A garden of poems（The Second Period）

9. come into being: when did the great wall come into being?
     step iii listening and reading aloud
    t: now let's listen to the tape. when i play it for the first time, just listen. then i'll play it for the second time. this time, you can follow it in a low voice. then read the text aloud, paying attention to your pronunciation and
intonation. do you understand? ok. let's begin.
    (teacher goes among the students, answers the students' questions and       corrects the mistakes.)
step iv discussion
t: now please turn to page 29,post-read-ing 4、5 and 6. have a discussion about
 them. later, i'll ask some of you to give us the answers.
(after a while. )
   t: who'll give us the answer to the fourth?
   s1 : i'll try. if a poem is translated into another language, it's changed a bit. that's to say, something of the spirit of the original works is lost.
 t： quite right. let's compare a poem by chao zhi with its translation.
     (teacher shows the screen. )
七步詩
曹植
煮豆燃豆萁，
豆在釜中泣；
“本是同根生，
 相煎何太急？”
they were boiling beans on a beanstalk fire,
came a plaintive voice from the pot,
“ (    ),why since we sprang from the selfsame root,
should you kill me with anger hot?”
t： from the poem above, we can find that when a poem is translated into another language, its rhythm and rhyme, the figures of speech, etc. are different
from the original work…
suggested answers to ex. 5 and ex. 6 ：
 5. they can be ties that bring the east and the west together and fine wine
 enjoyed by the east and the west.
 6. it means that when people from one country read the poems from another, they will be struek by what is inside the poem, so they will understand each other and become good friends.
step v summary and homework
t: today we're learnt a text about poems and poets. read the text after class and       collect as much information about the things and persons mentioned in the text as possible. then do ex. 3 on page 29. besides, we've learnt some useful words and expressions. please tell me what they are.
ss: play with, call up, despite, time,…
(teacher writes them on the blackboard.)
t: please remember the words and expressions and make sentences with them when you have time. that's all for today. class is over.
step vi the design of the writing on the blackboard
unit 4 a garden of poems                  the second period