Unit 5 Poems about life

1. Unit 5 Poems about life Reading A

2. Kit Wright Kit Wright is a famous poet and children’s writer. He was born in 1944 in England and educated at Oxford University. He lectured (做演讲) in Canada, before working as Education Officer at the Poetry Society in London (1970-1975).

3. His books of poetry include The Bear Looked Over the Mountain (1977), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and Short Afternoons (1989), which won the Hawthornden Prize and was joint winner of the Heinemann Award. His poetry is collected in Hoping It Might Be So. His latest book of poetry is The Magic Box (2009). It is a book for children.

4. 短语收藏夹 1. in one’s life 在某人的生活中 2. find ... interesting 发现……有趣 3. all right 确实 4. go to sleep ( = fall asleep) 睡着

5. 根据汉语意思用英语完成下面的句子。 1. 在我们的生活中，我们经常会遇到很多不同的人。 We often meet many different kinds of people ____ ____ ____. in our lives

6. 2. This is a wonderful basketball match, ____ ____. Yao Ming did very well. 3. 小明发现下象棋很有趣，他每天都下象棋。 Xiaoming _____ playing chess _________. He plays chess every day. all right finds interesting

7. A: What are they doing? B: They are reciting poems（诗）.

8. 1.The poem will probably describe some days in our lives as _______. a. exciting b. uninteresting c. busy d. lazy 2. The speaker in the poem is probably a ______ a. man b. woman c. boy d.girl

9. If life cheats you, neither be worried nor be anxious. Believe that happy days will yet arrive. —Alexander Pushkin 假如生活欺骗了你，不要忧虑，不要心急。相信吧，快乐的日子将会来临。 ——亚历山大·普希金

10. Please listen to the tape and fill in the blanks. talking walking reading writing traveling television

11. Please read the poem and finish A3 DK DK Nine DK DK Miles and miles He was bored slowly

12. Read the poem of reading A

13. Important point 1. I didn’t find it interesting, listening. 我觉得听不是很有趣。(P66) ★ 此句相当于I didn’t find it interesting to listen. “find it interesting to do”意为“发现（觉得）做……有趣”。it在句中作形式宾语，真正的宾语是to do部分。

14. 例如： 1. He found it interesting to swim. 他觉得游泳很有趣。 2. They find it difficult to learn English well. 他们发现学好英语有点困难。 Try to write a poem

15. ★ 辨析：interesting与interested interesting 意为“有趣的”，常用来修饰事物。interested意为“感兴趣的”，主语通常是人，常见短语be interested in“（某人）对……感兴趣”。 例如： The story is very interesting. I’m interested in it. 这个故事很有趣。我对它很感兴趣。

16. 单项选择。 1. My mother finds ____ great fun to learnto drive a car. A. that B. this C. it D. what 2. I am very ____ in animals. I findthey are _____. A. interested; interesting B. interesting; interested C. interested; interested D. interesting; interesting 3. We find it important _____ each other. A. help B. helps C. helped D. to help

17. 2. There wasn’t much on. 没有很多（电视节目）上演。 (P66) ★be on 意为“开着，进行中”。例如： Is the radio on? 收音机开着吗？ There’s a new film on at the cinema tonight. 电影院今晚上映一部新影片。

18. 单项选择。 The TV play must be ____ now. Let’s enjoy it. A. in B. on C. at D. to 完成句子。 我们到时, 电影已经开演了。 The film ____ already _____ when we arrived. wason

19. 3. So I sat in a chair and I went to sleep. 于是我坐在椅子上睡着了。(P66) ★辨析：go to bed与go to sleep go to bed 去睡觉，着重指上床准备睡觉的动作，无“睡着”之意。 go to sleep入睡，相当于fall asleep。一般说来，是 go to bed 在前，然后才 go to sleep。

20. 例如： 1. She usually goes to sleep easily at night. 她通常夜里很容易睡着。 2. He usually takes a bath before going to bed. 他通常在睡觉前洗个澡。

21. 用go to bed或go to sleep填空。 She ____________ as soon as she lay down on the sofa. 2. I usually ________ at 10:00 p.m. every day. went to sleep go to bed

22. 4. A dull old day all right. 确实是暗淡无聊的一天。 all right意为“确实的”。例如： She’s ill all right. 她确实病了。 It’s hot, all right. 确实天很热。 all right还常用于表示同意，赞成等， 意为“好吧；好的”。例如： — Can I go with you? 我能和你一起去吗？ — All right. 好的。

23. 写出all right在下面各句中的含义。 1. It’s a wonderful match, all right. 2. All right. I’ll lend you my bike. 确实的 好的