1.　　　 Check the homework.

4.　　　 To learn about the advantages of reading poems.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Warming-up

3.　　　 Improve the student’s reading ability.

2.　　　 The similarities and differences between the Chinese and English poets and poems.

1.　　　 Learn about poets and poems of different countries.

3. T: When you are practising with your partner, do remember to use the useful expressions listed in your book.

Step 4 Talking

T: A wonderful job! You all can express yourselves freely and use the expressions very well. Your ideas all sound reasonable. Though poems are beautiful and they can sometimes explore our inner motions, yet still many other people don’t like them, for they think they are too sensitive. So some people are worried about their disappearing.

T: Read the following passage and decide whether poetry is getting more popular or whether it is disappearing. Explain why you think so.

------Poetry is dead! There are few people who read poetry in their free time. Who cares? However, some people do care. They think it is important to stop poetry disappearing from culture life.

One way to save poetry is by proving that poetry is alive and around us everywhere. Poetry is not something for students of literature: an advertisement is just as much a poem as a Shakespeare sonnet(十四行诗).

Poetry festival can make poetry more popular .At festivals, poets and audiences get together to read and listen to poetry. The song texts of hip-hop and rap music are often regarded as a new type of poetry of our time. Long live poetry.

T: So having read this short passage, what’s your point of view about the destiny(命运) of the poetry？

T：(GW)Those who think poetry will be more popular, please sit on the left side of the class, and you are side A; And those who think poetry will disappear, please sit on the right side of the class, and you are side B. Then discuss the topic with your group members (4 Ss a group) and last let’s share your ideas. And the monitor will be the judge to host the discussion.

T: Monitor, you please! You may open the discussion like this: I’m honored to host the discussion. What’s the future of the poetry? We don’t know, but maybe after the discussion we can have a clear understanding of poetry. Now let’s open our ears to their talking. Side A, you first……

(Then the monitor comes to host the discussion)

　T: A really hot discussion. No matter how bad people’s attitudes towards poetry, after all poetry is a shining star in the sky of literature. There are still many points for us to appreciate. Enjoy poems, enjoy your life!

Step 5 Homework

You know one way to stop poems from disappearing is to prove that poetry is alive and around us everywhere. So to hold a poetry festival is a good idea.

Now you are asked to help organize a poetry festival at your school. The festival will take place on two days and it is hoped that the programme will be interesting and varied. Work in groups to discuss and decide about the programme for the festival. Discuss which forms of poetry should be part of the festival and which not

Record after teaching:

Period 3 Reading

Teaching Goals:

2.T: The circles below give you ideas of topics for poems, periods of time, groups or names of poets and human feelings in poems. Work in groups. Ask each other questions about the kind of poetry your classmates might want to read. Choose a word from each circle and explain why you would /would not like to read a poem like that. You can repeat the exercise a few times.

1.T: It seems that you have mastered Chinese poems well.

1) Do you all like the poems written by Li Bai or Du Fu?

2) Whose style do you like best? /Which poet do you like best?

So different people may like different poems. And you’ve also gained some knowledge of English poetry well, so it’s easy for you to express your feelings about poems.

2.　　 Making dialogue to improve the Ss’ speaking ability.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Greeting & Lead-in

(At the beginning of the class, show the Ss a poem----twinkle, twinkle little star)

T：Just now, we enjoined a bit interesting poem. How do you feel about the poem? (Ss may have different ideas). For myself, I like it. When I read the poem, it seems that a clear picture is shown before me. In the dark sky of night, there are thousands of stars that twinkle in the sky! So in this way, poem tells us about nature and shows us the beauty of nature. No wonder there are many poets expressing themselves by writing poems!

Step 2 Warming-up

T: You know there are many poems existing in the world, and China has a long history of poems ranging from Li Bai, Du Fu in the ancient times to Guo Monuo in the modern times. Can you recite some Chinese poems in a vivid way?

(Welcome some Ss to perform and give some claps; if possible show them some flash for the poems)

Step 3 Speaking

1.　　 Talking about poems to raise the Ss’ interest in poems.