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What’re your favourite Chinese poems? Can you recite one of them?
静夜思 李白 床前明月光, 疑是地上霜。举头望明月, 低头思故乡。 光 霜 乡 What’s the main characteristic of a poem? It’s rhyme.(押韵) ang Can you find out the rhymed(押韵的) words?
望庐山瀑布 李白 烟 川 天 Can you find out the rhymed(押韵的) words? an
Let’s enjoy an English poem and song! Twinkle, twinkle, little star http://v.ku6.com/special/show_2494822/WzD0WeFKrThkSyLP.html
In English poems, we can also find rhymed(押韵) words! Twinkle, twinkle, little star. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. ar [ɑ:] ar [ɑ:] are [ɑ:] igh [ai] y [ai] ar [ɑ:] are [ɑ:]
poem n. 诗 poet n. 诗人 stanza n. 诗节,段 verse n. 诗节,段 line n. 诗行 rhyme n.押韵,尾韵 押韵是诗体与其它文体最大的区别之一, 押韵是语流中相同音素的重复和组合所 造成的共鸣和呼应。尾韵即词尾相同音素 的重复。 在英语诗体中,每一段称为诗节 或诗段,诗节又成为诗行。
What is Love Love is giving , Love is living , Love is taking someone’s load(负担) , Love helps them along the road. Love is caring, Love is sharing, Love will seek the best for others, Love treats everyone as sisters and brothers.
A Look and think You are going to read two poems. Before you read them, look at the pictures and the titles. Then complete the following sentences. Some days 1.The poem ‘Some days’ will probably describe some day in our lives as ______________. a. exciting b. uninteresting c. busy d. lazy b
Some days 2.The speaker in the Poem is probably a _____. a. man b. woman c. boy d. girl c
Never a dull moment 3.The poem ‘ Never a dull moment’ will probably describe the poet’s _____ as always exciting. a. house b. school c. life d. town a
Never a dull moment d 4.A _____ is probably speaking in the poem. a. dog b. baby c. woman d. child 5.The two poems are probably very _______ each other. a. similar to b. different from b
Some days Can you discribe the pictures and guess what the poem is about?
While-reading 1. Read the poem and find out the rhymed(押韵) words: Version One: interesting, listening, talking, walking, Version Two: interesting, reading, writing, exciting, Version Three: night, right [tiŋ] [ait]
2. C Find the facts C1 May and Rita are talking about the poem ‘Some days’. Complete the dialogue below. Write Dk(Don’t know) if the poem does not give the information. May What’s the name of the boy in the poem? Rita (1)_____________. May How many people were there in the boy’s house? Rita (2)_____________. May How many things did the boy do? Rita (3)______________. May What did the boy listen to, read and write? Rita (4)______________. DK DK Eight DK
May Who did the boy talk to? Rita (5)_____________. May How far did the boy walk? Rita (6)_____________. May Why did the boy do so many different things? Rita (7)______________. May Did the time pass slowly or quickly for the boy? Rita (8)______________. DK Miles and miles He was bored. Slowly C2 A line from the poem ‘Some days’ would also be a good title for the poem. Find this line. ________________________________________ A dull old day.
3.Translation competition Four of students form a group to translate ‘Some day’.
Never a dull moment What can you see in the picture? How many people are there in the house? What are they doing?
While-reading 1. Read the poem and find out the rhymed(押韵) words: Version One: bored/door Version Two: town/down Version Three: things/rings Version Four: roars/doors Version Five: address/mess Version Six: din/ in [ɔ:] [aun] [iŋz] [ɔ:z] [es] [in]
2. C3 Read the poem ‘Never a dull moment’ again and answer the questions below. 1.Who is speaking in the poem? a. Is it a child or an adult? ___________ b.Is it a male or a female? ____________ A child. A male. 2.Who lives in the house? Make a list of the family members in the house. ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Eight characters live in the house: the speaker, his dad, mum, sister, brother, grandpa, the baby and the dog.
3.The speaker in the poem says it is the noisiest house. Make a list of all the noisy words in the poem. Example: knock, slamming, falling down ________________________________________________________________________________________ shouting, breaks things, cries, roars, slams, racket, din 4.How can a visitor find the speaker’s house? ____________________________________________________________________________________ A visitor can hear the noise from ten miles away and the outside is a mess.
5.Now you are the speaker in the poem. Look at the picture and describe the action of each member of Your family in short sentences. Example: My sister is crying. ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ My dad is shouting loudly. My mum is breaking things. The baby is playing. My brother is roaring. My grandpa is slamming the door. The dog is running in rings.
What is the speaker doing? the speaker He is looking around and watching what The others are doing. He is also scratching his head and smiling.
Read the poems again and finish ExB & Ex D.
D Read and think Compare ‘Never a dull moment’ with ‘Some days’. Try to answer these questions. 1.In what way are the speakers of the two poems similar? 2.In what way are they different? Both of the speakers are young boys, and both poems are about the mood of the speakers’ homes. In ‘Some days’, the speaker is very bored and talks about himself only, while in ‘Never a dull moment’, the speaker describes a very lively home and family.
3.In what ways are the two houses different?
4.Choose the words below to describe ‘Never a dull moment’ and ‘Some days’. Beautiful unhappy Funny crowded Lively boring Angry quiet Noisy slow Fast sad Some days:____________________________ Never a dull moment: __________________ ___________________________________ unhappy, quiet, boring, slow, sad funny, lively, noisy, crowded, fast 5.Which of the two poems do you like more? Give reasons for your answer.
Language Points
Can you find out the following phrases? go miles and miles find it interesting terribly/very exciting go to sleep all right never a dull moment keep lively hate/dislike being bored come down to knock on the door 1.走了很远很远 2.发现它有趣 3.非常令人兴奋 4.睡觉 5.确实;无疑 6.一刻也不无聊 7.保持活力 8.讨厌无聊 9.来到 10.敲门
Can you find out the following phrases? the noisiest house in the whole of our town fall down keep shouting run in rings stone deaf slam the door thank goodness lie down 11.最吵闹的房子 12.在我们整个镇上 13.掉落 14.不断地叫 15.绕着圈跑 16.全聋的 17.砰地关上门 18.谢天谢地 20.躺下
1.I didn’t find it interesting, Listening, I didn’t find it interesting, Talking. 上处it充当形式宾语,真正的宾语分别是 listening, talking, 可以分别改为: I didn’t find listening interesting. I didn’t find talking interesting. • ---What do you think of maths? ---I find _____ difficult to learn maths well. A. this B. that C. it D. them C it为形式宾语,真正的宾语是 to learn maths well
2.That wasn’t terribly exciting. terribly adv.非常,极度地,用于修饰形容词 或副词,与very相近,但是语气程度不同. I feel terribly sorry for that. = I’m very sorry for that. 试译:你完全错了。 You are terribly wrong.
3.If you like to keep lively, … keep+adj. 表示保持…状态 We should keep our classroom clean so that we can study happily and healthily. keep+doing sth.持续做某事 Don’t keep shouting. Calm down,please. lively adj.充满活力的 She is a lively girl, and everyone in her Class likes her very much. 以-ly结尾的形容词还有: __________________________________________ friendly友好的; lovely可爱的; lonely寂寞的
4.And the outside’s a mess. mess n.混乱;脏乱 in a mess一团糟 messy a.凌乱的 be a mess= =be in a mess= be messy 试译: 这个房间杂乱不堪。 ________________________________________ 今天早上起床时他头发凌乱。 ________________________________________ The room was in a mess. His hair was messy when he got up this morning.
5.In the house we live in! we live in修饰前面的house,充当定语 从句,前面省略了引导词which/that,意为 “我们所住的房子”, 如: the classroom we study in 我们学习的教室 the bedroom we sleep in 我们睡觉的卧室
Summary Read the poems carefully again and fill in the blanks.
There are two poems about d______ and e_________ moments in our life. In ‘Some days’, the writer expresses the f_______ that some days are very b________. He tells us that, despite(尽管) trying many activities(活动), he found nothing i___________ to do all day. In ‘Never a dull moment’, the speaker describes his h_______ and his family members. They all like to make a lot of n________ and everything in the house is a m______. But the house is always very l________ and the speaker never feels b_______. ull xciting eeling oring nteresting ouse oise ess ively ored
ships May grey
tray play quickly
horses hay day
Language A.Using who and whose B.Using one and ones
A Using who(谁)and whose(谁的) We can use the question words who and whose to talk about people. ---Who is the man? ---He is Yao Ming. ---Who is the woman? ---She is Ye Li. ---Whose husband is Yao Ming? ---Ye Li’s husband is Yao Ming. ---Whose wife is Ye Li? ---Yao Ming’s wife is Ye Li.
Who is Lo’s mother? Robots don’t have mothers. They only have friends.
Whose friend is Lo? Hi’s. He’s Hi’s friend.