do you remember any little poems or songs you learned when you were a child? poems
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Do you remember any little poems or songs you learned when you were a child?
poems
姆姆你显能 阿妈教你吃馄饨 馄饨汤，喝眼光 馄饨肉，配白粥 馄饨皮，配番薯 馄饨碗，吃爻倒端转
a nursery rhyme in Wenzhou dialect
What are the features( 特点 ) of this little poem?
easy to read
easy to remember (repetition)
have a kind of rhythm( 节奏 )
have a kind of rhyme ( 押韵 )
……
nursery rhyme 童谣
mad
tale
glory
recite
shade
embrace
base
afraid
story
fail
glad
night
Which words rhyme?
Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry.
Have a try!
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Can you find the rhyme?
Why do people write poems?People write poems to tell a story to express feelings to make others laugh …
A. 《枫桥夜泊》
B. 《赠汪伦》
C. 《回乡偶书》
D. 《红豆》
E. 《过零丁洋》
F. 《静夜思》
1. to show the poet’s determination to fight to the end
2. to tell readers to value love
3. to tell a story of an old man coming home which he left long ago
4. to describe friendship
5. to convey (show) the poet’s feeling of homesickness.
6. to describe a night scene
（唐、张继）
（唐、李白）
（唐、贺知章）
（唐、王维）
（宋、文天祥）
（唐、李白）
A few Simple Forms of English Poems
Are all the poems you read in the same length?
Do poets write the same form of poems?
How many kinds of poems does the text mention? What are they?
five kinds
Nursery rhymes
List poems
Cinquain Haiku Tang
poems
童谣 清单诗 五行诗 俳句诗 唐诗
features( 特征 ) of nursery rhymes
a. They are a common type of _________ poetry.b. They r_______, have strong r______ and a lot of r_________.
children’s hyme hythm
epetition
Hush, little baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s going to buy you a mockingbird. If that mockingbird won’t sing, Papa’s going to buy you a diamond ring. If that diamond ring turns to brass, Papa’s going to buy you a looking glass. If that looking-glass gets broke, Papa’s going to buy you a billy-goat. If that billy-goat runs away, Papa is going to buy you another today.
Poem A has rhyming lines. Can you tell me its rhyming words?
Hush, little baby, don’t say a word,
Papa’s going to buy you a mockingbird.
If that mockingbird won’t sing,
Papa’s going to buy you a diamond ring.
If that diamond ring turns to brass,
Papa’s going to buy you a looking glass.
If that looking-glass gets broke,
Papa’s going to buy you a billy-goat
If that billy-goat runs away,
Papa is going to buy you another today.
1.What’s the baby’s father going to buy if the looking glass gets broken?
A. a mocking bird B. a diamond ring C. a looking glass D. a billy-goat
2. What is Papa going to buy for the baby if that billy-goat runs away?
A. a looking glass B. today C.another billy-goat D. nothing
features( 特征 ) of list poems
A list poem is a poem that lists things. It has a ________( 灵活的 ) line length and repeated phrases, and some rhyme while others do not.
flexible
New words in the poem Bsquirecottageleadsparrowcoffinlacekitten
乡绅村舍，小屋铅
棺材蕾丝，花边小猫
麻雀
I saw a fish-pond all on fire
I saw a house bow to a squire,
I saw a person twelve-feet high,
I saw a cottage in the sky,
I saw a balloon made of lead,
I saw a coffin drop down dead,
I saw two sparrows run a race,
I saw two horses making lace,
I saw a girl just like a cat,
I saw a kitten wear a hat,
I saw a man who saw these too,
And said though strange they all were true.
New phrases in the poem C
take it easy
run out of
放松，不紧张用完
This morning I took a taxi to No. 14 MiddleSchool. I was very nervous and the driver noticed it. He comforted me, “____________; there’s nothing difficult.” I felt a little bit relaxedafter his encouragement. But an embarrassing( 尴尬的 ) thing happened when I arrived.I found I had ___________ my money.
Take it easy
run out of
1. What sports do you think the speaker is writing about?
2. Did his or her team win the game?
3. How many excuses did they make to explain why thedidn’t win?
4. Does the speaker really believe his or her own excuse?
Football
No
Nine
Read poem C and answer the following questions
No
features( 特征 ) of the haiku
It is a Japanese form of poetry that is made up of 17 syllables. It gives a clear picture and creates a special feeling in just a few words.
Poem F
A fallen blossom Is coming back to the branchLook, a butterfly
落下的花朵回到了树枝上瞧啊，是个蝴蝶！
Which season do the two poems describe?
Poem G Snow having meltedThe whole village is brimful Of happy children
雪儿溶化了整个村庄充满着欢乐的儿童
Where she awaits her husband,
On and on the river flows
Never looking back,
Transformed into stone.
Day by day upon the mountain top,
wind and rain revolve.
Should the traveller return,
this stone would utter speech.
(by Wang Jian)
望夫石 王健
望夫处，江悠悠。
化为石，不回头。
山头日日风复雨，
行人归来石应语。
What emotions does the poem try to convey? A.loneliness B. joy C. love D. trust E. anger F. hate G. sorrow
features( 特征 ) of cinquains
The cinquain is ___________( 由…组成 ) _____ lines. It shows a strong picture injust a few words
made up of five
a cinquain
Brother
Beautiful, athletic
Teasing, shouting , laughing
Friend and enemy too
mine ------1 word
------1 noun
------2 adjectives
------3 verbs------4 words
Summer
Sleepy, salty
Drying, drooping , dreading
Week in, week out
Endless
Learn to write!
------1 word
------1 noun
------2 adjectives
------3 verbs------4 words
X
X, X
X, X , X
X X X X
X
Create a conquain in groups of four. Your conquain should be like this:
Ellen’s conquain
Family
Familiar, strange
Firing, boiling, melting
Filled with unselfish love
Forever
家 昔日的回忆，异地的思念 燃烧的，沸腾着，溶化了 满载无私的爱 直到永远
------1 word
------1 noun
------2 adjectives
------3 verbs------4 words
Today we have enjoyed five types of English poems.
2.How about their features?
1.Can you tell me the names of these five types?
Summary
1. Choose one poem which you like best to recite.2. Write down the conquain you created.
Thank you!
1. Poetry is used to tell a story or _________ what will give us a strong impression. Or it is used to ________ certain ___________.
2. _________________ is a common type of children’s poetry. They ________ children because of strong rhythm and _______ and also repetition, and make them easy to learn and ________ when they learn about language.
3. List poems have a _______ line length and _________ phrases which give both a ________ and a rhythm to the poem.
describeconvey
emotions
Nursery rhymesdelight
rhymerecite
flexible repeatedpattern
Read the introduction of each form of poem
carefully and fill in the blanks.
4.Cinquain, a poem, consists of _______ lines, where students can convey a strong ______ in just a few words.
5. Haiku, a __________ form of poetry rather than a traditional form of English poetry, has ___________, and gives a clear picture and creates a ________ feeling in just a few words.
6. English speakers enjoy Tang poems from China_____________. A lot of Tang poetry has been ____________ into English.
Japanese
17 syllables
special
in particulartranslated
five
picture
Limericks WOMEN If you kiss her, you are not a gentleman If you don't, you are not a man If you praise her, she thinks you are lying If you don't, you are good for nothing If you agree to all her likes, she is abusing If you don't, you are not understanding If you make romance, you are an 'experienced man' If you don't you are half a man If you visit her too often, she thinks it is boring If you don't, she accuses you of double crossing If you are well dressed, she says you are a playboy If you don't, you are a dull boy ….."O LORD, tell me what to do. AMEN"
Why do people write poems?People write poems to tell a story to express feelings to make others laugh to tell the life or friendship to delight the kids to describe the seasons or scenes for entertainment as the lyric of a song
2. The woman has the feelings of :Loneliness: she was alone watching her husband on the mountain top.Love: she waited year after year despite wind and rain.Trust: she believed her husband would come back one day.Sorrow: year after year, she waited and waited without seeing any hope of her husband’s coming back, she was very sad.
Why do people write poems?People write poems to tell a story to express feelings to make others laugh to tell the life or friendship to delight the kids to tell stories to describe the seasons or scenes for entertainment as the lyric of a song
A clumsy young fellow named Tim,
Was never taught how to swim,
He fell off a dock ( 码头 ),
And sunk like a rock,
And that was the end of him.
Check Yourself!