Unit 4 A Garden of Poems

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Unit 4 A Garden of Poems
Reading

• English Poetry

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Read and enjoy a poem
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Li Bai
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Some features of this poem.
the number of lines
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the number of characters in each line
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the form
the patterns
rhythm and rhyme
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Pre-reading

Can you name some Chinese poets ?
Wang Wei
Du Fu
Li Bai
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Pre-reading

Introduce some famous English poets.
Shakespeare
John Donne
John Keats
Byron
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Scanning
Scan the text and answer the questions.
Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of Du Fu or
Li Bai ? Whose of Su Dongpo?
William Wordsworth
John Donne
George Gordon Byron
John Keats
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Listening
Listen carefully and tick the the information
mentioned in the text.

• some Chinese poets
• the history of English poetry
• the English economy
• some English poets
• some English artists
• the English poetry in China

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Para 1
Fill in the blanks
people from different places
brings _____________________________ and
________________ together.
different times
plays with_________ ,________ and _________.
sounds
words
grammar
calls up________, _________, ____________ and
______________ of a dream world.
colours
feelings
experiences
curious images
It is difficult to write, but interesting to read.
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Para 2
What is this paragraph about?
1. Chinese poets
2. Chinese poetry the features
The form
The patterns
The number of lines and the number of characters
in each line
Rhythm and rhyme
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Para 3?4?5
The history of English poetry
Para 3 Para 4 Para 5
the early time
the first
the 19th century
the second
three periods
modern time
the third
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Para 3
The early time
What are they famous for?
Shakespeare
plays , sonnets
the 16th century
John Donne
the use of surprising images
John Milton
the absence of rhyme
the 17th century
Alexander Pope
the finest poetry
the 18th century
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Para 4
The 19th century
What are they famous for?
George Gordon Byron
Isles of Greece
John Keats
long poems, the sonnets
nature poems
William Wordsworth
Q What in their poems reminds us of Du Fu and
Li Bai?
A The style and atmosphere
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Para 5
Modern time
1. The American poet
Robert Frost
2. Why modern poets have their special
attraction?
Because they stand closest to us both in language
and images they use.
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Para 6
The key sentence
the introduction of English poetry to China
Time Event
The end of the 19th century
1910-the late 1930s
Chinese writers started reading more foreign
poetry.
Famous writers translated poetry into Chinese.
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Para 7
Why are more people interested to read modern
poetry in English?
1. Give you much more choice
2. Something of the spirit of the original work
is lost in the translation edition.
3. Open the door to finding new ways of
expressing yourself in Chinese.
In a word, poems and literature can be bridges
between the East and the West.
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Summing up the main idea of each para
Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para
5 Para 6 Para 7
What is poetry
Chinese poets and poetry
Early English poets
The 19th century English poets
Modern poets
The introduction of English poetry to China
Why more people are interested in English poetry
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Consolidation
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• Modern English came into being from about the end
  of the ___ century.
• A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th
• The poetry of John Donne reminds Chinese readers
  of the poems by ___
• A. Dufu B. Libai C. Su Dongpo D.
  Guo Moruo
• 3. Byrons Isles of Greece (1824) is an example
  of ____
• A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry C. nature poetry
  D. modern poetry
• The wider public in China discovered English
  poetry at the beginning of _____century.
• A. 17th B. 18th C. 19th D. 20th
• ____s poetry reminds Chinese readers of the
  poems by Du Fu and Li Bai.
• A. Shakespeare B. Byron C. John Donne
  D. Robert Frost

(C)
(B)
(D)
(B)
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True or False

• 1. Poetry is quite difficult to write and
  boring to read.
• 2. The number of lines and characters in
  each line is quite important for good poems as
  well as rhythm and rhyme.
• 3. William Shakespeare is only famous for
  his plays.
• 4. According to the time, the correct
  order of the poets should be Shakespeare,
  Alexander Pope, John Milton, and John Donne.
• 5. Translating poems into other languages
  can not only help people to read more but also
  understand it without losing any spirit.

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Timeline
? George Gordon Byron
? William Shakespeare
? John Keats
? John Donne
? John Milton
? William Wordsworth
? Alexander Pope
? Robert Frost
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Enjoy an English poem
Dust of Snow
Has given my heart A change of mood And saved
some part Of a day I had rued

• The way a crow
• Shook down on me
• The dust of snow
• From a hemlock tree

---By Robert Frost
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Try to find the words that rhyme
crow
me
mood
heart
snow
tree
rued
part
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• A change of mood

from what mood?
to what mood?
bored, sad
light-hearted, happy, enjoy the days beauty
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Discussion
Can you explain the short poem?
Quietly, we embrace In a world lit up by words
Mu Dan
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I think the short poem by Mu Dan means that our
life is like the night. The words in poetry are
like lamps that light up, and in this light we
can meet and embrace other people, whom we would
not have seen in the dark.
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When people from one country read the poems from
another, they will be struck by what is inside
the poem, so they will understand each other and
become good friends.
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Good-bye!