Unit 4 Reading. 汉英翻译 poet sonnet rhythm rhyme Poem generation isle district Poetry...

Unit 4 Unit 4 ReadingReading

汉英翻译 poet sonnet rhythm rhyme

Poem generation isle district

Poetry attraction embrace

Grammer translate atmosphere

Image absence literature

Glory light up play with

Follow bring together remind of

Character pattern

Step 1

• Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle.

• 读史使人明智，• 读诗使人灵秀，• 数学使人周密。• — 培根 (Francis Bacon)

poetry

poetpoem style

sonnet

limerick

imagetopic

Try to find out some related words

rhythm

rhyme

style

funny

serious

realism

fantasy

romantic

classical

modern

nature

Song/Tang Dynasty

The words you need to talk about poets and poetry: 五行打油诗 limerick

十四行诗 sonnet

节奏 rhythm

韵，押韵 rhyme

浪漫诗人 Romantic poets

修辞格 figure of speech

原作品 the original work

译作 the translated work

Step 2

Step 2

1. Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of Du Fu or Li Bai?

2. Whose poetry reminds us of Su Dongpo?

The works by Wordsworth, Byron, The works by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly and KeatsShelly and Keats

The works by John Donne The works by John Donne

Scan the text and answer the questions.Scan the text and answer the questions.

Para. 1

Para. 2

Para. 3

Para. 4

Para. 5

Para. 6

Para. 7

The characters of poetry.

A look on Chinese poetry.

①The translation of English poetry.②The role that poems act as.

The first period of Modern English poetry.

Modern English poetry in the 19th century.

Why modern poets have special attraction?

The introduction of English poetry to China.

Ⅰ. summarize each paragraph’s main idea.

Step 3

Step 3

Careful Reading

2. What do the words in bold refer to?

poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar

the history of English poetry

Wordsworth’s, Byron’s and Keats’

modern poets

Poems and literature

That1

its3

their4

they5

They7

Divide the text into 4 parts

Parts Paras Main ideas

Part 1

Part 2

Part3

Part4

Para.1 Brief introduction to poetry

Para. 2 Chinese poetry and poets

Para.3.4&5 History of English poetry

Para. 6&7Poems can be bridges between the east and the west

The earliest English poetry

Modern English 16th William Shakespeare

17th John Donne

18th

Pope

John Milton

①

② ③

④

English Romantic poets 19th

Greatly loved in China

John Keats

William Wordsworth

George Gordon Byron

⑤

⑥

⑦

Modern poets 20th

Robert Frost⑧

They translated English poetry into Chinese

the introduction of English poetry to China (the end of 19th )

1910---1930

Step 4

Step 4

1. John Milton’s work became famous, for

______.

A. his work is exactly written with sounds,

words and grammar

B. his work calls up the feelings, curious

images of a dream world

C. his work has a special pattern of rhyme

at the end of each line

D. none of the above

2. The style and atmosphere in Byron’s

poems is just like the poems of ____.

A. Marvell and Donne

B. Li Bai and Du Fu

C. Auden and Robert Frost

D. John Milton

3. From the passage, we got the idea(s);

_____.

A. poetry belongs to all human beings

B. poetry plays with sounds, words

and grammar

C. poetry often follows special

patterns of rhythm and rhyme

D. all of the above

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Poetry is a good bridge to connect

the East with the West.

B. Different periods of English poems.

C. Modern poems of English.

D. Differences between Chinese and

English poetry.

5. From the text, we can infer that _____.

A. we’d better read poems in English

B. translated poems can’t express intrinsic

meaning of original poems

C. there is no advantage of reading

English poetry in Chinese translation

D. Chinese translation poems are as good

as English poems

Homework

1. 背诵 10—15 个单词，明天默写2. 复习课文，背诵课文第一段和最后一段

话。3. 完成完成优化设计句型转化 和单句改

错。