人教版英语选修6 Unit2 Poem(ppt).ppt

Unit 2 Poem Warm up Task 1. Ss in pairs talk about Chinese and foreign poems or songs they learned before. Ss try to match the following information. Du Fu Tang Dynasty Fan Zhongyan Song Dynasty Meng Haoran Nowadays Guo Moruo Nowadays Mao Zedong Tang Dynasty Byron America Shelly England Emerson England Tagore Germany Goethe India Task 2. Ss discuss and answer the following questions. Why do people write poems? 2. People from different countries write different kinds of poems. Do you have a favourite poem in Chinese? Why is it your favourite poem? Do you have a favourite poem in English? Why is it your favourite poem? Task 3: First reading: Ss skim the poems and fill in the following form. Task 4. Second reading: Ss read and answer the questions of Ex 2 on page 11. * √ H √ G √ F √ E √ D √ C √ B A Is about things that don’t make sense? Is about sport? Describes an aspect of a season? Tells a story Describes a person? Which poem H G F E D √ C √ √ B √ √ √ A Repeats words or phases? Has rhyming words at the end of lines? Describes a river scene? Is recited to a baby? Which poem Sample answers: The main topic of the reading passage: different forms of English poems. Nursery rhymes; list poems; cinquain; haiku; Tang poems. Poem A has a strong rhythm. Poems A and B have rhyming lines. Poem F gives a clear picture in the mind. Task 5. Third reading: Ss read again and fill in the chart. Features Tang poems Haiku Cinquain List poems Nursery rhymes Forms of poems Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot