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　　Lesson 1: Poetry, Please
　　Teaching Content:
　　Mastery words and expressions: poem, decide, nature, express, learn/know …by heart, pleased, happiness, shut
　　Oral words and expressions: poetry, description, continue, beyond
　　Teaching Aims:
　　1.       Learn about the poems in foreign countries.
　　2.       Know the differences between Chinese and foreign poetry.
　　Teaching Important Points:
　　1.       How to maggestions.
　　2.       The grammar: infinitives.
　　3.        Some words and expressions: learn/know …by heart
　　Teaching Difficult Points:
　　The grammar: infinitives
　　Teaching Preparation: pictures
　　Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards, pictures
　　Type of lesson: new lesson
　　Teaching Procedure:
　　Step1: Come to “THINT IT”.
　　Let the students talt the questions in groups.
　　1.       Have you written a poem in Chinese? Is it hard? Why?
　　2.       What kinds of poetry do you like best?
　　After a while, let the students in each group present their ideas to the class in front of the class.
　　Step2: Listen to the tape and find the answers to the questions:
　　1.       Have Brian finished his poem?
　　2.       What’s Danny’s poem about?
　　Step3: Reading task:
　　1. Read the text and underline the new words in this lesson.
　　Present the meanings of the words with the help of the media computer. We can use our body language if necessary.
　　3.       Tell the main idea of this lesson.
　　Step4: Read the text again and decide the statements are true or false.
　　1.       Jenny wrote a Chinese poem.
　　2.       Brian wrote a poem about nature.
　　3.       Danny learned his poem by heart.
　　Step5: Deal with the language points.
　　How to maggestion:
　　Maybe you could write a description of your favourite place.
　　The infinitives:
　　I haven’t decided what to write about.
　　Would you like to hear my poem?
　　Do you really want to hear?
　　I don’t need to read it.
　　Let the students sum the use of infinitives of this lesson. Then encourage them to make more sentences with the grammar.
　　Step5: Activities
　　1. Divide the class into several groups. Then let them translate a Chinese poem written by Li Bai o r other famous poets. Then compare the translations of the groups. Let’s see which is the best.
　　2. Each group writes an English poem about the familiar things around us. Then let them change the poems in groups. They may give their own advice to the poems written by others.
　　Step6: Describe the picture in English.
　　Ask the students work in their formal groups. Then let them read their poems in class loudly.
　　Step7: Come to “LET’S DO IT”.
　　Work with a partner. Let the students talt the question: which do you think is more difficult to understand, English poetry or Chinese poetry?
　　All of the students have seen much Chinese poetry, but few of them have seen English poetry. So present the students several English poems. Let them discuss the mean ideas of the poems. Then let them finish the task.
　　Step8: Homework
　　1.       Finish off the activity book.
　　2.       Get more information about the English poetry after class.