A garden of poems（The First Period）
the first period
teaching aims:
1. talking about poems to raise the students' interest in poems.
2. listening to improve the students' listening ability.3. making up dialogues to improve the students' speaking ability.
teaching important points:
1. how to get the students to grasp the main idea of a passage by listening.
2. how to improve the students' speaking ability.
teaching difficult point:
how to direct the students to grasp the detailed information to finish the listening task.
teaching methods:
1. pair work or group work to make every student join in the class activities.
2. discussion to make every student express himself freely.
teaching aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. a computer
3. a projector
teaching procedures:
step i greetings and revision
t: good morning, everyone!
ss: good morning, mrs/mr × !
t: sit down, please. have you finished your homework?
ss: yes.
t: please take out your exercise-books. let's check your homework. wu dong, …
(teacher checks the students' homework. then the teacher and students learn the new words of this period together. )
step ii warming up
t: do you like poetry, sa?
sa: yes, i do. i like it very much.
t: why do you like it?
sa: i learn a great deal from poetry. when i was a small child, my mother taught
me the poem: 鋤禾日當(dāng)午，汗滴禾下土。誰(shuí)知盤(pán)中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。and she explained the meaning of it. i know from a little child that grain comes from pains and we should not waste whatever we eat.
t: how about you, sb ?
sb: i don't like poetry very much, because i had a bad memory when i was a small child. i like to make something.
t： what english poems, song words or rhymes have you read? can you recite any?
sc：i've read some english poems when i was in junior middle school. and it is
like this:
i love the sun
i love the sun,
i love the spring,
i love the birds,
that gaily sing.
i love my school,
i love my play,
and i love all,
that is nice and gay.
sd: i remember i've read a poem about the names of the months. it is:
thirty days have september.
april, june and november,
all the rest have thirty-one,
excepting february alone,
and that has twenty-eight days clear,