Lesson 24 Writing a poem My poem Mother

冀教版 九年级 Lesson 24: Writing a poem

My poem Mother Title: ______ You give me life, You bring me light; You make me feel the world, So nice. You teach me to read, You teach me to write; You are the hero in my mind. You tell me what is wrong, What is right; You tell me to be kind, To everyone all the time.

Enjoy: Family Familiar, strange Firing, boiling, melting Filled with unselfish love Forever 家 昔日的回忆，异地的思念 燃烧着，沸腾着，融化了 满载无私的爱 直到永远

You can write your own five-line poem.

Students Busy bees， Listening, reading, writing, We all work hard. Hope.

Think about it. 1. Which do you prefer to write, poems or stories? 2. Why do you think Danny was afraid to write a poem?

Read the lesson and write true(T) or false(F ). 1. Danny learned how to write songs last week. ( ) 2. Danny likes reading stories. ( ) 3. Danny thinks stories are easy to write. ( )

Write a poem: As a class, think of words that describe things like age, size, temperature, feelings and colour. Then think of words that describe how things move. Make a list of these words on the blackboard. In small groups , ask your groupmates for words to fill in the blanks

Language Points 1. Which do you prefer to write, poems or stories? 诗或故事，你更喜欢写哪一个？ prefer n. 更喜欢，宁愿 。一般不用于进行时。用法如 下： 1) prefer sth. 表示“更喜欢某物”。 Tom prefers his new MP 4. 2) prefer to do sth. 表示“宁愿做某事”。 His little brother preferred to tell the truth. 3) prefer (doing) A to (doing) B “比起（做）B来更喜欢 （做）A”。to为介词。 I prefer swimming to skating. 4) prefer to do A rather than do B. “宁愿做A而不愿做B”. My friend prefers to rent a house rather than buy one.

2. Then my teacher encouraged me to write a humorous poem because I am always saying funny things. 然后我的老师鼓励我去写一首打油诗因为 我总说一些好笑的事。 1) encourage sb. to do sth. 鼓励某人做某事 This kind of contest encourages Chinese to speak English. 这种比赛鼓励中国人讲英语。

2) humorous: adj. humorously: adv. humorousness: n. He was quite humorous and I liked that about him. 他很幽默，我很喜欢他这一点。

3) always 与进行时态连用构成：be always doing sth. 意为“总是做某事”， 往往含有表扬或批评的感情色彩。 The boy is always asking the same question. （批评） The girl is always helping the old. （ 表扬）

mustn't, must be 1. --- _______we come tomorrow? --- NO, you needn’t. 2. Look, what you’ve done! You ______ more careful next time. 3. He _______a teacher. 4. Jenny, you _______play with the knife, you may hurt yourself. 5. He _______doing his homework now.

1. I’m sleepy. I prefer at home to going out for a walk. A. sleeping B. to sleep C. slept D. sleep 2. ---What a heavy rain! --- So it is. I prefer rather than on such a rainy day. A. to go out , stay at home B. to stay at home, go out C. going out, stay at home D. staying at home, go out

3. Our history teacher is very. He often makes us laugh. A. humour B. humorous C. creative D. shy 4. Why not out the problem by yourself? A. trying to work B. try working C. try work D. trying working

Homework 1）Finish off the exercises in the Activity Book. 2）Preview the Lesson 25.