a long long way to runSew a needle pulling threadLa a note to follow SewDo re miTea a drink with jam and breadTha
5、t will bring us back to Doe oh-oh-ohThat will bring us back to DoeDo-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti Do-So-Do1.Do you have a favourite poem in Chinese or in English?Why is it your favouritepoem?Chinese Ancient PoetsQu YuanDu FuLi Bai离骚春望静夜思Chinese Ancient PoetsWang WeiBai JuyiSu Dongpo相思草暮江吟念奴娇Chinese Modern Poet
6、sGuo Moruo凤凰涅槃Wen Yiduo死水Ai Qing大堰河Chinese Modern Poets雨巷Dai Wangsu再别康桥Xu Zhimo致橡树Shu TingAncient poets in EnglandWilliam Shakespeare (15641616)154 sonnetsGeorge Gordon Byron(17881824)Don Juan唐璜Percy ByssheShelley (17921822)Ode to the West WindOther famous poets in foreign countriesRobert Frost (187
7、41963)America荒野（Desert Places）Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882）AmericaRabindranathTagore(1861-1941)IndiaJitanjali（吉檀枷利）Stray Bird（飞鸟集）A Few simple forms of English PoemsReadingForms of PoemsCharacteristics 1_Have strong 2_ Have a lot of repetitionEasy to learn and to 3_Read the text carefully and fill
8、 in the blanks.Nurseryrhymes rhythmandrhymerecite4_Easy to writeRepeat 5 _ and some rhyme while other do notCinquainEasy to writeMade up of 6 _ Conveys a 7_ picture in just a few wordsListpoemsphrasesfivelinesstrongHaikuA Japanese form of poetryMade up of 8 _ Easy to writeGives a 9_ pictureCreates a
9、 special feeling in just a few wordsTang PoemsThe 10_ have a free form.translations17syllablesclearHush,little baby,dont say a word,Papas going to buy you a mockingbird.If that mockingbird wont sing,Papas going to buy you a diamond ring.If that diamond ring turns to brass,Papas going to buy you a lo
10、oking-grass.Read and answer these questions.If that looking-grass gets broke,Papas going to buy you a billy-goat.If that billy-goat runs away,Papas going to buy you another today.1.What is the babys father going to buy if the mirror gets broken?If the mirror gets broken,the babys father will buy a b
11、illy-goat instead.2.What is the babys father going to do if the goat runs away?Hes going to buy the baby another billy-goat.I saw a fish-pond all on fireI 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
12、,I saw a fish-pond all on fireI 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 wonIf Jack had scored that goal,If wed had just a few more minutes,I
13、f we had trained harder,If Ben had passed the ball to Joe,If wed had thousands of fans screaming,Our first football matchIf I hadnt taken my eye off the ball,If we hadnt stayed up so late the night before,If we hadnt take it easy,If we hadnt run out of energy.We should have wonIf wed been better!1.W
14、hat is the poem about?2.Did the authors team win the match?3.Why didnt the players win the match?4.Does the author really believe his or her excuses?How do you know?Sample answers:1.The speaker is writing about football.2.No,his or her team didnt win.3.The players didnt win because:Jack didnt score
15、that goal;they didnt have enough time;they hadnt train hard.4.No,because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to winBrotherBeautiful,athletic,Teasing,shouting,laughingFriend and enemy too MineSummerSleepy,salty,Drying,drooping,dreading,Week in,week out,En
16、dless1.What are the poems about?2.Do the authors like the subjects?Give your reasons.1.his/her brother summer 2.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.No.The reader gets the feeli
17、ng that the speaker cannot wait until the summer is over.The words drooping,dreading,week in,week out and endless convey this feeling.Poem HWhat 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 yo
18、ur answers:loneliness joy love trust anger hate sorrowWhere 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.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。1
19、.A womans 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 hus
20、band 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 husbands coming back,she was very sad.Read the text carefully and choose the best answers.
21、1.What is the babys father going to buy if the mockingbird wont sing in Poem A?A.A billy-goat.B.A diamond ring.C.A looking-glass.D.A computer.2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Poem B?A.A fish-pond on fire.B.A cottage in the sky.C.A girl like a cat.D.A person ten-feet high.BD3.Which of the
22、 following is NOT mentioned in Poem F?A.A child.B.A branch.C.A butterfly.D.A blossom.4.What kind of feeling is conveyed in Poem G?A.Sorrow.B.Love.C.Happiness.D.Loneliness.ACEnjoy more Tang poemsA SPRING MORNINGI awake light-hearted this morning of spring,Everywhere round me the singing of birds But
23、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 sci
24、ssor blade.By Meng HaoranIn the quiet nightSo 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 Bai1.Read the text aloud and recite Paragraph 1.2.Prepare your favorite
25、 Tang poem(s)and translate it/them into English.Homework Sample translation of Tang poemsCOMING HOMEI 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 HOLIDAYAll alone in a foreign land.Im twice as homesick on this day,when brothers carry dogwood up the mountain,each of them a branch and my branch missing.
