人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高二上04

[00:05.80]A:Hello!Could you help me,please? I want to read some poems.

[00:12.28]B:Have you read any poetry before?

[00:16.04]A:Yes,we read some at school,but I didn't like it very much.

[00:22.80]I want to find something nice.

[00:27.48]B:There are different ways to choose a poem.

[00:31.56]If you have a favourite writer you can choose a book with his or her poems.

[00:37.90]But if you don't know any names,

[00:41.74]you'd better start with books that are collections of poems.

[00:47.07]In such books,you usually find poems by different writers.

[00:53.24]You see,here is a book called a garden of poems,

[00:58.49]or this one,1,001 Songs and Poems in English.

[01:05.04]A:Should I read all those poems?B:No,don't worry.

[01:11.92]what most people do is to go through them until you see a poem that you like.

[01:17.77]Maybe you like the title or the topic

[01:22.60] or you might like the first or last lines of the poem.

[01:27.85]A:I see,what else have you got?

[01:33.13]B:Some books bring together the work of writers from certain period of time.

[01:39.00]You see,English Poems of the Early 17 Century or Poetry between the World Wars.

[01:47.26]Other books have poems about the certain topic.

[01:51.83]The topic can be human feelings,such as humor 1 or love.

[01:58.39]There is also poetry about nature,

[02:02.54]you can look for poems about flowers,trees and plants

[02:07.69]or about the sea of the countryside.

[02:11.94]So,what would you like to read?

[02:16.41]A:I don't know,Shakespeare 2 maybe.

[02:20.96]B:I think Shakespeare is a little bit difficult for you.

[02:26.13]It will be easier if you choose something modern.

[02:30.67]What kind of topic would you like?

[02:34.23]A:I like reading about nature.

[02:38.38]B:Have a look at this book!

[02:41.33]It's called the Earth is Painted Green'.

[02:46.19]If you have anymore questions you can come and ask me.

[02:51.05]A:Yes,I'll do that. Thank you very much for your help.

[02:59.91]Work Book  Unit four  Listening

[03:06.25]People invented poetry as a help to remember things.

[03:11.50]Before the invention of writing there was no other way but to remember important things.

[03:18.16]People early discovered that the rhyme 3 and rhythm 4 are very helpful when they were trying to remember things.

[03:25.43]So they made poems to help them remember all the things they needed to know,

[03:31.49]and pass on from generation to generation.

[03:36.66]For example,to remember their history,

[03:41.34]they recited 5 great stories about their ancestors 6 and the wars that were fought.

[03:48.10]But people also needed to remember practical 7 things,

[03:53.14]such as where to find good caves to sleep,

[03:58.00]where to find water that could be drunk,or when to plant crops.

[04:03.67]We no longer need poetry to remember things,

[04:08.42]but that doesn't mean that we should not or couldn't use it

[04:13.47] to help us remember and learn things better.

[04:17.54]In fact,there are a number of quite famous short poems

[04:23.11]that can help us with things that are difficult to remember.

[04:28.07]We can learn and remember important dates in history using rhyme.

[04:33.53]The most famous of these is,'In 1492,Columbus Sail the Ocean Blue.'

[04:41.10]to remember that it was in 1492,the Columbus discovered the America.

[04:48.37]There are also short rhymes 8 to remember how many days each month has.

[04:54.84]30 days has September,April,June and NovemberAll the rest have 31.

[05:03.10]Fine,February,28 except when 29.

[05:09.29]We can even learn how to spell English words from a short poem.

[05:14.44]The word 'receive' sounds like 'believe but the spelling is not the same.

[05:21.59]Listen to the following short poem.

[05:25.56]It is very useful to help students learn

[05:30.11]and remember how to spells some difficult words in English and it always works 9.

[05:36.98]I before E except after C,or when sounding like an A As in'neighbor'and 'way'