The Sounds of the world
Teaching goals:
1. Learn to enjoy different kinds of music
2. Be able to give opinions on music
3. Be able to retell the reading
4. Grasp the uses of some important points
5. Get the ability of using the passive voice freely
6. Write a short passage about music
Procedure:
Period 1:Warming up; Listening; Speaking.
Period 2: Listening in the workbook; pre-reading; reading comprehension and post reading.
Period 3: Deal with the important points in the parts above.
Period 4: Language study and the grammar.
Period 5: Integrating skills in the students book and integrating skills in the
workbook.
Period 6: Deal with the practices in the workbook.
Period 7: A small test for Unit 11.
Period One
I. Warming up:
1. Brain storming questions:
1). What sound do you like best?
2). What sound do you like least?
3). What music do you like best?
4). Who is your favorite singer?
5). What instrument can you play?
If you are asked to choose, what instrument do you choose to play?
6). Do the practice in the text book.
II. Listening
III. Speaking
IV. Homework: Read and remember the new words and expressions
Period Two
I. Pre-reading
II. Play the tape and then ask the students to read the text for a while.
After that the students should be able to answer some simple questions without
looking at the book.
1. The music we hear on the radios or see on TV is all that exists in the world,
isn’t it?
2. What kind of music is the blues?
3. Where does it come from? Why does it become an important part of American
culture?
4. What other musical styles come from blues music?
5. What is the most important characteristic of rap music?
6. What does the singer in rap music do?
7. Where is Latin music from?
8. Among whom is it popular?
9.How famous are stars like Santana and Ricky Martin?
10. What’s the writer’s advice on buying a tape or a CD?
Ⅲ. Do the exercises in the post-reading.
Ⅳ. Retell the reading, introducing the musical styles in your own words.
Ⅴ. Homework: Try to recite several parts of the reading.
Period three
Ⅰ. Check the homework
Ⅱ. Study the use of the words:
1. turn n. duty, chance or right to do sth.
①It’s one’s turn to do sth
②take turns
③by turns
④in turn
e.g. 1). Whose turn is it to clean the room?
2). The three brothers took turns at looking after their sick mother.
3) .He asked each of us in turn what we had been doing.
2. in mind
①Remember several phrases about “mind”
②bear / keep in mind remember
③make up one’s mind be determined
④keep one’s mind on put one’s heart into.
⑤change one’s mind
⑥be in two minds hesitate
3. dance to done at the same time as music is being played.
e.g. 1). He sang to his guitar.
2). The poem has been set to music.
n.
4. suggest doing
that sb (should) do
1). Tom suggested to Peter the plan.
2). Her parents suggested her buying a cellphone.
3). The assistant suggested that she (should) come another day.
But: Are you suggesting that I’m too old for the job?
(Now “suggest” means “hint or show” )
5. a world of a lot of, a great deal of
e.g. The holiday did him a world of good.
6. from around the world
from + prepositional phrase.
Other examples:
1). I took my watch from under the pillow.
2). I saw you first from across the street.
3). A bear came from behind me.
7. in common having the same feature sharing the some interests or experiences.
e.g. I haven’t a thing in common with my father.
8. Variety (u.c) ①consist of things which are different from each other
Susan’s idea of freedom was to have variety in her life style.
②a number of different kinds or examples of the same thing
West Hampstead has a variety of good shops and supermarkets.
Phrase: a variety of all kinds of
He offered a variety of excuses.
Ⅲ. Homework: Review what you have learnt
Period four
Ⅰ. Language study
Ⅱ. Grammar
1. Do the two exercises
2. Translate the following sentences; using the passive voice:
1). 这些工厂都由政府经营。
These factories are run by the government.
2). 到那个时候，这都没有被公开。
Up till then, this hadn’t been made public.
3). 大坝到现在应该已经完成了。
The dam ought to have been completed by now.
4). 这件事不需要如此匆忙。
It doesn’t have to be done in such a hurry.
5). 那些木房子即将被拆除。
Those wooden houses are all going to be pulled down.
6). 这样就使得我们省了很多麻烦。
We have thus been saved a lot of trouble.
7). 空调正在修。
The air conditioner is being repaired.
8). 他决定直到别人跟他讲话他才讲话。
He decided not to say a word until he was spoken to.
Period five
Ⅰ. Two items of integrating skills. You’d better prepare a few songs of the three
kinds.
Ⅱ. Deal with some points as you like.
Period six
Deal with the workbook