Teaching Plan
Unit 4 A garden of poems
Reading ENGLISH POETRY
Teaching objectives
1. Knowledge objectives ：To read for the information of the history of English Poetry & the characteristics of English Poetry in different times.
2. Ability objectives：Enable the students to give their ideas about poets and poems to others, using the target language.
3. Moral objectives：To let Ss experience the spirit of the poems and encourage the Ss to learn to appreciate poems.
4. Learning strategies：To some extend, students develop the abilities of study, effective communication, dealing with information and thinking and expressing in English.
Teaching important& difficult points
1. Help the students learn to appreciate poems and know about poems and poets.
2. To develop some basic reading skills.
Teaching methods
Listening, skimming, group work
Teaching procedures
Arousing students’ interests―reading―experiencing―automatic learning
Step1: Lead-in
Interactivities：Activity1: play a poem by Meng Haoran.
Activity2: Match the author in Column A with their poems in Column B.
Activity3: Present some English famous poets’ portraits and have a brief introduction about their poems, and then ask the students to answer the following two questions.
1).Do you know some famous English poets?
2) What are they famous for?
Step2: Reading: Skimming
Interactivities: Activity4:
1. Divide the text into several parts.
2. Find out the main idea or the topic sentence of each part.
Part 1 (Para. 1) Brief introduction to poetry
Part 2 (Para. 2) The feature of Chinese poetry and some famous poets
Part 3 (Para. 3-5) The history of English poetry in time order and their styles
Part 4 (Para. 6-7) Introduction of English poetry into China
Step 3:Reading: Scanning
Interactivities：Activity5:
Get the Ss to comprehend the passage Paragraph by Paragraph carefully and accurately answer the following questions.
Q1. What are the differences between poetry and other forms of literature? (Para1)
Q2. Who stands out in the halls of glory in Chinese poetry history? (Para2)
Q3. What do fine poems share?
Q4. Fill the chart of some details of English poetry. (Para3-5)
Q5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of reading the translation?
春曉
----孟浩然
春眠不覺曉，處處聞啼鳥。
夜來風(fēng)雨聲，花落知多少。
Timecharacteristicspoets
early English poetryWritten in old English
17th centuryA great timeWilliam Shakespeare
the end of 17th centurySurprising images
Absence of Rhyme at the end of each line.John Donne(Su Dongpo)
John Milton
18th centuryFinest poetry in EnglandAlexander Pope
19th centuryEnglish romantic, natural John Keats, William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron(Dufu &Li Bai )
modern poetsStand closest to us both in language and images.Robert Frost
the end of 19th centuryTranslated into chineseLu xun &Guo Moruo
Q6.If a poem is translated into another language, is it still the same poem? What are some differences? Meanwhile, Get students to enjoy a Chinese poem & its translation.
Spring Dawn --- Meng Haoran
I slept in spring not conscious of the dawn,
But heard the gay birds chattering all around,
I remember, there was a storm at night.
Pray, how many blossoms have fallen down?
Step 4. Language focus:
Key words and phrases:
1. bring together:
2. play with: The little boy is playing with his dolls.
In the text “play with the sounds, words and grammar” means “to use sounds, words and grammar perfectly.”
3. call up: The scene called up my childhood memories.
He was called up at the beginning of the war.
4. stand out: Red stands out against a white background.
5. follow: Why did not you follow the teacher’s advice?
Follow also means “understand”: his lecture is difficult to follow.
5. despite: in spite of: He always remains modest despite his achievements.
6. be famous for: Guilin is famous for its natural scenery with hills and streams.
7. time: In his speech, he expressed the feelings of the time.
8. belong to: Taiwan belongs to China.
9. admire:
10. remind…of…The film reminded him of what he had seen in Beijing.
“Remind” can also be followed by “that clause”: please remind me that I must call him up before noon.
11. absence: Darkness is the absence of light.
12. lead to: Eating too much sugar can lead to health problems.
Key structures:
1. Once published, his work became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line.
Past participle used as adverbial
eg: Frightened by the noise in night, the girl no longer dared to sleep in her room.
Given better attention, the crops would grow better.
2. No matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost.
“No matter” is followed by wh- clause, used as adverbial of concession in the sentences.
eg: No matter when you leave the room, don’t forget to turn off the gas.
No matter who told you about some news, you can’t make any comment on it before you check it up.
Step 5: Listening and Reading Aloud
Step 6 Discussion
Have a discussion about post-reading 4、5 and 6 on page 29
Step 7 Summaries and Homework
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