The First Period Warming-up & Listening

Teaching Aims:

1.Talk about rhymes, songs, limericks and poems to raise the students’ interest in poetry.

2.Improveing the students’ listening ability.

3.Introduce some poems to the students.

Teaching Difficult points:

1.To teach the students how to grasp the detailed information to finish the listening task.

2.How to make every students active in this lesson.

Teaching Aids:

1.a computer

2.a projector

Teaching Procedures:

(Play the song “Ten little Indian boys”)

Step I Greetings and Lead in.

Step II Warming up.

Step III. Pre-listening

Step IV. While listening

Step V. Post-listening

Step VI. Listening on the workbook.

Step VII. Listening and imitating.

Step VIII. Post-listening

You’ve done a good job today. Let’s enjoy some more poems. And you are required to recite some of these poems. You can recite and many as possible. We will check the next period.

1)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 open, she thinks it’s 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”

Step IX Homework.

Recite one or two poems and get ready for tomorrow’s lesson!

The 2nd period Reading (English Poetry)

Teaching Goals:

1. Learn about poets and poems of different countries.

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

3. Improve the student’s reading ability.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Greeting & Warming-up

Step 2 Lead-in

Step 3 Fast-reading

Step 4 Careful-reading

Step 4 Post-reading

Step 5 Further-understanding

Step 6 Enjoyment

Step 7 Discussion

Step 8 Homework

The 3rd period Speaking

Teaching aims:

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

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

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Greeting & Lead-in

Step 2 Warming-up

Step 3 Speaking

Step 4 Talking

Step 5 HK

T: 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.

The Fourth Period Word Study and Grammar

Teaching aims:

1.Learn and master the Past Participle used as adverbial.

2.Compare the differences between the Present Participle and the Past Participle used as adverbial.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Song

Step 2 Word study

Step 3 Grammar

Step 4 Practice

Step 5 Consolidation

Step 6 Comparison

Homework

Finish the word study and grammar part on the workbook.

The 5th Period Intergrating Skills

Goals/objectives:

Students will:

1. Learn to read poems aloud with expression.

2. Learn to enjoy simple poems and interpret basic elements of poetry.

3. Practice listening actively

Step One Warming-up

Step Two Pre-reading

Step Three While-reading

Step Four Post-reading

Step Five Exercise I

Step Six

Exercise II

Let students take out their exercise books. Do exercise 2 on Page 32 with the poem as "right here waiting".

Homework:

1. Draw a couple of comic strips according to the imagery of Dust of Snow

2. Finish the workbook passage "The Birth of Modern Poetry" by yourself.