Teaching goals

1. Target language

a.       Important words and phrases

Poem, poetry, recite, aspect, convey, nursery, rhyme, diamond, cottage, balloon, sparrow, tease, salty, endless, translate, nursery rhyme, take it easy, run out of, make up of

b.       Important sentences

Which poem is about things that don’t make sense?

Poets use many different forms of poems to express themselves.

I hadn’t taken my eye off the ball.

We hadn’t taken it easy.

The poem is made up of five lines.

A lot of Tang poetry has been translated into English. The translations have a free form that English people like to copy.