人教版高中英语Book 6 unit2 Poems (warming up and reading)教学课件 .pptVIP

1. Read and listen to the passage. Which poem do you like best? Give reasons. 2. Answer these questions about the reading passage. What is the main topic of the reading passage? What five kinds of poems does the reading passage talk about? Which two poems have rhyming lines? Circle the pairs of rhyming words. Some simple forms of English poems Poem A and B. Each poem has four beats a line. Nursery rhymes, List poems, the Cinquain, Haiku and Tang poems. Listen to the tape and find the words that rhyme: word sing broke mockingbird ring brass Looking-glass billy-goat away today Poem A Which poems give you one clear picture in your mind? Most probably Poems F, G. Read the passage carefully to get enough details and finish the exercises. 1. What is the baby’s father going to buy if the mirror goes broken? 2. What is the baby’s father going to do if goat runs away? He’s going to buy the baby a billy-goat. He’s going to buy the baby another billy-goat. Poem A Poem C 1. What sport do you think the speaker is writing about? 2. Did his or her team win the game? 3. Why didn’t the players win? Write down three excuses that the speaker gives. 4. Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuses? How do you know? 5. Do you ever give excuses when you don’t win or do something? football No Didn’t have enough time; didn’t have thousands of fans screaming; stayed up too late,and ran out of energy. No. Because at the end of the poem the speaker admitted that they didn’t play well enough to win. Poem D,E 1. What subject is the speaker writing about? 2. Does the speaker like the subject? Give a reason for your answer. The speaker is writing about his / her brother in Poem D. In Poem E, the writer is writing about Summer. What is the story that the poem tells? Tell the story in your own words A woman’s husband has gone away. The woman waits for him by the river where she last saw him. she waits and waits never moving form that