2019-2020学年度人教版选修六Unit 2 PoemsPeriod3Learning about language教案

(I'VE SAVED THE SUMMER)

Introduction

Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students warming up by learning about rhythm, reading and circling, reading and underlining, listening and discussing, writing a poem that starts with What if and writing poems about feelings. The class is to end by students reading out a poem.

Objectives

■ To help students read a poem called I've saved the summer on page 14

■ To help students use the language by listening, speaking and writing as well

Procedures

1. Warming up by learning about rhythm

It is a term designating the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse or prose. Different lines of verse can have the same metre but a different rhythm. Thus two lines of alliterative verse in Middle English poetry might have the same metrical pattern of four stressed syllables, but their rhythm might differ by having a greater or lesser number of