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Unit 4 A Garden of POEM Listening
A:Hello!Could you help me,please? I want to read some poems.
B:Have you read any poetry before?
A:Yes,we read some at school,but I didn't like it very much.
I want to find something nice.
B:There are different ways to choose a poem.
If you have a favourite writer you can choose a book with his or her poems.
But if you don't know any names,
you'd better start with books that are collections of poems.
In such books,you usually find poems by different writers.
You see,here is a book called a garden of poems,
or this one,1,001 Songs and Poems in English.
A:Should I read all those poems?B:No,don't worry.
what most people do is to go through them until you see a poem that you like.
Maybe you like the title or the topic or you might like the first or last lines of the poem.
A:I see,what else have you got?
B:Some books bring together the work of writers from certain period of time.
You see,English Poems of the Early 17 Century or Poetry between the World Wars.
Other books have poems about the certain topic.
The topic can be human feelings,such as humor or love.
There is also poetry about nature,
you can look for poems about flowers,trees and plants
or about the sea of the countryside.
So,what would you like to read?
A:I don't know,Shakespeare maybe.
B:I think Shakespeare is a little bit difficult for you.
It will be easier if you choose something modern.
What kind of topic would you like?
A:I like reading about nature.
B:Have a look at this book!
It's called the Earth is Painted Green'.
If you have anymore questions you can come and ask me.
A:Yes,I'll do that. Thank you very much for your help.
听力理解
Work Book Unit four Listening
People invented poetry as a help to remember things.
Before the invention of writing there was no other way but to remember important things.
People early discovered that the rhyme and rhythm are very helpful when they were trying to remember things.
So they made poems to help them remember all the things they needed to know,
and pass on from generation to generation.
For example,to remember their history,
they recited great stories about their ancestors and the wars that were fought.
But people also needed to remember practical things,
such as where to find good caves to sleep,
where to find water that could be drunk,or when to plant crops.
We no longer need poetry to remember things,
but that doesn't mean that we should not or couldn't use it
to help us remember and learn things better.
In fact,there are a number of quite famous short poems
that can help us with things that are difficult to remember.
We can learn and remember important dates in history using rhyme.
The most famous of these is,'In 1492,Columbus Sail the Ocean Blue.'
to remember that it was in 1492,the Columbus discovered the America.
There are also short rhymes to remember how many days each month has.
30 days has September,April,June and NovemberAll the rest have 31.
Fine,February,28 except when 29.
We can even learn how to spell English words from a short poem.
The word 'receive' sounds like 'believe but the spelling is not the same.
Listen to the following short poem.
It is very useful to help students learn
and remember how to spells some difficult words in English and it always works.
I before E except after C,or when sounding like an A As in'neighbor'and 'way'
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