•How many poets do you know?

•Can you remember any poems you have read in school, either in Chinese or in English?

What are the characteristics of poems ？ Can you give me some examples ？

Poems have beats. They may rhyme or may not rhyme—but they have to have rhythms. This beat is not always obvious, but it’s usually there.

Why do people write poems?People write poemsPeople 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

Let’s enjoy an English poem in the form of a song:Let’s enjoy an English poem in the form of a song: Do-Re-Me and try to find out the rhymes and the r Do-Re-Me and try to find out the rhymes and the rhythm.hythm.

Do re miDo re mi

Doe a deer a female deerRay a drop of golden sunMe a name I call myselfFar a long long way to runSew a needle pulling threadLa a note to follow SewTea a drink with jam and breadThat will bring us back to Doe oh-oh-ohThat will bring us back to DoeDo-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti Do-So-Do

A Few simple forms of English Poems

Forms of Poems Characteristics

Nursery RhymesStrong rhythm and rhyme, a lot of repetition, easy to learn and to recite

List Poems Repeated phrases and some rhyme

CinquainMade up of five lines, convey a strong picture in just a few words.

HaikuMade up of 17 syllables; Give a clear picture and create a special feeling in just a few words.

Tang Poems The translations have a free form.

How many kinds of poem does the reading passage talk about?

Hush, little baby, don’t say a ,

Papa’s going to buy you a .

If that mocking bird won’t ,

Papa’s going to buy you a diamond .

If that diamond ring turns to ,

Papa’s going to buy you a .

If that looking-grass gets ,

Papa’s going to buy you a .

If that billy-goat runs ,

Papa’s going to buy you another .

word

mockingbird

sing

ring

brass

looking-grass

broke

billy-goataway

today

I saw a fish-pond all on

I saw a house bow to a ,I saw a person twelve-

feet ,I saw a cottage in

the ,I saw a balloon made of ,I saw a coffin drop down ,

I saw two sparrows run a

,

I saw two horses making

,

I saw a girl just like a ,

I saw a kitten wear a ,

I saw a man who saw these ,

And said though strange they all were .

fire

squire

highsky

lead

dead

race

lace

cat

hat

too

true

We should have won…

If Jack had scored that goal,

If we’d had just a few more minutes,

If we had trained harder,

If Ben had passed the ball to Joe,

If we’d had thousands of fans screaming,

If I hadn’t taken my eye off the ball,

If we hadn’t stayed up so late the night before,

If we hadn’t take it easy,

If we hadn’t run out of energy.

We should have won…

If we’d been better!

BrotherBeautiful, athleticTeasing, shouting,

laughingFriend and enemy

tooMine Summer

Sleepy, saltyDrying, drooping,

dreadingWeek in, week

outEndless

Poem H• What is the story that the poem tells? Tell the

story in your own words.

• Circle one or more of the feelings below that you think the woman has. Give reasons for your answers:

loneliness joy love trust

anger hate sorrow

望夫石望夫处，江悠悠．化为石，不回头．山头日日风复雨，行人归来石应语．

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 journeyer return,

This stone would utter speech

望夫石望夫处，江悠悠．化为石，不回头．山头日日风复雨，行人归来石应语．

Enjoy more Tang poems

A SPRING MORNINGI awake light-hearted this morning of spring,Everywhere round me the singing of birdsBut now I remember the night, the storm,And I wonder how many blossoms were broke

n.(by Meng Haoran)

春晓春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟．夜来风雨声，花落知多少．

The Willow The slender tree is dressed in emerald all about,A thousand branches droop like fringes made of jade.But do you know by whom these slim leaves are cut out?The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade.

By Meng Haoran 咏柳 碧玉妆成一树高 , 万条垂下绿丝绦不知细叶谁裁出 , 二月春风似剪刀

In the quiet nightSo bright a gleam on the foot of my bed---Could there have been a frost already?Lifting myself to look, I found that it was

moonlight.Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of

my home. By Li Bai

静夜思床前明月光，疑是地上霜。抬头望明月，低头思故乡。