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Unit 4 A garden of Poems

Reading

English Poetry

Pre-reading

1.Can you name some famous Chinese poets?Can you recite any of their poems?

2.Write down five key words that you would expect to find in a text about poetry.

(Poem ,poet,rhyme ,style,image ,literature ,language, form ,line ,etc. )

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风雨送春归，飞雪迎春到，已是悬崖百丈冰，犹有花枝俏。

俏也不争春，只把春来报。待到山花烂漫时，她在丛中笑。

3.Scan the text to answer the following questions .

1)Check whether the five key words that you write down for question 2 are in the text.2)Some English poetry reminds readers of Chinese poetry .Whose poetry reminds Chinese readers of Du Fu or Li Bai ?Whose of Su Dongpo ?

Listening and Reading

Listen to the tape and read the text carefully and choose the best answer for each of the following questions :

1.Modern English came into being from about the middle of the ________century.

A.16 th B. 17 th C. 18 th D. 19 th

2.The poetry of Marvell reminds Chinese readers of the poems by_________.

A. Du Fu B. Li Bai C. Su Dongpo D. Guo Moruo

A

C

3. Byron’s “Isles of Greece”is an example of _______

A. a sonnet B. romantic poetry C. nature poetry D. modern poetry

4. The wider public in China discovered English poetry at the beginning of the ________century.

A.17 th B .18 th C .19 th D. 20 th

B

D

5. The advantage of reading English poetry in Chinese translation is _____.

A. that you have more advice

B. that something of the spirit is lost

C. that you understand it better

D. that you learn how to express yourself in new ways

D

Read the text again and find out what the words in bold refer to

That (par. 1):

Its (par. 4.):

Their (par. 5):

They (par. 6):

They (par. 8):

Poetry plays with sounds ,words ,and grammar.

The poetry’s .

The nature poems by Wordsworth ,Byron’s Isles of Greece and the sonnets and long poems by Shelley and Keats .

Poems and literature .

Modern poets

Language points

1.more than ---比……多；不仅……；非常……；+从句：并非；不是。

1）It does more than good to healthy .

2)More than one person has made the suggestion .

3)The room is more than a place where he lives in .

4)He is more than glad to meet you .

5)The book seems to be more a dictionary than a grammar .

用比较级结构表达最高级的意思。

1)The Emperor cared more about new clothes than anything else .

2)No one knows more about the history of my hometown than my grandpa .

3)Rural life has changed more in the last 40 years than st any other time .

2.play with ---玩（玩具）；不认真对待，玩弄。

The little boy is playing with his dolls .

3.call up ---1)ring up 打电话

Please call up 3630305.

Please call me up this evening .

2)使……想起……

The photo calls up the story of my childhood.

3)叫……起床

What time shall I call you up ?

4)召唤，召集；调动，提出

His brother was called up right at the beginning of war .

Call back ;call at; call on ;call for,etc.

4. 1) has a long history

Our school has a history of about 50 years.

2)In the history of literature (在……史上）

3）In history （在历史上）

5.stand out

1)显眼，出色，引人注目，突出；

Red stands out against a white background .

2)坚持，抵抗，支撑住。

The ship stood out a storm .

The army stood out against the enemy attacks .

6.the halls of glory 艺术殿堂

7.feature n. 1) 特点，特征

What are the climate feature of northern Europe ?

2)专题

A feature story

3）脸型，相貌

delicate of feature 面貌清秀

pleasing feature 讨人喜欢的面貌

8.follow vt. 1)遵循，听从，跟随

Why didn’t you follow the teacher’s advice ?

2)注视，领会，理解

His lecture was difficult to follow .

I don’t quite follow you .

9.despite prep. (in spite of )

He came to school despite (in spite of )his serious illness .

10.around 1)=about

It was around six o’clock .

2)towards ---near

We arrived at the hotel towards evening .

11.most =very ;a most =a very

This is a most useful book .

12.belong to

Taiwan belongs to China .

13.remind sb. of

The song reminds me of my childhood .

14.absence n.

Darkness is the absence of light .