A garden of poems（The Fourth Period）

useful words and expressions:
1. change… to: he changed the date to sep. 11.
2. get through: i got through the book in one evening .
 he got through the final exams.
3. extraordinary: i had an extraordinary dream last night.
4. avoid: the man tried to avoid answering him.
5. fall into: they have fallen into poverty.
6. stupidity: i'm ashamed of my stupidity.
7. by the light of: sometimes we go on working after dark by the light of our tractors.
step iii listening and reading aloud
(teacher plays the tape for the students to listen to. then students read the pas sage loud. )
step iv exercise
    t: please turn to page 31. here is a poem by robert frost. listen to the tape and
        read it aloud. find the words that rhyme and then discuss with your classmates
        what it means.
 (teacher plays the tape and then goes into the students and helps them to correct the mistakes in pronunciation and intonation, and then joins in their discussion.)
    t: have you finished it? please tell us the words that rhyme.
   s1: i'll try. “crow” rhymes with“snow”and“heart”rhymes with“part”.
   t: are there any?
   s2: yes. “me” and“ tree” rhymes “mood”and “rued” rhyme.
   t: are they right?
   ss: yes, they are right.
   t: who will tell us its meaning?
   s3: i think the whole poem is a sentence. it is like this: the way a crow shook        the dust of snow from a hemlock tree down on me has given my heart a change of mood and saved some part of a day i had rued. am i right?
   t：yes, you are right.
   s4: it means that a crow in a hemlock tree shook down some snow on me and this        gave me a release from my unhappy mood.
   t: quite right.
step v checkpoint
   t: open your books at page 32. look at checkpoint 4.  here are three sentences. please change their adverbial clause in each sentence into a past participle phrase. have a discussion with your partner and after a while we'll check the answers.
 suggested answers:
    1. translated into chinese, the book became very popular in china.
    2. given more time, we would he able to do the work much better.
    3. left alone at home, sam did not feel afraid at all.