POEM望庐山瀑布（一）.docVIP

Unit 4 A Garden of Poems The First Period Warming-up Listening Speaking Teaching Aims: 1.Talk about rhymes, songs, limericks and poems to raise the students’ interest in poetry. 2.Improveing the students’ listening ability. 3.Introduce some poems to the students. Teaching Difficult points: 1.To teach the students how to grasp the detailed information to finish the listening task. 2.How to make every students active in this lesson. Teaching Aids: 1.a computer 2.a projector Teaching Procedures: Step I Greetings and Lead in. T: Remind the students famous Chinese poems and Chinese poets. Get them to name some famous Chinese poets and recite some famous poems. Do you like poems? Which Chinese poet/ poem do you like best? Why?(romantic, form of poems, special patterns of rhythm and rhyme, use surprising images, absence of rhyme, nature poem, style and atmosphere) What words will you need to talk about poets and poetry? Do you know any English poet/ poem? Can you recite any? What about English songs? Do you often sing English songs? (Get some individuals to sing part of their favourite English songs and make them realize that different songs express different feelings.) Is there any connection between English songs and English poems? Step II Warming up. 1) Listen and read the rhyme Good, better, best! Never have it rest! Till good is better! And better, best! 2) Listen and read the limerick. People laugh and people cry. Some give up, some always try. Some say hi while some say bye. Others may forget you but never I. Ok. Now please open your books and turn to page 25. Let’s enjoy two more limericks. 3)Read the limericks and ask “What is the pattern of each poem? I. While reading: According to the writer, when do we sing? How do we feel about a good song? What does the writer think of good songs? Who gave the writer some advice on how to enjoy poetry? What was the advice? How did the writer learn to enjoy the poem? II. Post-reading Do songs and poems have something in