Unit 2 Poems

Those sweet memories

Try to think back and remember some poems from your early childhood.

潮州湘桥好风流，十八梭船廿四洲， 廿四楼台甘四样，二只鉎牛

一只溜 .

湘子桥

天顶一粒星，地下开书斋，书斋门，未曾开， 阿奴哭欲吃油堆，油堆未曾熟，阿奴拼欲吃猪肉，猪肉未曾割，阿奴拼欲吃蕃葛，蕃葛未曾柳， 阿奴拼欲吃阿老爹两杯酒，酒未激，欲吃粟， 粟未挨，欲吃鸡，鸡未抬，欲吃梨，梨未摘， 阿奴哭了白白歇，白白歇。

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，恰是一江春水向东流。

——— 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 what time of year, It would be tonight in the palace on high.

水调歌头明月几时有？把酒问青天 不知天上宫阙，

今夕是何年？

——— 苏轼

Translated by Xu Yuanchong

I look for her in vain.When all at once I turn my head,I find her there where lantern light is dimly shed.

Translated by Xu Yuanchong

众里寻他千百度， 蓦然回首， 那人却在， 灯火阑珊处。

青玉案 . 元夕

--- 辛弃疾

Brain Storming Why do people write poems? In small group make a list of these reasons.

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 lyrics of a song

A Few Simple Forms of English Poems

Go through the passage quickly and answer the following questions.

What five kinds of poems does the reading passage talk about?

What is the main topic of the reading passage?

Topic sentence

Some simple forms of English poems.

nursery rhymes, list poems, the cinquain, haiku and Tang poems

Simple forms of poems

Para 2:Nursery rhymesPara 3: List poemsPara 4: Cinquain poems

Para 5: Haiku poemsPara 6: Tang poems

Para 1:Brief introduction

Nursery rhymes

Read Para 2 and find out the characteristics of nursery rhymes.strong rhythm strong rhyme a lot of repetition

Watch the flash and try to clap the beat.

Circle the pair of rhyming words.

List poems

Read Para 3 and answer the following question.What are list poems like?

repeat phrases

Some have rhyme while others do not.

Listen and circle the pair of rhyming words in Poem B.

Cinquain poemsRead Para 4 and answer the following question.How many lines is the cinquain made up of?five lines

Listen and observe Poem D and E carefully. Try to find out the characteristics of the two poems.

Haiku poems

Read Para 5 carefully and find out the similarity and difference between Cinquain and Haiku .

Similarity:

Difference:

a clear pictureeasy to write

convey a special feeling5 lines

17 syllables

Enjoy two poems

Poem H: Tang Poem

1.What is the story that the poem

tells? Tell the story in your own

words.

2.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

Read this poem and answer the following questions.

Chinese Version of Poem H

望夫石

山头日日风复雨，

望夫处，江悠悠。化为石，不回头。

行人归来石应语。

王建

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 from that spot and never speaking, while the river continues to flow and the wind and rain come and go.2. Her feelings

1.Tell the story in your own

words.

loneliness, love, trust, sorrow

Forms of Poems

Characteristics

Nursery Rhymes

List Poems

Strong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to recite

Repeated phrases and some rhyme

What’ve learned today?

Forms of Poems

Characteristics

Cinquain

Haiku

Made up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words.Made up of 17 syllables; Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words.

What’ve learned today?

Forms

of

Poems

Characteristics

Tang

Poems

The translations

have a free form.

What’ve learned today?

Discussion : which poem do you like best? Give reasons.

Assignment

Practice reading aloud the poems in the passage

Choose your favorite form of poems and write one on your own. Tomorrow let’s share your works.

Joy and Sharing

More about poems

Share your own poems in groups and tell the feelings you want to express.

Please read aloud your poems in front of the class.

Listening task

Ben, Sam, Sally

Listen for the first time and finish Ex 1 on P53.

Listen for the second time and finish Ex 2.

Sam Ben Sally

What

kind of

poem is

the

student

going to

write

cinquain haiku list poem

Sam Ben Sally

What topic

is the

student

going to

write

about?

nature

the students in her class

Ben

Three students, Ben, Sam and

Sally, are talking about their

poetry homework. Listen to

their conversation.

Listening text

BEN: When are you going to do your poetry homework, Sam?

SAM: I don’t know, how long have we got?

SAM: Oh no – I suppose I’ll have a go at it this weekend. What kind of poem are you planning to write?

BEN: W ell, I think I’ll have try writing some haiku poems.

SAM: W hat are those?BEN: Sam, don’t you remember –we l

earnt about them in class. They’re those Japanese poems made up of 17 syllables.

SAM: Oh yeah. Sounds a bit difficult to me. What are you going to write about?

BEN: W ell, usually haiku are about nature so I’m going to go and sit in the park tomorrow and just observe life. I’ll just see what images come into my mind.

SALLY: Hi, Sam, hi Ben. What are you talking about?

SAM: That horrible poetry homework we have to do .

SALLY: Actually, I’m looking forward to doing it.

SAM: Well, I always knew you were crazy!

BEN: What are you going to do yours on, Sally?

SALLY: I’m going to try one of those list poems and write a line about each person in the class.

SAM: You can leave me out of it!SALLY: Oh Sam, it’s going to be funny.

I’m going to see if I can make the lines rhyme. It’ll be fun.

BEN: So Sam, are you feeling inspired now. Look, there are lots of different kinds of poems you could try – a haiku, a list poem – hey, what about a cinquain – you know those five line poems.

SAM: Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about those. Yeah , that’s what I’ll do – and guess what I’m going to do it on?

BEN: W hat?SAM: Y ou !BEN: (laugh) Oh no !

StarIf you are

A love compassionate,You will walk with us this year.

We face a glacial distance, who are hereHuddld

At your feet.

A Christmas Tree

William Shelly Burford

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

Pie Problem

If I eat one more piece of pie, I’ll die!

If I can’t have one more piece of pie, I’ll die!

So since it’s all decided I must die,

I might as well have one more piece of pie.

MMM-OOOH-MY!

Chomp-Gulp-Bye.

Assignment

Read the passage A Few Simple Forms of English Poems at least three times and mark out the points you think difficult to understand.

Preview Reading 2 I’ve Saved the Summer on P14.