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it until the summer is over. Task 3 What is cinquain? Brother Beautiful ,athletic Teasing, shouting ,laughing Friend and enemy too mine a name (subject of the poem) two adjs ( describe the subject) three verbs ending with –ing (describe actions) four words (opinions or feelings) restates(重復(fù) ) the subject in anther single word Summer Sleepy, salty Drying, drooping, dreading Week in, week out Endless A fallen blossom is ing back to the branch. look, a butterfly! (by Moritake) Snow having melted, The whole village is brimful of happy children (by Issa) 落下的花朵 回到了樹枝上。 我看見一個(gè)死人從棺材里掉出來。 能否把你比作迷人的夏日? 你卻比炎夏更可愛溫存; Shakespeare’s Sons(十四行詩(shī) ) Warming Up Do you remember any poems you learned when you were a child? Before my bed ,there is bright moonlight. So it seems like frost on the ground. Lifting my head, I saw the bright moon . Lowering my head, I dream that I’m at home. Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky Can you find something like a poem? Rhyme and rhythm are essential to poetry. Without them, there wouldn’t be poems. Prereading Fastreading The reading passage discusses five forms of poems. What are they? Five forms of poems Nursery rhymes Cinquain List poems Haiku Tang poems carefulreading to the tape and find the words that rhyme in Poems A and B 1. Poems A and B have a strong rhythm. Listen and try to clap the beat. Task1 some related questions. Hush, little baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s going to buy you a mockingbird. If that mockingbird won’t sing, Papa’s going to buy you a diamond ring. If that diamond ring turns to brass, Papa’s going to buy you a looking glass.