Teaching plan of Unit 4
A Garden of Poems
(Designed to the periods)

Teaching aims and demands
1.Topic: Talk about English poetry
2.Vocabulary and useful expressions:
Poetry, poet, poem, recite, loneliness, sadness, glory, pattern, belong, absence, translate, shade, extraordinary, idiom, stupidity, dust, mood, rue, length, apart, insane, guideline, essay, collection, recommend, contribute, dare, follow, avoid, among , as, worth, call up, belong to, come into being, contribute to, hear of/about, too… to , a number of, at the beginning of. Be supposed to do/be, be well-known for, get through, used to do.
3.Function:
Practise expressing intention and decision:
I’m interested to…
I’m interested but…
I think I might want…
I want to….
I’d like to,,,,
I think it will be too difficult to…
I think it will be boring…
I hope to find….
I don’t know much about… but….
I never heard of… so….
I’m not interested in…. so….
4.Grammar:
The Past Participle used as Adverbial
过去分词用作状语
a.Greatly surprised, he couldn’t say a word.
b.When completed, the canal will connect the river with the lake.
c.Coated with sugar, bananas will taste better.
d.Even if invited, I wouldn’t go.
e.He stared at me, astonished.
5. Write about a poem

Teaching procedure:
Period 1.
Step 1.Warming up
1.Brainstorming:
Find as many words as the students can find to talk about poets and poetry:
Limerick, sonnets, Shakespeare, happiness, vividness, sadness, imagination,etc
2.Following the Step 3 of the warming-up on page 25.
3.pay attention to the rhyme of the limerick:
Corfu/Peru/through; Singapore/No 4/door
Step 2. Pre-reading
1.Show some pictures of some famous Chinese poets.
2.group work: work out 5 words related to poetry.
Step 3. While-reading
1.Scanning: Ss read quickly and do Ex1 on p28:
2.Ss read and get the main ideas of each paragraph.
Step 4. After-reading
What do the words in bold refer to?
Step 5. Assignment
1.surf the internet and get more information about the topic..
2.Retell the passage using your own words.

Period 2.
Step 1. Warming up
Ask some Ss to retell the passage that they have learnt last period.
Step 2. Learning about the language
Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 27--28.
1.Peotry also call up all the colours, feelings, experiences and curious images of a dream world.
Call up:
The music calls up old times.
On reaching the city, she called up.
2.Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm and rhyme.
Follow:
Follow the directions on the package.
I can’t follow your lecture.
The typhoon was followed by fine weather.
3.Besides, no matter how well translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost.
No matter how = however
No matter how hot the weather is, he doesn’t complain.
She always goes swimming, no matter how cold it is.
Step 3. Practice
1.Ss finish Ex 1 and 2 on page 29by themselves.
2.check the answer.
3.Teacher gives Ss suggested answer and tell them why if the Ss have any problem.
Step 4. Assignment
1.Learn the useful expressions by heart.
2.Finish Wb. Ex1 –4 on page 103--104.

Period 3.
Step 1. Revision
Check the answers of Wb Ex 1 -- 4 on page 103 --104.
Step 2. Discoverig useful structures
1. Ss look at the following sentences and underline the Past Participle.
f.Greatly surprised, he couldn’t say a word.
g.When completed, the canal will connect the river with the lake.
h.Coated with sugar, bananas will taste better.
i.Even if invited, I wouldn’t go.
j.He stared at me, as
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