A garden of poems（The Third Period）
the third period
teaching aims:
1. review the text to finish some exercises about poems.
2. learn and master the past participle used as adverbial.
3. do some exercises to learn the sentence transformation.
teaching important points:
1. how to get the students to master the usage of the past participle.
2. how to do sentence transformation.
teaching difficult point:
the sentence transformation between a clause and a past participle phrase.
teaching methods:
1. pair work or group work to make every student active in class.
2. discussion method to get the students to make clear what they've learned.
3. showing and explanation methods to have the students get a clear concept about what they learn.
teaching aids.
1. a computer
2. a projector
teaching procedures:
step i greetings and revision
greet the whole class as usual.
t: in this class, i'll check your homework first. in the last period, i told you to make a timeline that shows the centuries when the poets were living and their names, including all the english poets in the text and some of the chinese poets you know. have you finished it? (ss: yes.)now i'll show the answers on the screen. check them, please.
english poets:
shakespeare(1564～1616)
donne(1572～ 1631)
john milton(1608～ 1674)
marvell(1621 ～1678)
pope(1688～ 1744)
johnson(1709~1784)
wordsworth(1770～ 1850)
byron(1788～ 1824)
shelly( 1792～ 1822)
keats(1795～ 1821)
auden(1907～1973)
chinese poets: li bai(701 ～762)
wang wei(701～761)
du fu(712～ 70)
bai juyi(772～846)
guo moruo(1892～1978)
step ii word study
t: please turn to page 29. look at word study, part 1. fill in the blanks with words in the text. have a discussion with your partner and then we'll check the answers.
suggested answers:
1. poem 2. rhyme 3. author 4. stories
5. poets 6. translated (put)
t: as we know, if words or lines of poetry end with the same sound, including
a vowel, we can say they rhyme. who can give us some words that rhyme?
sa: i'll try. “horse”and“mouse”, “school”and“fool”. they all rhyme.
t：that's right. (show the screen.) now look at the screen. there are two groups of words on the screen. please read them and match the words that rhyme.
match the words:
a: 1. curious 2. image 3.glory
4. absence 5. romantic 6. atmosphere