Senior English for China Student’s Book6: 
Unit2 A Few simple forms of English Poems
The First Period Reading:
Teaching goals:
1. Target language .
a. Important words and phrases:
poem, recite, aspect, rhyme, rhythm, nursery rhyme, diamond, endless, branch, translation, transform, joy, anger, make up of
b. important sentence structure:
Some poems tell a story or ... Others ... P10 
They delight small children because ... P10
2. Ability goals.
Enable the students to know more about the poems, including the reason why people write poems and the simple types of poems.  
3. Learning ability goals.
Enable the students to learn more about poems. 
Teaching important & difficult points : The forms of poems & how to master the meaning of English poems.
Teaching methods：Discussion. Individual work & group work.
 Teaching aids :A computer and a projector.
Teaching procedures & ways .
Step Ⅰ Revision 
Talk about poems or songs the students learned before. First, show the following to the students. (present them in audio-visual form.)
   
夜雪 李白
已讶衾枕冷，复见窗户明。
夜深知雪重，时闻折竹声。

有的人活着，他已经死了；
有的人死了，他还活着。
有的人       骑在人民头上：
“呵，我多伟大！”
 
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Because I could not stop for death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
T: Who are the people in the pictures? 
S: Li Bai, Zang Kejia and Emily Dickinson.
T: They are all famous poets in history. And they all wrote great poems. Do you know what poems are?
S: Words and their sounds organized in a special way to express emotions. 
T: Poems are a kind of literature. Chinese has a long history of writing poems. People who write poems are poets. (Write down the word if necessary.) Do you know some poets in China or in other countries?
S: In China, we have many famous poets in history. Such as Qu Yuan, Cao Zhi, Bai Juyi, Li Bai, Meng Haoran, Du Fu, Fan Zhongyan, Guo Moruo, Mao Zedong, and so on. In foreign countries, there are also many well-known poets, such as Yeats, Byron, Shelly in England; Tagore in India; Goethe in Germany; Emerson in America, etc. 
T: Do you still remember some of the poems or songs you learned before?
Sample versions: 
Talk about why people write poems with the students. 
T: There are many reasons why people write poems. Some want to pass on some information, some tell a story, some express feeling of love, anger, joy, etc. We’ve learned a lot of poems before, especially in Chinese. But what are the reasons why people write poems? Work in groups and list some.
Sample answers:
People write poems: to express one’s hopes and intentions; to call up people to do something; to practice writing; to pour out one’s feelings; to show dissatisfaction or praise ...
Words and their sounds organized in a special way to express emotions. 
T: Poems are a kind of literature. Chinese has a long history of writing poems. People who write poems are poets. (Write down the word if necessary.) Do you know some poets in China or in other countries?
S: In China, we have many famous poets in history. Such as Qu Yuan, Cao Zhi, Bai Juyi, Li Bai, Meng Haoran, Du Fu, Fan Zhongyan, Guo Moruo, Mao Zedong, and so on. In foreign countries, there are also many well-known poets, such as Yeats, Byron,
Step1 Lead in: 
Task 1: Talk about rhythm and rhyme. 
Task 1: Talk about the kinds of poems.
Words and their sounds organized in a special way to express emotions. Poems are a kind of literature…
Twinkle twinkle little star     
强 弱  强 弱 强弱 强
Task 3: Ask and Answer.
1. How many poets do you know? Can you remember any poems?
Chinese ancient poets: Chinese modern poets；ancient poets in England…
2. What are the characteristics of poems? Beats, rhyme, rhythms.
3. 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 .
To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness
The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long . 
When winter comes, can spring be far behind? 
StepIII Group Discussion(translation)
Discuss the translation of< 静夜思>& A spring morning(by Meng Haoran)唐 孟浩然
Night Thoughts静夜思( Tr. Herbert A. Giles)
I wake, and moonbeams play around my bed,   床前明月光，
Glittering like hoar-frost to my wandering eyes; 疑是地上霜
Up towards the glorious moon I raise my head,  举头望明月，
Then lay me down---and thoughts of home arise. 底头思故乡
        On a Quiet Night (TR. S. Obata)                              
I saw the moonlight before my couch, 
And wondered if it were not the frost on the ground. 
I raised my head and looked out on the mountain noon, 
I bowed my head and though of my far-off home. 
    In the Quiet Night (Tr. Witter Bynner)
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed--   
Could there have been a frost already?   
Lifting my head to look,    
I found that it was moonlight.   
Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home. 
A spring morning(by Meng Haoran)唐 孟浩然
I awake light-hearted this morning of spring, 春眠不觉晓，
 Everywhere round me the singing of birds—处处闻啼
But now I remember the night, the storm, 夜来风雨声，
And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.花落知多少。
If you were the only girl in the world             I would say some wonderful things to you
Nothing else would matter in the world today      There would be such wonderful things to do
We could go on loving in the same old way!       If you were the only girl in the world
A garden of Eden just made for two              And I were the only boy! (by Clifford Grey)
And I were the only boy!
倘若世间唯有卿   倘若世间唯有君 
凡尘俗世 亦可忘却   执子之手 与子偕老
 与卿共诉相思语     与卿共渡春宵刻 
 倘若世间唯有卿     倘若世间唯有君
Step IV: listen and master the important information of the passage.
1.Read the passage and fill in the blanks.
Forms 
of Poems
Characteristics
1.Nursery rhymes
                         rhythm and rhyme
Have a lot of repetition
Easy to learn and to 
3 recite.

4.List poems  
Easy to write
Repeat 5 __phrases and 
some rhyme while other do 
not

Cinquain 
Easy to write
Made up of 6 five lines.
Conveys a 7 strong.
picture in just a few words

Haiku
A Japanese form of poetry
Made up of 8 17 syllables
Easy to write
Gives a 9clear picture
Creates a special feeling in just a few words

Tang Poems
The 10 translations have a free form.

2 Analyze the Poem H
What is the story that the poem tells? Tell the story in 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, wind 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 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.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 waited and waited without seeing any hope of her husband’s coming back, she was very sad.
3.Read the text carefully and choose the best answers.
1.What is the baby’s father going to buy if the mockingbird won’t sing in Poem A?
A. A billy-goat.    B. A diamond ring.   
C. A looking-glass.    D. A computer.                (B)
2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Poem B?
A. A fish-pond on fire.      B. A cottage in the sky.
C. A girl like a cat.          D. A person ten-feet high.    (D)
3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Poem F?
A. A child.          B. A branch.
C. A butterfly.          D. A blossom.                 (A)
4. What kind of feeling is conveyed in Poem G?
A.Sorrow.            B. Love.   
C. Happiness.          D. Loneliness.                 (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 is sharp as scissor blade.
                                      By Meng Haoran    
StepV：Homework.
1. Read the text aloud and recite Paragraph 1.
2. Prepare your favorite Tang poem (s) and translate it/them into English.
Sample translation of Tang poems:
COMING HOME
I left home young, I return old.
Speaking as then, but with hair grow thin; and my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: 
Stranger, where do you come from?