The second Period: Integrating Skills & Listening

Teaching material: Unit 4 A garden of poems

Lesson type: Integrating Skills & Listening

Teacher: Wang Yu

Teaching Aids: Slides, Tape recorder

Teaching Aims:

1. Listening to improve the students’ listening ability.

2. Do the fast reading to help them get the general idea.

3. The invention of English poetry.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1. How to help the students to grasp the main idea of a passage by listening.

2. How to direct the students to grasp the detailed information to finish the listening task.

Teaching Methods:

1. Fast reading to grasp the main idea of the text.

2. Grasp the general idea through first listening.

Teaching procedure:

Step I Lead-in (2 minutes)

T: Class begins! Good morning, girls!

S: Good morning, teacher!

T: Sit down, please!

T: In the last lesson, we’ve learned something about songs and poems, right? So which one do you like better? Songs or poems?

S: Songs!

T: Well. I think most of you prefer songs. Each song has different topics. Foe example, what the topic of “Jiang Nan”?

S: Love!

T: Good! It’s something about love. What about “ The sea”?

S: Nature!

T: Well, it is something about nature.

Step Ⅱ Integrating Skills ( 8 minutes)

T: There are so many songs. Some makes you happy, some makes you sad. Different people have different feelings about songs. Now will you please turn to page 31 and look at paragraph 12 and 3. Let’s do a fast reading and see what does the writer feel about songs. While reading, try to find out the answer to a question: Which topic of songs does the writer like best? Now I’ll give you 2 minutes.

(2 minutes later)

T: Ok. Time’s up. Have you found the answer? Which topic of songs does the writer like ?

S: Songs about love and friendship.

T: Good. Most of the songs nowadays are all about love and friendship. These songs are liked by many people. But only a few people are interested in reading poems. In a degree, poetry is more difficult. Poetry uses many difficult words and idioms. In our Chinese lesson, our teacher always explains the poem one word by one word to us. Do you like this way?

S: No.

T: For myself, I don’t like it either. In my opinion, it doesn’t ’t matter whether you can understand a poem or not, just read it loudly and you’ll fall into the rhyme. Everyone can have his own understanding of a poem. Do you agree with me?

S: Yes.

T: Now let’s look at paragraph 4 and 5 and see how does the writer read poems. Read the two paragraphs quickly and find out answers to the question: What kind of poems does the writer like? I’ll give you 2 minutes.

(2 minutes later)

T: Ok. Time’s up. Have you found the answer? What kind of poems does the writer like?

S: Long poems!

T: Yes. Very good. Long poems. So this text is about songs and poems.

Step Ⅲ More Information (6 minutes)

T: In the first lesson, we’ve learnt that songs came from poetry, remember?

S: Yes.

T Good. Then do you know why did people invent poetry?

S: To express their feelings.

T: Yes. It is a reason. Good! But at first, people made poetry just to remember things because the rhyme and rhythm were very helpful when they are trying to remember things. They made great stories of a hero to remember the history. E.g. “ Chang Hen Ge” was written to remember Yang Yuhuan and the emperor in Tang dynasty. Have you heard of this poem?

S: Yes.

T: Because of these poems, we can have a more colorful history. In fact, we’ve learnt many poems in our math class. E.g. ”Multiply one by one equals one, Multiply one by two equals two……”Right? Nowadays people no longer read poetry to remember things. But we can also use it to help us learn things better. E.g. look at this poem.

30 days has September.

April, June and November.

All the rest have 31. Fine!

February 28 except when 29.

T: Who’d like to read it for us? Good,**,please.

S: ……

T: Can you understand this poem? Why did people invent this poem?

S: To help us to remember how many days each month has.

StepⅣ Listening (30 minutes )

A Lead-in (5 minutes)

T: Quite Right! But nowadays, most of the poems are used to appreciate. They went to the library to find poems. In the library, there are so many books on poetry. Some books listed all the works of one poet. And other books are collections of many poets, just like music albums, right? Here I’ve got a book on poetry (show them the book). What’s the name of this book? (Ask a student to read it out)

S: 英國詩歌選集。

T: so is it a collection or is it a book of one poet?

S: A collection.

T: Good! It’s a collection! Now let’s see whose poems has it got? (Open the book) Yes. Shelley, Byron and of course Shakespeare. For each person, the book listed 3 or 4 poems. So the poems are sorted by names, right? And what about this book? Is it sorted by name?

S: No. By time.

T: Right! It was sorted by a period of time. Now let’s see. There are altogether 300 poems in this book. Will you be patient enough to read those poems one by one?

S: No.

T: Of course not. So most of the times, I’ll go through the book and choose some that I like best. Let’s see. This collection has many topics. We’ve learnt the words”topic”, right? e.g. “daffodil”, so this poem talks about nature. Besides, there are many topics, such as love, the war.

B Listening (25 minutes)

First listening

T: Nowadays, there are still groups of people who are interested in reading those poems. So does Wang Ming. Today Wang Ming went to a library. What does he going to do? Now let’s listen to the dialogue between Wang Ming and the librarian. This dialogue is a bit difficult. But don’t worry, for the first time, what you should do is just close the book and catch the general idea. There are 2 questions for you to answer. Please look at the slide.

1. What does the student want to do ?

2. Which topic for poetry does the student like ?

OK. Are you all clear about the 2 questions? Now let’s start.

(2 minutes later)

T: Have you found out the answers?

S: Yes.

T: Is it very difficult?

S: No.

T: Good! I’m glad to hear that. Now who can give me your answer? What does the boy want to do?

S: The boy want to borrow books.

T: Well, we can find the answer in the first sentence, right? The woman said “ hello, could you help me please? I want to read some poems.” Now which topic for poetry does the students like?

S: Nature!

T: Well done! We can find out the answer at the end of this dialogue. The woman asked:” What kind of topic would you like?” And the boy answered: “ I like reading about nature.” Right? So what can we get from those two questions? ( If they can’t answer this question, ask them if you were the woman, what will you do?)

S: The boy want to borrow books on poetry. And the woman suggested him many books. At last, the boys choose the book talks about nature.

T: Good. You’ve got the general idea of this dialogue. The boy wants to borrow books on poetry. And the woman suggested him many books. At last, the boy chooses the book talks about nature. Are you all clear?

S: Yes.

Second Listening

T: Now let’s open our books and turn to page 25. I’ll play the dialogue for the second. This time, please finish the part 1, tick the words that are mentioned by the woman. Now look at part 1 there are ten words. (Explain the words one by one)

Are you clear?

S: Yes.

T: Ok, now let’s start.

( 2 minutes later)

T: Have you finished?

S: Yes.

T: Well, let’s see. Who can tell me your answer?

S: …………

T: Is she right or wrong?

S: Right!

Third Listening

T: Very good! She is correct. Look at the blackboard. This is the correct answer. Now let’s listen to the tape again and answer the following 3 questions, look at the slide. The first question, what kind of book is A garden of poems? Is it a book of one poet or a collection? The second one, which period is meant when we say “ between the world wars ”? The answer of this question can’t be find in the listening material. So try to think, I think we’ve learnt in the history class. The last one, there are so many poems in this book, how should you read? Will you read it one by one? Now listen carefully to the dialogue.

(2 minutes later)

T: Have you found out the answers?

S: Yes.

T: So the first one, what kind of book is A garden of poems? S: A collection!

T: Right, very good. What about the next one? Which period is meant when we say “ between the world wars ”?

S: From 1914 to 1918.

T: Good. What about the second world war? Do you know?

S: From 1939 to 1945.

T: You are right. Now let’s see the last question? How should you read a book such as 1001 songs and poems in English? Will you read these songs and poems one by one.

S: No.

T: Of course not. We haven’t got enough time. So how should you read?

S: We’ll go through the book and choose some that I like best.

Free talk ( If time permitted.)

T: Good! Are you all clear about this dialogue? Who’d like to tell us something about it?

Fourth listening

T: Good! Will you please take out a piece of paper and a pen. Look at the slide. Here are some words of the woman. Now let’s listen to the tape and fill in the blanks, ok?

( 2 minutes later)

T: Have you got the answers?

S: Yes.

T: Who’d like to give me your answer? Good, **, please!

S: names, collections, time, topic, feelings, nature.

T: Well done! Are you all clear about this dialogue? Have you got any questions?

S: No.

Fill in the form. (If time permitted)

T: Good, so much for the listening. Tomorrow we are going to learn the reading part. So please review the lesson and mark the meaning of the new words on our book. We have no more homework today, so please read the text carefully, are you clear?

S: Yes.

T: So much for today. See you tomorrow!

S: See you!

★ Blackboard Design

★ Slides

①

30 days has September.

April, June and November.

All the rest have 31. Fine!

February 28 except when 29.

②

1. What does the student want to do ?

2. Which topic for poetry does the student like ?

3. What kind of book is A garden of poems ?

( A garden of poems: the name of a book)

4. Which period is meant when we say “ between the world wars ”?

5. How should you read a book such as 1001 songs and poems in English?

(1001 songs and poems: the name of a book)

③

If you have a favorite writer, you can choose a book with his or her poems, but if you don’t know any ______, you’d better start with books that are ______of poems.

Some books bring together the work of writers from a certain period of ______. You see, English poems of the early seventeenth century or poetry between the World Wars.

Other books have poems about a certain ______. The topic can be human ______, such as humor or love. There is also poetry about ______

④ form:

Poems sorted by______ Poems sorted by______ Poems sorted by______

A Garden of Poems

1001 Songs and Poems in English English poems of the early seventeenth century

Poetry between the World Wars The Earth is Painted

Green