选修6 Unit2 Warming up.ppt

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? All the following make small children like nursery rhymes EXCEPT: A. strong rhyme B. strong rhythm C. much meaning D. a lot of repetition 2. What kinds of poems can be written by the students themselves easily? A. List poems and cinquain. B. Tang poetry and cinquain. C. Haiku and nursery rhymes. D. Cinquain and nursery rhymes. 3. Children who learn and recite nursery rhymes can easily ____ A. form the ability of writing poems B. learn about their language C. make progress in studies D. produce love to their parents 4. Which of the following are English speakers interested in copying? A. Chinese and Japanese poems B. Chinese and French poems C. Japanese and American poems D. Japanese and Russian poems Discussion : which poem do you like best? Give reasons. Choose one of these forms, and try to write a poem in groups, and tell why you write the poem. Nursery rhyme List poem Cinquain Haiku Tang poem A Grain of Sand William Blake To see a world in a grain of sand,?????? ? And a heaven in a wild flower,???????????? Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,??　? And eternity in an hour .??? 一花一世界，一沙一天国，君掌盛无边，刹那含永劫。 ——宗白华 * * If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Shelley--- Ode to the west wind (西风颂) Unit2 Poems Quiz in Chinese traditional poems Can you recite the Chinese traditional poems according to their English translation? Let’s have 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 Translated by Xu Yuanchong 《虞美人》 How long will the bright moon appear? Wine-cup in hand, I ask the sky. I do not know