《【精品】高中英语（人教大纲）第二册上：Unit4 A garden of poems(第一课时)》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《【精品】高中英语（人教大纲）第二册上：Unit4 A garden of poems(第一课时)（12页珍藏版）》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、Unit 4 A garden of poemsI. Brief Statements Based on the UnitDo you like poetry? Have you read a limerick? The whole contents of Unit 4 are about poetry. Four separate parts consist of this unit. First, the simple questions bring the students back to the poems, songs and rhymes they have learned. By
2、 reciting them, the students will be struck by the words and colorful meaning of some poems. Then they are arranged to read and enjoy a special, funny poem-a limerick, listen to a passage about poems and talk about all kinds of poems written by some great masters. This will greatly raise the student
3、s interests about poems. They will be sure to want further information about English poems. The text“English Poetry”describes the advantages of reading poems. Plenty of detailed information about the history and development of English poems is also given in the text. The comparison of English and Ch
4、inese poems shows us a clear picture of the similarity and difference between the poems of the two countries. The text sings high praise for the two great translators -Lu Xun and Guo Moruo. However, at the end of the text, the writer tells us that something of the spirit of the original works is los
5、t in translated works. This means that we should read original works instead of translated ones as many as possible. Plenty of exercises before and after the text get the students to understand the whole text and grasp its detailed information. The third part is mainly about past participle used as
6、attribute and adverbial. Through different kinds of exercises the students can master this part well. At the end of this unit,a simple but interesting passage tells us a lot and gives us a perfect answer to the question why people read and sometimes even write poetry. A simple and practical way to e
7、njoy the poems is shown to us. This will encourage more students to join in the learning and appreciating poetry. The students will improve their ability to listen, speak, read and write as well as learning plenty of useful words and expressions after they learn the unit.II Teaching Goals1. Talk abo
8、ut English poetry.2. Practice expressing intention and decision.3. Learn about the Past Participle (3) used as Adverbial.4. Write about a poem.III. Teaching Time: Five periodsIV. Background Information1. ShakespeareFor any Englishman, there can never be any discussion as to who is the worlds greates
9、t poet and greatest dramatist. Only one name can possibly suggest itself to him: that of William Shakespeare. Every Englishman has some knowledge, however slight, of the work of our greatest writer. All of us use words, phrases and quotations from Shakespeares writings that have become part of the c
10、ommon property of English-speaking people. Most of the time we are probably unaware of the source of the words we use. rather like the old lady who was taken to see a performance of Hamlet and complained that it was full of well-know proverbs and quotations!Shakespeare, more perhaps than any other w
11、riter, made full use of the great resources of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand! There is probably no better way for a foreigner (or an Englishman) to appreciate the richness a
12、nd variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort (it is not, of course, recommended to beginners), even though some aspects of English usage, and the meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeares day.It
13、is paradoxical that we should know comparatively little about the life of the greatest English author. We know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon and he died there in 1616. He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town, but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was
14、married there in 1582 to Anne Hathaway and that he had three children, a boy and two girls. We know that he spent much of his life in London writing his masterpieces. But this is almost all that we do know.However, what is important about Shakespeares life is not its incidental details but his produ
15、cts, the plays and the poems. For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeares life to the small number we already possess and for an equally long time critics have been theorising about the plays. Sometimes, indeed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappea
16、r beneath the great mass of comment that has been written upon it.Fortunately this is not likely to happen. Shakespeares poetry and Shakespeares people ( Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Falstaff and the others) have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and commentators and all their works have been forgotten.2. About Shakespeares PlaysWilliam Shakespeare ( 1564 1616), E
