Step3. Pair work
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. Why do people want to write poetry?
2. What is poetry therapy?
3. What kind of people can poetry therapy help?
4. In what ways can poetry help people?
5. What problems do the students at a special school in Dudley have?
6. How does writing poetry help the students?
7. How does the book of students’ poetry help the local community?
Step4. Language study
1. Poets use language as a way of expressing their feelings, whether positive ones of love, happiness and hope, or negative feelings like anger and fear.
※ whether …or… “无论…还是…” ，常用于引导主语从句、宾语从句、状语从句。
※ Whether he stays or leaves makes no difference to me.（主语从句）
