广东东莞高级中学王曼.ppt

* 广东东莞高级中学　王　曼 ?? (P7) Curriculum focus Cross-cultural awareness discovering the differences between Chinese and English poems Language knowledge understanding the rhythm and beauty of English poems Pre-reading Poems came into being in China more than one thousand years ago. Some described the beauty of nature; some told moving stories; some showed the feelings of poets… 1. What kind of poems do you like? Can you recite some of them? 黄河远上白云间， 一片孤城万仞山。羌笛何须怨杨柳， 春风不度玉门关。  劝君莫惜金缕衣， 劝君惜取少年时。花开堪折直须折， 莫待无花空折枝。 云想衣裳花想容， 春风拂槛露华浓。若非群玉山头见， 会向瑶台月下逢。 2. How much do you know about English poems? 3. Do you still remember the first time you read an English poem? 4. Do you think it is as attractive as a Chinese poem? 5. Enjoy the following poem and tell us what you think about it. Life is Beauty Life is beauty, admire it.Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it.Life is a challenge, meet it.Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it.Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. 1. Find out words and expressions that the author uses to describe English poems. While reading remarkable, music-like, evoke feelings of a dream world, fresh, romantic, deep, considered, beautiful, wonderful, candlelight in the dark 2. Choose the best answer 1) The passage is written to _____. show the author’s passion for English poetry introduce famous English poems C. teach readers how to read English poems D. tell life stories of famous English poets 2) Whose poems remind the author about the beauty of nature? Yeats’s. B. Wordsworth’s. C. Shakespeare’s. D. Rossetti’s. 3) According to the author, Yeats changed his style of poetry because _____. life was hard for him during WWI