1、人教课标 高二 选修 6Unit 2u Do you remember any little poems or songs you learned when you were a child?u Do you remember any poems you have read in high school,either in Chinese or in English?Can you recite any?u What are the characteristics of poems?Can you give me some examples?Poems have beats.They may
2、rhyme or may not rhyme but they have to have rhythms.This beat is not always obvious,but its usually there.Rhyme 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
3、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。构成一个韵节的四种情况:强+弱,强+弱弱弱+强,弱+强诗歌诗人诗歌（总称）韵,压韵的词(n.)压韵(v.)节奏(n.)有节奏的(adj.)poempoetpoetryrhymerhythmrhythmicThere are many reasons why people write poems.In small groups make a list of these reasons.Why do people write poems?People write poems to tell a story to expr
4、ess 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 of a songLets enjoy an English poem in the form of a song:Do-Re-Meand try to find out the rhymes and the rhythm.Doe a deer a female de
5、erRay 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 breadThat will bring us back to Doe oh-oh-ohThat will bring us back to DoeDo-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti Do-So-DoScan the text for the two questions.1.W
6、hat is the main idea topic of the reading passage?2.What five kinds of poems does the reading passage talk about?Some simple forms of English poems.Nursery rhymes,list poems,the cinquain,haiku and Tang poems.Forms of PoemsCharacteristics _Have strong _ Have a lot of repetitionEasy to learn and to _R
7、ead the text carefully and fill in the blanks.Nurseryrhymes rhythmandrhymerecite_Easy to writeRepeat _ and some rhyme while other do notCinquainEasy to writeMade up of _ Conveys a _ picture in just a few wordsList poemsphrasesfive linesstrongHaikuA Japanese form of poetryMade up of _ Easy to writeGi
8、ves a _ pictureCreates a special feeling in just a few wordsTang PoemsThe _ 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
9、 going to buy you a looking-grass.2.Read and answer 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 2.buy if the mirror gets broken?If the mirror gets broken,the babys
10、 father will buy a billy-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.3.What is the poem A about?Use your own words to explain it.Poem A is a nursery thyme that illustrates a fathers love for his baby.I saw a fish-pond all on
11、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 a coffin drop down dead,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 sa
12、w a man who saw these too,And said though strange they all were true.What is the poem B about?Poem B is an amusing nonsense poem which describes images of some ridiculous things.We should have won If Jack had scored that goal,If wed had just a few more minutes,If we had trained harder,If Ben had pas
13、sed 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 won If wed been better!1.What is the poem C about?2.Why didnt t
14、he players win the match?3.Does the author really believe his or her excuses?How do you know?Answer these questions.Sample answers:Poem C is about losing a football match and the writer lists a lot of excuses for their failure.1.What is the poem C about?They didnt win because they didnt have enough
15、time;they didnt have thousands of fans screaming;they stayed up too late the night before;they ran out of energy.2.Why didnt the players win the match?No.The author doesnt believe his excuses,because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to win 3.Does the
16、author really believe his or her excuses?How do you know?BrotherBeautiful,athleticTeasing,shouting,laughingFriend and enemy too MineSummerSleepy,salty Drying,drooping,dreadingWeek in,week out Endless1.What are the poems about?2.Do the authors like the subjects?Give your reasons.Poem D is a descripti
17、on of a lovely brother.Poem E is a description of hot and boring summer.Poem D:Yes,the author likes his subject.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.Poem E:No,the author doesnt like
18、 his subject.The reader gets the feeling that the speaker cannot wait until the summer is over.The words drooping,dreading,week in,week out and endless convey this feeling.A fallen blossomIs coming back to the branch.Look,a butterfly!Snow having melted.The whole village is brimfulOf happy children.W
19、hat are the poems about?Poem F describes how a butterfly rests on a tree.Poem G describes that the weather is warmer and the village is full of happy children.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 ra
20、in 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.What is the story that the poem tells?Tell the story in your own words.2.Circle one or more of the feelings below that you think the woman has.Give reasons for your answers:loneliness joy love t
21、rust anger hate sorrow1.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
22、 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 husbands coming back,she was very sad.3.Read the text carefully and
23、 choose the best answers.1.What is the babys father going to buy 2.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
24、-feet high.3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Poem F?A.A child.B.A branch.B.C.A butterfly.D.A blossom.4.What kind of feeling is conveyed in Poem G?A.Sorrow.B.Love.B.C.Happiness.D.Loneliness.A SPRING MORNINGI awake light-hearted this morning of spring,Everywhere round me the singing of bird
25、s But now I remember the night,the storm,And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.(by Meng Haoran)The WillowThe 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 a
26、s scissor 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 fav
27、orite Tang poem(s)and translate it/them into English.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.
