Unit 4 A garden of poems

unit 4 a garden of poems
teaching goals:
1. talk about english poetry.
2. talk about literature and poetry.
3. practise expressing intention
4. learn about the past participle (3): used as adverbial
teaching time: 5 periods

period 1 warming up & listening
teaching aims:
1.talk about rhymes, songs, limericks and poems to raise the students’ interest in poetry.
2.improveing the students’ listening ability.
3.introduce some poems to the students.
teaching difficult points:
1.to teach the students how to grasp the detailed information to finish the listening task.
2.how to make every students active in this lesson.
teaching aids: a computer; a projector

teaching procedures:
(play the song “the color of the wind”)
step i  greetings and lead in.
just now we’ve enjoyed a song. do you like it?
this kind of songs belong to poetry. and so do rhymes and limericks. rhymes and limericks can be very interesting. so let’s enjoy them now.
do you like poetry? why or why not?
what kind of poems, songs or rhymes have you read?
can you recite any?
step ii warming up.
1) listen and read the rhyme
good, better, best!
never have it rest!
till good is better!
and better, best!
2) listen and read the limerick.
people laugh and people cry.
some give up, some always try.
some say hi while some say bye.
others may forget you but never i.
ok. now please open your books and turn to page 25. let’s enjoy two more limericks.
3)read the limericks and ask “what is the pattern of each poem?
step iii. pre-listening
t: it seems poems are really interesting. i’d like to know more about poetry.
but where can i find a certain poem? are poems put together in collections of poetry?
maybe these questions can help us.
who wrote them?
what are they about?
when were they written?
step iv. while listening
in collections of poetry, poems are put together because they belong to the same group.
they can be sorted by different writers, or they can be sorted by a certain topic or a certain period of time.
1.listen to the tape and list the name of the books on poems by different writers.
(suggested answers: a garden of poems”
“1001 songs or poems in english”
2.listen to the tape and list the the information of poems by a certain topic
suggested answers: the topic can be human feelings (humour & love…)
“poetry about nature” (flowers, trees, plants & the old countryside)
“the earth is painted green”
3.poems by a certain period time
suggested answers: “english poem of the early 17th century”
“poetry between the world wars”