book6unit2Poems李懿

1 Unit 2 Poems Reading A Few Simple Forms of English Poems Danzhou No 1 Middle School Li Yi Teaching aims 1 To know about the forms and characteristics of some English poems 2 To learn how to write a simple poem 3 To foster the reading ability 4 To arouse students great interest in English poems Teaching important points 1 To learn different reading skills 2 To know how to write a simple poem Teaching difficult points 1 To write a poem 2 To learn to appreciate English poems Teaching methods 1 Task based teaching and learning 2 Writing Teaching procedure Step 1 Greeting Step 2 Lead in Play a song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and ask students to sing with it Step 3 Pre reading 1 Have Ss read Twinkle Twinkle Little Star again and find out rhymes of each sentence Twinkle twinkle little star a How I wonder what you are a Up above the world so high ai Like a diamond in the sky ai 2 Tell Ss Rhymes depend on sound not spelling And rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry Step 4 While reading 1 Fast reading Answer the following questions 1 What is the passage mainly about The text is about a few simple forms of English poems 2 How many forms of English poems are mentioned in the passage What are they Five forms Nursery rhymes List poems Cinquain Haiku Tang 2 poems 2 Careful reading Find out the characteristics of each form of English poetry Forms Which poem or poems Characteristics Nursery rhymes A concrete but imaginative strong rhythm a lot of repetitions easy to learn and recite List poemsB C a flexible line length repeated phrases CinquainD E made up of 5 lines HaikuF G a Japanese form made up of 17 syllables easy to write convey a strong and clear picture and create a special feeling Tang poetry H from China After Ss answer the characteristics of one poem Ss and T together appreciate the poem to know the characteristics clearly 1 Poem A Listen to poem A and find out its repetitions and rhymes Listen again and sing the song with the beats together 2 Poem B C Read them aloud with the tape and find out their repeated phrases and rhymes 3 Poem D E Read them aloud together and answer What are poem D and E about Do the authors like the subjects Why 4 The structures of Cinquain and Haiku Cinquain read poem D E again and match the descriptions with each line Line 1 a word that gives another name for the subject Line 2 three verbs ending with ing that describe the subject s actions Line 3 a noun that names the subject of the poem Line 4 four words that give the writer s opinions of feelings about the subject Line 5 two adjectives that describe the subject Haiku read poem F G aloud together and find out how many syllables 3 there are in each line Line 1 5 syllables Line 2 7 syllables Line 3 5 syllables Step 5 Post reading 1 Guessing Show some poems on the screen and ask students to guess what forms they are 2 Writing 1 To My Parents Thank you 2 What is love You were always there Love is To me Love is You were always there To me 3 I would If I But most important If I You were always there 4 Mother Cinquain To me Step 6 Homework 1 Choose one of five forms to write your own poem 2 Do Ex 2 on page11 in the