1、Lesson 1: Poetry,PleaseTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: poem, decide, nature, express, learn/knowby heart, pleased, happinesOral words and expressions: poetry, description, continue, beyondTeaching Aims:1.Learn about the poems in foreign countries.2.Know the differences between Chines

2、e and foreign poetry.Teaching Important Points:1.How to make suggestions.2.The grammar: infinitives.3.Some words and expressions: learn/knowby heartTeaching Difficult Points:The grammar: infinitivesTeaching Preparation: picturesTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lesson

3、Teaching Procedure:Step1: Come to“THINK AOBUT IT”.Let the students talk about the questions in groups.1.Have you written a poem in Chinese? Is it hard? Why?2.What kinds of poetry do you like best?After a while, let the students in each group present their ideas to the classin front of the class.Step

4、2: Listen to the tape and find the answers to the questions:1.Have Brian finished his poem?2.Whats Dannys poem about?Step3: Reading task:1. Read the text and underline the new words in this lesson.Present the meanings of the words with the help of the media computer. Wecan use our body language if n

5、ecessary.3.Tell the main idea of this lesson.Step4: Read the text again and decide the statements are true or false.1.Jenny wrote a Chinese poem.2.Brian wrote a poem about nature.3.Danny learned his poem by heart.Step5: Deal with the language points.How to make a suggestion:Maybe you could write a d

6、escription of your favourite place.The infinitives:I havent decided what to write about.Would you like to hear my poem?Do you really want to hear?I dont need to read it.Let the students sum the use of infinitives of this lesson. Then encouragethem to make more sentences with the grammar.Step5: Activ

7、ities1. Divide the class into several groups. Then let them translate a Chinesepoem written by Li Bai or other famous poets. Then compare thetranslations of the groups. Lets see which is the best.2. Each group writes an English poem about the familiar things around us.Then let them change the poems

8、in groups. They may give their own adviceto the poems written by others.Step6: Describe the picture in English.Ask the students work in their formal groups. Then let them read theirpoems in class loudly.Step7: Come to“LETS DO IT”.Work with a partner. Let the students talk about the question: which d

9、o youthink is more difficult to understand, English poetry or Chinese poetry?All of the students have seen much Chinese poetry, but few of them haveseen English poetry. So present the students several English poems. Letthem discuss the mean ideas of the poems. Then let them finish the task.Step8: Ho

10、mework1.Finish off the activity book.2.Get more information about the English poetry after class.Summary:The students more little of the English, so that the teacher provides themmore information about the English poetry is very necessary. We can usethe Internet to help us. The teacher should stimul

11、ate the students about theEnglish poetry. The students can have more time to search moreinformation on the Internet after class.Lesson 2: Poems AboutNatureTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: hill, clear, brave, pale, golden, softly, kiss,noisyOral words and expressions: swiftly, tiny, wa

12、rmth, scene, related, topicTeaching Aims:1.Cultivate the studentsguessing ability of the whole text.2.Enjoy the charming of the English poetry.3.Compare the differences between the English and Chinese poetry.Teaching Important Points:1.Learn the English poetry about nature by hearty.2.Know how to wr

13、ite an English poem.Teaching Difficult Points:Use what we learn to write an English poem.Teaching Preparation: picturesTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1: Come to“THINK ABOUT IT”.Divide the class into several groups. Talk about the next q

14、uestions:Have you read any poems in English? Which one do you like best? Why?What should you do first if you want to write a poem about winter?Choose several best poems and let the students read them in front of theclass. Show some pictures of winter to the students. Help them to find morewords to d

15、escribe winter.Step2: Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.1.Does the poem make you think of _ ?2.You can write a poem about _ , too.3.Before you start writing your poetry, think about your _ .Step3: Read the text and find the new words.1.Let the students guess the meanings of the new words.Mos

16、t of the new words are related nature. So present some pictures to thestudents to help them understand the new words.2.Ask some students to tell the main idea of this text.Step4: Do with the language points.Make sentences with the new words we learn in this text.Ask if someone can tell a story with

17、the words we learn today. Encouragethem to stand in front of the class and tell his story to us.Step5: Reading taskEncourage the students to ask questions about this text.Finish the task in groups. Let the students design questions and exchangethem in groups. They can ask questions like this:1.What

18、are your ideas for a nature poem?2.What can you do to describe about something?Step6: Activities.Work in groups.Write a poem about the two pictures. Finish a poem. Then each student inthe group correct it before reading it to the class.Step7: Come to“LETS DO IT!”The task is similar to the step6. Fin

19、ish it in class. Try to write a poem aboutone of the seasons. The teacher shows some pictures about the seasons tothe students.Step8: Homework1.Finish off the exercises in activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:It is fun and interesting to write a poem in English. The tea

20、cher tries to writea poem and presents it to the class. Let the students correct it if they haveany good ideas. Some students are interested in English, and they are alsointerested in poems. So give them more chances to create their minds.Lesson 3: Say It inThreeTeaching Content:Mastery words and ex

21、pressions: direction, form, poet, simply, a set numberof, middle, clearly, dark, sleepy, unexpected, frog, feelingOral words and expressions: petal, cherry, grebe, Matsuo Basho, Haiku,particular, pattern, set, syllable, interruption, plop, splash, limerick, adverbTeaching Aims:1.Cultivate the studen

22、tsreading comprehension.2.Know more about the foreign culture.3.Compare the differences between the Chinese and Japanesepoems.Teaching Important Points:1. Learn about an old style of Japanese poem: Haiku.2. Know some styles of poems: Haiku, Nature Poem and Limerick.Teaching Difficult Points:The old

23、form of Japanese poetry: Haiku.Teaching Preparation: picturesTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1: Show pictures of Japanese poets and poems. Then introduce Haikuto the students. The teacher can find some music to match the poem.Step2: List

24、en to the tape and fill in the blanks.Usually Haikus are about _ .Haiku always has _ lines.The first line of a Haiku has _ syllables.Check the answers in class in oral.Step3: Read the text and guess the meanings of the new words.Sometimes some new words are too hard to understand, so the teacher can

25、find some related pictures to help them. If the students bring some picturesabout nature to the class, let them show them in front of the class.Step4: Read the text and find the answers to the questions:1.Do Haikus tell a story?2.Whats a syllable?Step5: Come to“PROJECT”.1. Divide the class into grou

26、ps to finish the task.2.Finish the three poems in the text. Use the sentence: I need a _ . Let the others give the answers, onestudent write the words down.3.After finishing the poems, read it to the class. All the groups havedifferent poems. Do they sound funny?4.Decide a subject by each group. The

27、n make a pattern according tothe subject. Then finish the poem as themodels in the text.5.Read the poem to the class.Step6: Homework1.Finish off the exercises in activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:Some students may think the foreign poems are funny and easy. Theteache

28、r may also think so. It is possible for the students to create poems likethose we have learned in the class. Give them more chances to create theirminds. The teacher can try some poems, too. The class and the teacher canfind much fun in learning foreign poems.Lesson 4: The WishTeaching Content:Maste

29、ry words and expressions: wish, in the middle of, stone, friendship,recite Teaching Aims:1.Learn how to sing foreign songs.2.Know more about the foreign culture.3.Learn about the styles of all kinds of poems in other countries.Teaching Important Points:1.Master the main idea of the song.2.Grasp the

30、use of“without”.3.Make a similar song like this.Teaching Difficult Points:The use of“without”.Teaching Preparation: picturesTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1: Listen to the tape for several times. At the same time, ask thestudents to sin

31、g after it. Test how long they grasp the rhythm of the song.Step2: Read the song as a poem. Let the students read the poem as a lyricline by line.Step3: Make a poem like this.Divide the class into several groups. Make the similar this. Every groupmakes a poem. Then present it to the class. If the ot

32、hers have other betterideas, they can give their advice.Step4: Do with the language points.Make sentences with the important phrases: in the middle, without.S1: Danny sits in the middle of the classroom.S2: There is a stone in the middle of the road.S3: Fish cant live without water.S4: We cantsfihni

33、the work without your help.Step5: Come to“PROJECT”.Finish the task in groups.1.Everyone in the group chooses one pattern of these poems andwrites one by yourself.2.After writing the poem, show it to the others in the group.3.Each exams the otherspoems and gives his advice.4.After examine all of thei

34、r poems, change them with the other group.Give their reasonable advice.5.The teacher gives them chances to express themselves.Step6: Homework.1.Finish off the exercises in the activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:The students are familiar to the Chinese poetry, but the

35、foreign ones arehard for them. When the students practice, the teacher should give them ahand if necessary. It is a challenge for the Chinese students to write foreignpoems. Encourage them more in order to stimulate their interests oflearning English.Lesson 5: Thats a FunnyLimerick!Teaching Content:

36、Mastery words and expressions: bothandOral words and expressions: blank, motionTeaching Aims:1.Cultivate the studentsability of learning by themselves.2.Master one of the patterns of foreign poems.3.Compare the differences between the Chinese and foreign poetry.Teaching Important Points:1.Know more

37、about the limerick.2.Learn more words about describing weight, size, feeling and age.Teaching Difficult Points:Know how to write a limerick.Teaching Preparation: picturesTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1: Come to“THINK ABOUT IT”.Let the

38、students answer the questions in class in oral.1.Ask several students to say funny sayings in English. If they cantexprsehs,stthheeymcsaenlves in Engli say them in Chinese.2.Let some students tell jokes. Encourage them to tell jokes in English.Step2: Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.1._ and

39、 _ help Jenny fill in the blanks in her limerick.2. They choose _ to describe the weight.Step3: Read and get the main idea of the text.1.Let the students scan the text. Then tell the main idea of the text.2.Find the new words and guess their meanings according to the text.Step4: Do with some languag

40、e points.Eitheror,bothandLet some students make sentences with the help of the pictures.S1: He eats either apples or oranges.S2: Either he or I am good at dancing.S3: Both his teachers and his parents love him.S4: Susan loves both reading and listening.Step5: Come to“LETS DO IT”.Limerick is a kind o

41、f poem that has a pattern.Study the“Limerick”. Get the results.1.There are five lines in the limerick.2.From Jennys limerick, we can see the first, second and fifth lineshave rhym. eLook in the library or search on the Internet to find some information aboutlimericks. Show them to the class and let

42、them find the patterns of“l(fā)imerick”.3.Let different groups act the dialogue out in front of the class.Step6: Homework1.Finish off the exercises in activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:Limerick is fun. Its interesting for the students. The students maylike to practice it

43、 very much. Everyone writes alimerick. The class will be full of laughter. Ask the students to begin thesimilar dialogue in class to practice thelimerick.Lesson 6: Say It in FiveTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions: create, single, thoughtOral words and expressions: fur, stretch, hum, adje

44、ctiveTeaching Aims:1.Improve the studentslistening and reading abilities.2.Know more about the foreign poetry.3.Learn the American five-line poems.Teaching Important Points:1.Grasp the pattern of the five-line poem.2.Use the pattern to describe something.Teaching Difficult Points:Use the pattern to

45、describe something.Teaching Preparation: picturesTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1: Come to“THINK ABOUT IT”.We all know Chinese poetry has different kinds of patterns. Let the studentsgive some examples.Step2: Listen to the tape and answ

46、er the following questions:1. Who created the five-line poem?2.How many poems does the text show us?Finish the listening part in class in oral.Step3: Reading task:Read and tell the main idea of the text. This is a game to practice thestudents memories. It can improve the studentssummary abilities.St

47、ep4: Read and decide the statements are true or false.1.Today we learn a pattern of French poetry.2. The second line has three words.3.The topic of the poem is a noun.Finish the questions in class in oral.Step5: Activity:Show some pictures to the students. Let them the favourite one to describe.They

48、 can work in pairs. Then show their poems to the class.Its easy to finish the task, but it is hard to do it well.Step6: Come to“LETS DO IT”.Work in groups of three or four students.1.Say the differences between a Haiku and a five-line poem. Say abouttheir different forms and differentpatterns.A haik

49、u is just a description of a scene. It is simply what is happening in thisplace, at this moment.Five-line poem has five lines. It is always about a single topic. Each line hasa set number of words. The first line has one word. The second line has twowords. The third, or middle, line has three words.

50、 The fourth line has fourwords. The last line has one word.2.Finish the task in groups. Choose one topic as they like. Thenexchange the poems among the groups.Step7: Homework1. Finish off the exercises in activity book.2.Ask the students to find more topics after class.Summary:We learn different kin

51、ds of foreign poetry. They are limericks, five-linepoems and Haiku. The students may thinkthey are very interesting. Some students have surprising poems that youdidnt think of. Give them moto practice so that they can create their minds.Lesson 7: TradingPoemsTeaching Content:Mastery words and expres

52、sions: awake, riddleOral words and expressions: avenueTeaching Aims:1.Know more about the foreign culture.2. Create the students cooperation ability.Teaching Important Points:1.Master the written style, letter.2.Learn the differences between Chinese and foreign poetry.Teaching Difficult Points:Write

53、 a letter with what we learn in this unit.Teaching Preparation: picturesTeaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, picturesType of lesson: new lessonTeaching Procedure:Step1: Show the type of the letter. Let the students sum how to write a letter.Pay attention to the written style of the envelope.Step2:

54、Listening taskListen to the tape and fill in the blanks.1. _ is a beautiful way to express thoughts and feelings.2. Dannys teacher says Dannys always saying _things.Let the students listen to the tape and finish the listening task in class inoral.Step3: Read the text and answer the following questio

55、ns:1.Does Danny think it is hard to write a poem?2.Did Li Ming write back to Danny?Ask the students scan the text and answer the questions.Step4: PracticeWrite a letter to your friends about what we learn in this unit. The teacherencourages them to write a poem to their friend, to o. Its hard, so th

56、ey canchoose any topic that they like. They only write for friends. We don todemand too much.Step5: Come to“LETS DO IT”.Finish the task in groups of three or four students. In a small group, write apoem like the one in Li Mings postcard.1.First, choose a word your group like. They can choose any wor

57、d thatthey like. Because the task is to begina poem with the letters in this word, everyone can write a word on a piece ofpaper. Then they can choose one from these.2.Use each letter in this word to begin a line of our poem. Everyone inthe group can write different poemaccording to the word. Then th

58、ey can exchange their poems and giveadvice to each other.3.Make a poster to display your poems on the wall. It takes some timeto design the poster.4.Which one do you think is the best? Give your reasons.Let the students choose the best poem that they like best and give theirreasons in front of the c

59、lass. Step6: Homework1.Finish off the exercises in activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:The last poem that we learn in Li Mings postcard is veryinterestLesson 8: Unit ReviewTeaching Content:Mastery words and expressions from Lesson1 to Lesson7.Oral words and expressions

60、 from Lesson1 to Lesson7.Teaching Aims:1.Improve the studentsability of using what we learn in thisunit.2.Stimulate the studentsmind of learning about Chinese andforeign poetry.3.Know the differences between Chinese and foreign poetry.Teaching Important Points:1.Making suggestions.2.Master the use o