必修5unit2Reading.ppt

1、Reading POEMS,How many poets do you know? Can you remember any poems you have read in school, either in Chinese or in English?,What are the characteristics of poems? Can you give me some examples? Poems have beats. They may rhyme or may not rhyme but they have to have rhythms. This beat is not alway

2、s obvious, but its usually there.,poem,poet,poetry,rhyme,rhythm,rhythmic,Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry. Without rhythm, there wouldnt be poems.,Twinkle twinkle little star How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky.,强 弱 强 弱强 弱 强,构成一个韵节的四种情况: 强+弱, 强+弱弱

3、弱+强, 弱+强,唐诗分五言,七言。根据韵节来分 英诗可分为单韵诗、双韵诗、三韵诗至八韵诗。,Why do people write poems? People write poems to tell a story to express feelings to make others laugh to tell the life or friendship to delight the kids to tell stories to describe the seasons or scenes for entertainment as the lyric of a song,Lets enj

4、oy an English poem in the form of a song: Do-Re-Me and try to find out the rhymes and the rhythm.,Doe a deer a female deer Ray a drop of golden sun Me a name I call myself Far a long long way to run Sew a needle pulling thread La a note to follow Sew,Do re mi,Tea a drink with jam and bread That will

5、 bring us back to Doe oh-oh-oh That will bring us back to Doe Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti Do-So-Do,1. Do you have a favourite poem in Chinese or in English? Why is it your favourite poem?,Chinese Ancient Poets,Qu Yuan,Du Fu,Li Bai,离骚,春望,静夜思,1. Do you have a favourite poem in Chinese or in English? Why is i

6、t your favourite poem?,Chinese Ancient Poets,Qu Yuan,Du Fu,Li Bai,离骚,春望,静夜思,1. Do you have a favourite poem in Chinese or in English? Why is it your favourite poem?,Chinese Ancient Poets,Qu Yuan,Du Fu,Li Bai,离骚,春望,静夜思,Chinese Ancient Poets,Wang Wei,Bai Juyi,Su Dongpo,相思,草 暮江吟,念奴娇,Chinese Modern Poet

7、s,Guo Moruo 凤凰涅槃,Wen Yiduo 死水,Ai Qing 大堰河,Chinese Modern Poets,雨巷,Dai Wangsu,再别康桥,Xu Zhimo,致橡树,Shu Ting,A Few Simple Forms Of English Poems,Ancient poets in England,William Shakespeare (15641616) 154 sonnets,George Gordon Byron (17881824 ) Don Juan唐璜,Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822) Ode to the West W

8、ind,Other famous poets in foreign countries,Robert Frost (18741963) America荒野 （Desert Places）,Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882） America,Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) India Jitanjali（吉檀枷利） Stray Bird（飞鸟集）,A Few simple forms of English Poems,Reading,Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.,Nurs

9、ery rhymes,rhythm and rhyme,recite,List poems,phrases,five lines,strong,translations,17 syllables,clear,Hush, little baby, dont say a word, Papas going to buy you a mockingbird. If that mockingbird wont sing, Papas going to buy you a diamond ring. If that diamond ring turns to brass, Papas going to

10、buy you a looking-grass.,Read and answer these questions.,If that looking-grass gets broke, Papas going to buy you a billy-goat. If that billy-goat runs away, Papas going to buy you another today.,1. What is the babys father going to buy if the mirror gets broken? If the mirror gets broken, the baby

11、s father will buy a billy-goat instead. 2. What is the babys father going to do if the goat runs away? Hes going to buy the baby another billy-goat.,I saw a fish-pond all on fire I saw a house bow to a squire, I saw a person twelve-feet high, I saw a cottage in the sky, I saw a balloon made of lead,

12、 I saw a coffin drop down dead,I saw a fish-pond all on fire,I saw two sparrows run a race, I saw two horses making lace, I saw a girl just like a cat, I saw a kitten wear a hat, I saw a man who saw these too, And said though strange they all were true.,We should have won If Jack had scored that goa

13、l, If wed had just a few more minutes, If we had trained harder, If Ben had passed the ball to Joe, If wed had thousands of fans screaming,Our first football match,If I hadnt taken my eye off the ball, If we hadnt stayed up so late the night before, If we hadnt take it easy, If we hadnt run out of e

14、nergy. We should have won If wed been better!,What is the poem about? 2. Did the authors team win the match? 3. Why didnt the players win the match? 4. Does the author really believe his or her excuses? How do you know?,Sample answers: 1. The speaker is writing about football. 2. No, his or her team

15、 didnt win. 3. The players didnt win because: Jack didnt score that goal; they didnt have enough time; they hadnt train hard.,4. No, because at the end of the poem the speaker admits that they just did not play well enough to win,Brother Beautiful, athletic, Teasing, shouting, laughing Friend and en

16、emy too Mine,Summer Sleepy, salty, Drying, drooping, dreading, Week in, week out, Endless,1. What are the poems about? 2. Do the authors like the subjects? Give your reasons.,1. his /her brother summer 2. Yes. Although the speaker describes a couple of negative aspects of his/ her brother, the reade

17、r can feel the affection that the speaker feels for his/ her brother.,No. The reader gets the feeling that the speaker cannot wait until the summer is over. The words drooping, dreading, week in, week out and endless convey this feeling.,Poem H,What is the story that the poem tells? Tell the story i

18、n your own words. Circle one or more of the feelings below that you think the woman has. Give reasons for your answers: loneliness joy love trust anger hate sorrow,Where she awaits her husband on and on the river flows. Never looking back, transformed into stone. Day by day upon the mountain top, wi

19、nd and rain revolve. Should the journeyer return, this stone would utter speech.,望夫石,望夫处，江悠悠, 化为石，不回头。 山头日日风复雨， 行人归来石应语。,1. A womans husband has gone away. The woman waits for him by the river where she last saw him. She waits and waits, never moving from that spot and never speaking, while the rive

20、r continues to flow and the wind and rain come and go.,2.The woman has the feelings of: Loneliness: she was alone watching her husband on the mountain top. Love: she waited year after year despite wind and rain. Trust: she believed her husband would come back one day. Sorrow: year after year, she wa

21、ited and waited without seeing any hope of her husbands coming back, she was very sad.,Read the text carefully and choose the best answers. What is the babys father going to buy if the mockingbird wont sing in Poem A? A. A billy-goat. B. A diamond ring. C. A looking-glass. D. A computer. 2. Which of

22、 the following is NOT mentioned in Poem B? A fish-pond on fire. A cottage in the sky. C. A girl like a cat. D. A person ten-feet high.,B,D,3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Poem F? A child. B. A branch. C. A butterfly. D. A blossom. 4. What kind of feeling is conveyed in Poem G? Sorrow.

23、B. Love. C. Happiness. D. Loneliness.,A,C,Enjoy more Tang poems,A SPRING MORNING I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, Everywhere round me the singing of birds But now I remember the night, the storm, And I wonder how many blossoms were broken. (by Meng Haoran),The Willow The slender tree is dressed in emerald all about, A thousand branches droop like fringes made of jade. But do you know by whom these slim leaves are cut out? The wind of early spring i