人教课标 高二 选修 6 Unit 2. Do you remember any little poems or songs you learned when you...

人教课标　高二 选修 6

Unit 2

Do you remember any little poems

or songs you learned when you were a

child?

Do you remember any poems you

have read in high school, either in

Chinese or in English? Can you recite

any?

What are the characteristics of poem

s? 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 obvious, but it’s

usually there.

Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry.

Without rhythm, there wouldn’t be poems.

Twinkle twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are,

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky.

强 弱 强 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。

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.)

poem

poet

poetry

rhyme

rhythm

rhythmic

There 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 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 of a song

Let’s 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 Sew

Do re miDo re mi

Tea 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-Do

Scan the text for the two questions.

1.What 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 cinqua

in, haiku and Tang poems.

Forms of Poems

Characteristics

__________________

Have strong ___________________ Have a lot of repetitionEasy to learn and to _______

Read the text carefully and fill in

the blanks.

Nursery

rhymes

rhythm

and rhyme

recite

_________

Easy to writeRepeat _______ and some rhyme while other do not

Cinquain

Easy to writeMade up of ________ Conveys a _________ picture in just a few words

List poems phrases

five linesstrong

Haiku

A Japanese form of poetryMade up of ___________ Easy to writeGives a _____ pictureCreates a special feeling in just a few words

Tang Poems

The ___________ have a free form.

translations

17 syllables

clear

Hush, little baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s

going to buy you a mockingbird.

If that mockingbird 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-grass.

2. Read and answer questions.

If that looking-grass gets broke,

Papa’s going to buy you a billy-goat.

If that billy-goat runs away,

Papa’s going to buy you another tod

ay.

1. What is the baby’s father going to

buy if the mirror gets broken?

If the mirror gets broken, the baby’s fa

ther will buy a billy-goat instead.

2. What is the baby’s father going to do

if the goat runs away?

He’s 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 father’s love for his baby.

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 a coffin drop down dead,

I saw a fish-pond all on fireI saw a fish-pond all on fire

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.

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 we’d had just a few more minutes,

If we had trained harder,

If Ben had passed the ball to Joe,

If we’d had thousands of fans screaming,

Our first football match

If I hadn’t taken my eye off the ball,

If we hadn’t stayed up so late the

night before,

If we hadn’t take it easy,

If we hadn’t run out of energy.

We should have won …

If we’d been better!

1. What is the poem C about?

2. Why didn’t the 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 didn’t win because they didn’t

have enough time; they didn’t have

thousands of fans screaming; they

stayed up too late the night before;

they ran out of energy.

2. Why didn’t the players win the match?

No. The author doesn’t believe his excus

es, because at the end of the poem the

speaker admits that they just did not

play well enough to win …

3. Does the author really believe his or her

excuses? How do you know?

Brother

Beautiful, athletic

Teasing, shouting, laughing

Friend and enemy too Mine

Summer

Sleepy, salty

Drying, drooping, dreading

Week in, week out

Endless

1. What are the poems about?

2. Do the authors like the subjects? Give

your reasons.

Poem D is a description of a lovely

brother.

Poem E is a description of hot and

boring summer.

Poem D: Yes, the author likes his sub

ject. 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 doesn’t like

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 blossom

Is coming back to the branch.

Look, a butterfly!

Snow having melted.

The whole village is brimful

Of happy children.

What 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, tran

sformed 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. 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 trust

anger hate sorrow

1. A woman’s 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 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.

3. Read the text carefully and choose t

he best answers.

1. What is the baby’s father going to buy

if the mockingbird won’t 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.

3. Which of the 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.

A SPRING MORNING

I awake light-hearted this morning of

spring, Everywhere round me the sing

ing of birds But now I remember the

night, the storm, And I wonder how m

any 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 scissor blade. By Meng Haoran

In the quiet night

So bright a gleam on the foot of my b

ed--

Could there have been a frost already?

Lifting myself to look, I found that it

was moonlight.

Sinking back again, I thought sudden

ly of my home.

By Li Bai

1. Read the text aloud and

recite Paragraph 1.

2. Prepare your favorite Tang

poem (s) and translate

it/them into English.

Sample translation of Tang poems

COMING HOME

I left home young, I return old.

Speaking as then, but with hair grow t

hin; and my children, meeting me, do

not know me.

They smile and say:

Stranger, where do you come from?

ON THE MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY

All alone in a foreign land.

I’m twice as homesick on this day,

when brothers carry dogwood up the

mountain, each of them a branch– and

my branch missing.