Lesson 3 Poetry
Teaching Aim:
a. Learn to appreciate poems
b. accumulate some cultural background of Christmas.
Stage 1 warm up
Guess and match: teacher give some titles of famous Chinese poems and ask students to match them with their authors
Students ask themselves what other poets they know and their favorite poems.
Read the passage about Libai in the Culture Corner and learn something about his writing style.
Define what poetry is and teach students how to appreciate.
Learn the key words in exercise 2 by filling them in the blanks.
Li Bai (701-762 A. D.), a famous Chinese poet in Tang Dynasty, whose poems express enlightened thinking, attack dignitary in his time with intense patriotism, and the style of which is bold and unconstrained.
A SPRING MORNING 春晓
I awake light-hearted this morning of spring,
Everywhere round me the singing of birds
But now I remember the night, the storm,
And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.
COMING HOME? 回乡偶书
I left home young. I return old;
Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;
And my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"
Stage 2 appreciating the poems
read the poems for the first time and pick out the words which are used to describe the moon and the appearance of Santa Clause.
Read the poems for the second time and answer the questions in exercise 4.
Finish exercise 5
Stage 3 Summary
Explain some of the slight differences between Chinese poems and its English translation:
Word order; the usage of participle
Conclusion: The most important thing in appreciating poetry is getting the impression of the described scenery. Don’t make a fuss over language.
Stage 4 more poems for the students to appreciate:
On?a?Quiet?Night
A?Tranquil?Night
A Farewell to Meng Haoran on His Way to Yangzhou
A Note Left for An Absent Ecluse
Stage 5 concise and descriptive language in the poems
Finish exercise 7 about the situation and the descriptive language
the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
Head bent, in homesickness, I am drowned
With my head bent, I am lost in homesickness.
Eyes raised, I see the moon so bright.
With my eyes raised, I see the moon so bright.
Figure and speech (修辞手法)
simile（明喻） metaphor（暗喻）
The daffodils move gracefully like butterflies and dancers
水仙花像蝴蝶一样优美地跳着舞.(simile)
fluttering and dancing in the breeze(metaphor)
Differentiate metaphor and simile
The old man’ hair is as white as snow. （simile）
All his former joy was drowned in the confusion about who is who.（metaphor）
You can’t trust the man. He is as slippery as eel (泥鳅).（simile）
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