[名校联盟]广东省揭阳一中高三英语复习：b6u2warmingupandreading.pptVIP

Discuss the reasons why people write poems. The reading passage discusses five kinds of poems. They are: Task 2 Scanning: Scan the poems and fill in the following form. 1. Did his team win the game? 2. How many excuses did they make to explain why they didn’t win? 3. Does the speaker really believe his own excuse? * 学.科.网 学科网 学.科.网 Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry. Without rhythm, there wouldn’t be poems. Find out something special at the end of the lines. rhyme (押韵) 1. Do you remember any little poems you learned? either in Chinese or in English? Can you recite any? Quiz in Chinese traditional poems. 2. Can you recite the Chinese traditional poems according to their English translation? Let’s have a competition. If you would ask me how my sorrow has increased, Just see the over-brimming river flowing east! 问君能有几多愁，恰似一江春水向东流。 ———李煜 《虞美人》 How long will the bright moon appear? Wine-cup in hand, I ask the sky. I do not know what time of year, It would be tonight in the palace on high. 水调歌头 明月几时有？把酒问青天。 不知天上宫阙，今夕是何年？ ——— 苏轼 I look for her in vain. When all at once I turn my head, I find her there where lantern light is dimly shed. 众里寻他千百度， 蓦然回首， 那人却在， 灯火阑珊处。 青玉案. 元夕 --- 辛弃疾 Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, To bring me my shadow and make us three. 举杯邀明月，对影成三人。 Wildfire never quite consumes them -- They are tall once more in the spring wind. 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。 to tell a story to express feelings to make others laugh to create images in the readers to express a point of view to make the reader experience the sight, sounds, smells, feel and taste of something to create a mood to play with words …. love