Unit 4 The Garden of Poems
The first period: warming up and writing
The second period: reading
The third period: reading
The fourth period: grammar
The fifth period: exercise
The sixth period: listening and speaking

The first period (warming up and writing)
Teaching aims:
1.talk about poems to raise the students’ interest in poems
2.train the students to enjoy English poems
3.learn about a new kind of poetry------limerick
4.cultivate the students’ love of poems and life
Teaching important points:
1.the rhyme of limerick
2.how to write a review about a poem or a song
Teaching difficult points:
1.the rhyme of limerick
2.how to write a review about a poem or a song
Teaching methods:
1.pair work or group work to make every student join in the class activities
2.discussion to make every student express himself freely
Teaching Aids:
1.a tape recorder
2.a projector
Teaching Procedure:
Step 1 Greeting and Lead- in
T: Good morning!
Ss: Good morning!
T: You have done some sports right now, is it right? Do you feel tired?
Ss: Yes.
T: Now I’d like you to enjoy a song and relax yourselves. I’m sure you are familiar with it.(The music is about Su Dongpo’s 水调歌头)
T: (after music) Do you like it?
Ss: Yes.
T: Who sings this song?
Ss: 王菲
T: What’s the title of this song? You can tell me in Chinese. (Bb: title)
Ss:水调歌头
T: Do you know who writes the song words?
Ss: Su Dongpo.
T: Good. It’s a poem written by Su Dongpo. (Bb: poem)Sometimes we can change songs to poetry, we also can change poetry to songs. They have something in common. (Bb: poetry) Poem is a countable noun. We can say a poem or some poems. Poetry is a uncountable noun. 它是诗歌的 总称。
Today we’ll learn a new unit. Unit 4 A Garden of Poems (Bb: Unit 4 A Garden of Poems)
Step 2 Warming up
Activity 1
T: We have known that Su Dongpo is a famous poet in Song Dynasty. (Bb: poet) A poet is a person who writes poems. Can you name some famous poets?
Ss: Li Bai, Du Fu……
T: Can you recite any of their poems? “recite” means背诵 (Bb: recite)
Ss: ……
T: We have mentioned several poets and their poems, but they are all Chinese poets. Do you know any poets in the foreign countries?
Ss: Shakespeare
T: Yes. Which work did he write?
Ss:罗密欧和朱丽叶; Hamlet;
T: These are his plays. He is most famous for his sonnets. Sonnet is a kind of poetry .十四行诗。它是一种抒情短诗。顾名思义Each sonnet has fourteen lines. Any other poets? (Bb: sonnet: 十四行诗,抒情短诗)
Ss: John Keats; Shelley……
T: Good. Shelley has written a famous poem The Ode to West Wind. We are familiar with one sentence in it: If winter comes, can spring be far away? 冬天来了，春天还会远吗？
What English poems, songs or rhymes have you read? Can you recite any? “Rhyme” as a noun means 顺口溜，as a verb means 压韵。(Bb: rhyme: n顺口溜v压韵)
Ss: ……
Activity 2
T: Have you read the poem “Little Star” by Jane Taylor? Now I’ll show it to you. Please look at the slid and listen to the tape. ( music about “Little Star”)
Slid:
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
(after listening)
T: Is it very easy? Can you sing it together? Please sing it together.
(after singing)
T: What’s the topic of this poem?
S1S2: ……
T: The poem is about the stars in the sky. When I read the poem, it seems that a clear picture is shown before me. In the dark sky of night, there are thousands of little stars that twinkle in the sky. They are far away from me. I want to see clearly what they are like. But I can’t. I can only see them like diamonds in the sky.
T: Which human feelings have expressed i
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