Unit 2 Poems

Ⅰ.Teacher: Huang Likui

Ⅱ.Teaching material: NSEFC Book 6 -- Unit 2

Ⅲ. Lesson type: Reading

Ⅳ. Teaching aids: Multi-media

1. a computer

2. a tape recorder

Ⅴ. Teaching Objectives:

1. To learn the main develop steps of the history of English poetry.

2. To learn the characteristics of poems during different periods.

3. To master some extra-curricular knowledge about some famous poets.

4. To improve students’ reading ability.

Ⅵ. Teaching Important Points:

1. The extra-curricular knowledge of English poetry

2. The similarities and differences between the Chinese and English poets and poems.

Ⅶ. Teaching Difficult Point:

How to grasp the information presented in the reading material.

Ⅷ. Teaching Methods:

1. Fast-reading to rasp the main idea of three most important paragraphs.

2. The introduction of some famous poets to widen their background knowledge about English poetry.

3. Pair work or group work to get every student to join in the class activities.

Ⅸ. Teaching Procedure:

Step 1: greeting and revision (2 minutes)

T: Good morning, girls.

Ss: Good morning, Miss Huang Likui.

T: Yesterday, we started our trip of poetry. We mentioned a lot of things. Some new words and some famous poets in china, right?

Ss: Yes

Step 2: While-reading (30 minutes)

(Deal with paragraph 3, 4 and 5)

1. Fast-reading (10 minutes)

T: What about English poetry? Now, please open your textbook and turn to page 10. Let’s have a look at the poems first. Please listen to the tape carefully.

Ss: Yes

T: OK, here we go.

(Several minutes later)

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2. Intensive-reading (20 minutes)

T: Despite its short history, there are a lot of good English poets around. This time, would you please red the third paragraph more carefully and answer the questions on the screen?

1. How many poets are there in this text? Who are they?

2. Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of the poems by WangJian?

3. What is Haiku?

Are you clear?

Ss: Yes

(Several minutes later)

………………

T: That’s right, thank you. How time flies! The windmill of the time accompanied us going through many kinds of poems .

……………….

T: Very good. Thank you very much. No matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost. So we’d better learn English well, thus we can read poetry in English.

Step 5: Post-reading (3 minutes)

(Adopt the first paragraph as a conclusion of the whole passage)

T: So, today, we have learnt a lot of things about English poetry, including some famous poets and their representative works, right?

Ss: Yes

T: Although we are Chinese, they are English; although we are modern people, they are ancient men; poetry can bring us together, right? Just as Mu Dan wrote: Quietly, we embrace in a world lit up by words.

Step 6: Homework (2 minutes)

T: Here comes your homework.

1. Finish exercises in post-reading

2. Review the information we have collected this class.

3. Read the whole passage again and underline some language points. Is that clear?

Ss: Yes

T: So much for today. See you tomorrow!

Ss: See you!