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2. Intensive-reading (20 minutes)

T: Despite its short history, there are a lot of good English poets around. This time, would you please red the third paragraph more carefully and answer the questions on the screen?

1. How many poets are there in this text? Who are they?

2. Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of the poems by WangJian?

3. What is Haiku?

Are you clear?

Ss: Yes

(Several minutes later)

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T: That's right, thank you. How time flies! The windmill of the time accompanied us going through many kinds of poems .

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T: Very good. Thank you very much. No matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost. So we'd better learn English well, thus we can read poetry in English.

Step 3: Post-reading (3 minutes)

(Adopt the first paragraph as a conclusion of the whole passage)