Teaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: poem, decide, nature, express, learn/know …by heart, pleased, happiness, shut
Oral words and expressions: poetry, description, continue, beyond
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about the poems in foreign countries.
2. Know the differences between Chinese and foreign poetry.
Teaching Important Points:
1. How to make suggestions. 2. The grammar: infinitives.
3. Some words and expressions: learn/know …by heart
Teaching Difficult Points:
The grammar: infinitives Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
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 class in front of the class.
Step2. Listen to the tape and find the answers to the questions:
1. Have Brian finished his poem? 2. What’s Danny’s 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. We can use our body language if necessary.
2. 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 description of your favourite place.
The infinitives:
I haven’t decided what to write about. Would you like to hear my poem?
Do you really want to hear? I don’t need to read it.
Let the students sum the use of infinitives of this lesson. Then encourage them to make more sentences with the grammar.
Step5. Activities
1. Divide the class into several groups. Then let them translate a Chinese poem written by Li Bai or other famous poets. Then compare the translations of the groups. Let’s see which is the best.
2. Each group writes an English poem about the familiar things around us. Then let them change the poems in groups. They may give their own advice to the poems written by others.
Step6. Describe the picture in English.
Ask the students work in their formal groups. Then let them read their poems in class loudly.
Step7.Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
Work with a partner. Let the students talk about the question: which do you think is more difficult to understand, English poetry or Chinese poetry?
All of the students have seen much Chinese poetry, but few of them have seen English poetry. So present the students several English poems. Let them discuss the mean ideas of the poems. Then let them finish the task.
Step8. Homework
1. 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 them more information about the English poetry is very necessary. We can use the Internet to help us. The teacher should stimulate the students’ interests about the English poetry. The students can have more time to search more information on the Internet after class.
