Period 1 (Unit 4 BII) Warming Up & Listening

Aims:
1.Get the Students to know more about poetry.
2.Learn the pattern of a limerick and guide the students to write one.

Teaching Procedures
I. Warming up
1.Ask students to read some English poems or songs or rhymes.
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Imagine by John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people living for today...

Imagine there’s no country,
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people sharing all the world...

You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one.


An English nursery rhyme童谣

I saw a fishpond all on fire;
I saw a house bow to a squire(向侍从鞠躬);
I saw a parson(牧师) twelve feet high;
I saw a cottage near the sky;
I saw a balloon, made of lead(铅);
I saw a coffin(棺材) drop down dead;
I saw a sparrow(麻雀) run a race;
I saw two horses making lace(缎带);
I saw a girl just like a cat;
I saw a kitten wear a hat;
I saw a man who saw them too,
And says, though strange, they all are true.



2.Ask students whether they like poetry or not and tell why (not).
3.Learn to write a limerick.
1)Read the 2 limericks on P25.
2)What is a limerick?
A limerick a special, funny poem.
Rhyme scheme: aabba
Pattern: 5 lines, about 7 syllables in each line.
Line 1: introduce a certain person from a certain place
Line 2: give special information or a wish of the person
Line 3: describe some complication（复杂）or difficulty
Line 4: ditto
Line 5: (punch line妙语) reveal what’s wrong
3)Try to write one or two according to the template（模板）
Template - A:
There once was a ______________ from __________________.
All the while he hoped _______________________________.
So he _______________________________.
______________________________________.
_________________________________________.

Template - B:
I once met a _________________ from ___________________.
Every day she _______________________________________.
But whenever she ______________________.
________________________________.
______________________________________.

4.More limericks for students to read.
5.Language points
1)board: to enter or go aboard (a vehicle or ship) 上车,上船进入或登上（交通工具或船）
eg. go on board上船; 上飞机, 上火车
2)as mad as a door: crazy
II. Listening
1.Brainstorm:
How do you find and choose poems to read from a library?
A problem for many people who would like to read poetry is that they don’t know where to start. If you haven’t read much poetry, it is difficult to make a choice. Names of poets may be unfamiliar, and it is hard to predict whose poems you will like. It is not only difficult for students but also for matures reader. For this reason, anthologies are often published. An anthology is a collection of poems. Anthologies are often either a choice of the best poems by one poet, or a collection of poems about a certain theme, eg. Love, humor, friendship, nature, 18th century or women poets. Presenting poe
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