Unit 4 A garden of poems

period 3 reading

teaching goals:
1. learn about poets and poems of different countries.
2. the similarities and differences between the chinese and english poets and poems.
3. improve the student’s reading ability.
4. to learn about the advantages of reading poems.

teaching procedures:
step1 warming-up
1. check the homework.
2. ask some individuals to recite some poems in english.
step 2 lead-in
t: we know china has long history and splendid culture. of course, in the field of poetry, we have many of the world’s greatest poets. can you name some famous poets?
sb&sc: li bai, du fu, bai juyi, wang wei……
t: good job! thanks. (show the portraits of li bai & du fu on the screen) chinese poets, such as li bai & du fu use their genius to make the dream world of poetry more colorful. here is a poem written by li bai, i think you are familiar with it.
( show the poem望廬山瀑布 on the screen)
t: okay, let’s read it aloud together.
  great poet li bai use his endless imagination to describe the wonderful scenery of the lu shan mountain waterfall, we can feel the power & magic of the waterfall through the words that li bai use. can you recite any other poems that written by chinese poets?
(call several of them to recite)
t: well done! we have taken a look on the art of poetry and chinese poetry. next, we’ll take a journey to english poetry (show the theme page on the screen). english poetry is as interesting and attractive as chinese. i’ll be the guide to show you around.
step 3 fast-reading
t: so here we go! open your books and turn to p27, look at the reading part, english poetry. first, i want you to go through the text quickly and find the answers to the following 2 questions:
q: 1. what are the differences between poetry and other forms of literature?
2. whose poetry reminds chinese readers of du fu or li bai? whose of su dongpo?
(give them 2 minutes to find the answers)
t: well, let’s deal with the 2 questions.
1. ① poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar.
② poetry is difficult to write, but interesting to read.
③ poetry calls up all the colors, feelings, experiences  and curious images of a dream world.
2. ① william wordsworth, george gordon byron & john keats    ② john donne
step 4 careful-reading
task 1. the main idea of each paragraph para. 1  the characters of poetry.
para. 2  a look on chinese poetry.
para. 3  the first period of modern english poetry.
para. 4  modern english poetry in the 19th century.