Unit 5 Music
Period 1 Warming up & Reading
★ Teaching aims:
1. To activate the Ss in learning “music ”.
2. To develop the Ss ’ ability of reading.
3. To help the Ss know something about the different styles of music.
★Difficult and Important Points:
1. Help the Ss to sum up the main idea of each paragraph.
2. Enable the Ss to understand the details about the passage The Band that Wasn ’t.
★Teaching Methods:
1. Task-based method
2. Discussion
★ Teaching procedures
Step 1 Warming up ( 6minutes )
1) Task: Brain-storming ( 2minutes )
Ask the students to name different music styles. Show some styles of music that they are not familiar with.
folk
pop
2) Task: Listening and Matching ( 4minutes )
1)Tell Ss: we are going to listen to eight kinds of music. Here are the pictures for them. Listen to them carefully and choose the proper picture for each of them.
2) Guide the Ss to sum up the Characteristics for each music style.
3) Check the answers on the computer screen.
Step 3 Pre-reading ( 2minutes )
1）Task :Listing
Have you heard about any of the famous bands in the world? List some of them.
Which one do you like best? Why?
2) Presentation
Ask the Ss to search the information about “The Monkees ” before class, and now encourage them to share their information with their teammate.
Step 4 While-reading ( 23minutes )
1) Task: Fast reading
( 10minutes ) Read fast and then do some exercises
①.Which band does the passage mainly talk about?
③.Go over the passage and look for the main idea of each paragraph.
2) Task: detailed reading ( 8minutes )
Read the passage again very carefully and answer the detailed questions:
①. What are the advantages if people form a band to play in the street?
②. When did “The Monkees” break up and when did it reunite ?
③. Why was “The Monkees” successful in their work?
5) True or false ( 5minutes )
①.Most musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play music.
②.The TV organizers had looked for five musicians who were lovely and who could make good music.
③.Each week the group that was called “The Beatles” would play a song or two written by other musician.
④. “The Monkees” broke up in about 1960,but reunited in 1980.
Step 5 Discussion ( 9minutes )
1) Find the music in our life!
2) What are the functions of music ?
3) Enjoy the song of the Monkees “I wanna be free”(4minutes)
Step 6 Homework
1). Read more about “The Monkees”.
2). Find out the important language points in the passage。