1、English Learning,The Lecturer:Shen KailaiIn QingyuanOct. 18, 2004,English Learning,Unit Four,English poetry,Pre-reading,Listening,Comprehension,Careful reading,Word study,Homework,TASK 1 Pre-reading,Can you namesome famous Chinese poets?Can you recite any of their poems?,Do you happen to know any of
2、 the Chinese famous poets?,Now lets get to know some of them.,杜甫,李白,王维,郭沫若,鲁 迅,Key words about poetry,poem / poet poetry / rhyme rhythm / style / image language / literature patterns / formwords / line,Wordsworth, Byron and Keats remind readers of Du Fu and Li Bai. John Donne reminds readers of Su D
3、ongpo,Who reminds us of whom?,TASK 2 Listening Comprehension,Listen to the tape and answer the following questions.,1. How many famous poets are mentioned in the text? 2. Who are they? And what country do they come from?,Do you happento know any of the English poets?,Now lets get to know some of the
4、m.,William Shakespeare 1564-1616,John Donne 1572-1631,Alexander Pope 1688-1744,John Milton 1608-1674,William Wordsworth 1770-1850,George Gordon Byron 1788-1824,Percy Bysshe Shelly 1792-1822,John Keats 1795-1821,Do you happen to know any of the Chinese famous poets?,Now lets get to know some of them.
5、,杜甫,李白,王维,郭沫若,鲁 迅,1. How many famous poets are mentioned in the text? 2. Who are they? And what country do they come from?,Du fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Su Dongpo, Lu Xun, Guomoruo, Mu Dan,China,William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, William Wordsworth, George Gordon By
6、ron,British / English,Robert Frost,American,TASK 3 Skimming,Divide the text into 4 parts and find out the main idea or the topic sentence of each part.,Part 1:Part 2:Part 3:Par4 4:,(para. 1) general introduc- tion to poetry,making comparison using images,(para. 2) poetry often fol- lows special patt
7、erns of rhythm and rhyme,giving examples to explain,(para. 3-5) introduction of the history of English poet- ry in order of time,giving examples / making comparison,(para. 6-7) poems and litera- ture can be bridges between the East and the West,giving examples / using images,TASK 3 Scanning,Read the
8、 text quickly again and answer the questions Post-readingpp.28-29,1. Read the text carefully and choose the best answer. (pp. 28-29) Where can you find the reason?,* (l. 3-p.27) that poetry plays with sounds, words andgrammar,* (l. 1-p.28) its English poetry,* (l. 17-p.28) their Wordsworths, Byrons
9、and Keats,* (l. 20-p.28) they modern poets,2. What do the words in bold refer to? (p. 29),* (l. 30-p.28) they poems and literature,3. - 1. Shakespeare 2. John Donne 3. John Milton 4. Alexander Pope 5. Byron 6. John Keats 7. Wordsworth 8. Robert Frost,4. (p. 29) Some people will say that a poem in tr
10、anslationis still the same poem. But of course the words that are used, and some expressions or even the rhyme isvery different. Therefore, other people say it is not the same poem any more. By using different language, a poem might lose a lot of its charm and spirit. ( see the last paragraph of the
11、 text),5. To say that poems and literature can be bridges means that they can bring people closer to each other.Two other images to express that idea, found in the text are:1. Poetry opens the door to finding. (l. 28-p.28)2. We can embrace each other in poetry. (l. 32-p.28),6. I think the short poem
12、 by Mu Dan means that our lifeis like the night. The words used in poetry are like lamps that light up, and in this light we can meet and embrace other people, whom we would not have seenin the dark.,Mu Dan,TASK 4 Careful reading,Read the text again and fill in the form,has a long history,Du Fu, Li
13、Bai,difficult to understand,the use of surprising images,Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell,the absence of rhyme at the end of each line,John Milton,Pope and Johnson,romantic poems, long poems,Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats,close to us both in the language and images,Robert Frost,be introduced to China,t
14、ranslated by Lu Xun and Guo,Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats,TASK 6 Language Points,Find the following quickly and try to understand the text:,1. be interested to do 2. real passion 3. remind sb. of 4. bringtogether 5. more than any other form 6. play with 7. call up 8. a dream world 9. a long histo
15、ry 10. stand out 11. halls of glory 12. follow special patterns 13. a kind of English 14. around the time of 15. towards the end of 16. be most famous for 17. belong to 18. in the next generation 19. because of 20. a great number of 21. major works 22. at a very young age 23. live to the age of 24.
16、have long been favourites 25. lead to 26. comparison with 27. stand close to 28. the introduction ofto 29. translateinto 30. much more choice 31. no matter how 32. the spirit of the original work 33. express oneself 34. light up 35. send for(p.30),Homework,1. Review “Reading” and try to understand it.,2. Language studypp.29-30,Thank you.,The End,
