Do you know any poets in and out of China? 杜甫 孟浩然

Do you know any poets in and out of China?

杜甫

孟浩然

王维

苏东坡

李白

ShelleyOde to the West Wind

William Shakespeare

Do you know any English poems?Now, let’s enjoy the following one.

The reading passage discusses five kinds of poems. What are they? Listen to the passage

Five kinds of poems

Nursery rhymes童谣

Cinquain五行诗

List poems清单诗

Tang poems唐诗

Haiku 俳句诗

Read the introduction of each form of the poems and find out their features.

Forms of poems

Features

Nurseryrhymes

A common type of _________ poetry._________ but __________ languageRhyme, have strong ____________ _______________.May not ____________ and even seem contradictory.Easy to _____________.

List poems

Have a _______ line length, and _________ phrases.Have a _______ and a _______.Some ______ while others do not.

learn and recite

pattern rhythm

rhyme

children’sConcrete imaginative

rhythm and alot of repetition

make sense

flexiblerepeated

Cinquain

Easy for students to writeMade up of ____________Conveys ________________ in just a few words.

Haiku

A _________ form of poetry.Made up of ______________.Easy to write.Gives a clear _________.Create ________________ using a minimum of words.

Tang poems

__________ from the Chinese.

a strong picture

Translations

17 syllables

Japanese

five lines

picture

a special feeling

Let’s enjoy some of these poems.

Find the words that rhyme:

word sing broke

mockingbird ring

brass

Looking-glassbilly-goat

away

today

Poem A

• Poem C• 1. What sport do you think the speaker is

writing about? • 2. Did his or her team win the game?

• 3. What excuses did the author give for their failure?

footballNo

Didn’t have enough time; didn’t trained harder ； didn’t have thousands of fans screaming; stayed up too late, took it easy and ranout of energy.

Poem H

Circle one or more of the feelings

below that you think the woman h

as.

loneliness joy love trust

anger hate sorrow

望夫石望夫石望夫处，江悠悠 ,化为石，不回头。山头日日风复雨，行人归来石应语。

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。

Enjoy more Tang poems

A SPRING MORNING

I awake light-hearted this morning of spring,

Everywhere round me the singing of birds Bu

t now I remember the night, the storm, And I

wonder how many blossoms were broken.

(by Meng Haoran)

finish the form on Page 9.

Which poem A B

C

D E F

G

H

describes a person?

tells a story?

describes an aspect of a season?

is about sport?is about things that don’t make sense?

is recited to a baby?

describes a river scene?

has rhyming words at the end of lines?

repeats words and phrases?