Unit 7 Seasons
Reading (II)
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. learn how to use some words and phrases;
2. understand and feel the beauty of the poem from different aspects;
3. learn to write a stanza of a poem by themselves.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: shower, upon, as, temperature, drop, butterfly, memory, stream,
shade, pile, harvest, crop, be full of, forget to grow, fly, brown, fall into
piles upon the ground, harvest crop
2. Sentences: What a perfect time to fly a kite!
Farmers work to harvest crops, as the days are shorter and temperature drops.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
Understand the beauty of the poem
Encourage students to design a new stanza by themselves.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Review the words and phrases that students learn last period
(1) Complete the sentences with the words of last period
(2) Complete the passage with the words of last period
2. Review the poem by encouraging the students to recite the poem with the help of the giving words
【设计意图】复习reading中生词，并通过复述课文来达到巩固文本内容的目的。
Step 2 Presentation
1. Enjoy the beautiful language of the poem
Lead students to analyze use of the words and sentences in the poem:
(1) Words to show the beauty of nature
(2) Words to show feelings
(3) Sentences which use personifications
2. Enjoy the beautiful rhymes of the poem
(1) Lead students to read the poem again and feel the rhymes and pronunciation of the last words in each line.
(2) Discussion: What are the functions of the rhymes?
(3) Enjoy the beautiful rhymes.
3. Enjoy the beautiful structure of the poem
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(1) Discussion: What is the difference between the poems and other literary works in structure?
(2) Get students to go through the poem again and try to feel the difference between the poems and other literary works in structure.
4. Summary: What makes a poem beautiful?
【设计意图】通过问答与讨论以及图片的使用，使学生对词语的美的理解层层深入，在视觉的帮助下体会作者用拟人等手法所创建的意境，构成视觉、听觉和动觉意象的结合，在脑海中留下美妙的景象。通过让学生朗读诗歌中的韵律，让其充分感悟诗人的艺术审美以及运用词语和结构带来的音乐般的快感。引导学生认识诗歌结构的排列美，启发学生将本课所学的诗歌与其他文学作品进行比较从而感受到诗文的谐趣横溢，引人入胜。
Step 3 Consolidation
1. Enjoy the beautiful rhymes
Present a new poem with inside rhymes to get students to feel the beauty of different kinds of rhymes and understand the function of the rhymes.
2. Try to be a poet: fill in the blanks
Encourage students to think of proper words to fill in the blanks which make the poem sound rhythmic.
3. Read and discuss
Show a new stanza and encourage students to analyze it by thinking about the questions below:
Are there any rhymes in the poem?
Are there any beautiful words in the poem?
What shape does the stanza look like?
4. Write a poem
Encourage students to work out their own poem by imitating the content, structure and rhyme styles of the sample stanza.
【设计意图】在老师的引导下，学生带着思考进行自我创作，充分发挥学生的主观能动性和创造性。
5. Learn some useful expressions
Explain “be full of” and “forget to do”.
Step 4 Conclusion
Ask students to draw a conclusion about what is in a poem.
V. Homework
Ask students to search on the Internet for more poems about the seasons. Compare and choose out what they think a good poem and share it in class. Try to tell why they think it good.
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