Unit 5 MusicUnit 5 Music

AgendasAgendas

Warming up:Warming up: To learn about different kinds of music Pre – reading:Pre – reading: To get familiar with a band called The Monkees Reading:Reading: To get the main idea of The Band that Wasn’t and to

obtain some detailed information Group discussionGroup discussion HomeworkHomework

Warming UpWarming Up

What kinds of music can you list?

Warming UpWarming Up Classical musicClassical music Rock & Roll Rock & Roll Orchestra Orchestra RapRap Folk musicFolk music JazzJazz Country musicCountry music Choral Choral

Warming UpWarming Up Canon, the theme song of My Sassy Girl

Classical MusicClassical Music

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Usher, YEAH!

Rap

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Beethoven, 《命运》

Orchestra

Warming UpWarming Up 维也纳少儿合唱团 , When a Child is Born

ChoralChoral

Warming UpWarming Up 藤田惠美， Moon River

Jazz

Warming UpWarming Up Carpenter, Top of the World

Country music

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黑鸭子合唱团，《半个月亮爬上来》

Folk Music

Pre – readingPre – reading

Who are they?What do they do?What kind of music do they

produce?

Pre – readingPre – reading

Pre – readingPre – reading

The Monkees:The Monkees: A Famous Band Rock & Roll Popular between the 1970s and the 1980s Daydream Believer

Pre – readingPre – reading

Listen to the tape and get the main idea of the passage.

ReadingReading

The Main Idea

The passage is generally on The Monkees’ road towards success. At first they didn't know how to sing or how to write songs themselves. But at last they learned to write and sing songs very well and became a real success.

ReadingReading

Questions for Reflection Why is the title called “The Band that

Wasn’t”? How could they become a real band at last?

ReadingReading

The First Paragraph: A General Introduction

Do you want to become famous and successful in the future?

Do you want to be a singer? Do you know how to form a band?

ReadingReading

The Second Paragraph: How bands are formed

Questions:

1. Who are many American bands formed of?

2. Why do they play music to the passers-by in the street or subway?

Answers:

1. They are formed of high school students.

2. Because they can earn some extra money.

ReadingReading The Third Paragraph: The Monkees’ Starting Days

Question:1. What did the band usually do in the TV show?2. Could they be called a band in the beginning? Why?

Answers:1. They played jokes on each as well as played music.2. No. Because they could neither sing nor write songs

themselves.

ReadingReading

The Fourth Paragraph: The Monkees’ Best years

Questions:

1. When did they become serious about their music?

2. In 1996 they produced a new record. What was it for?

Answers:

1. A year after they united.

2. To celebrate their time as a real band.

ConsolidationConsolidation

Try to fill in the blank:

American bands are usually formed by students who music. But there is one band called who started in a different way. They were chosen to perform in a show.

high school

likeThe Monkees

TV

ConsolidationConsolidation

At first they didn’t know how to or songs. But one year later they learned to play musical , sing and songs. They became a real

play write

instruments write

band.

ConsolidationConsolidation

The band broke up in about and in the mid-1980s, they . In 1996, they produced a record as a for their time as a

1970

reunited

celebrationreal band.

ReflectionReflection Why is the title called The Band that Wasn’t?

Because The Monkees couldn't sing or write songs themselves. But finally they learned to so they deserved the title of “a band”.

How could The Monkees become a real band?

Because of their hard work.

DiscussionDiscussion

How would you make yourself a successful person in the future?

What is your dream university and what would you do?

1. Find your dream;

2. Realize your dream step by step;

3. Overcome (克服 ) whatever difficulties you meet with your confidence and will (意志 ).

Homework Homework Write a composition entitled My Dream

University.

Talk about your dream university and what you would do to achieve your dream.

I Believe I Can Fly I Believe I Can Fly by R. Kellyby R. Kelly

I used to think that I could not go on And life was nothing but an awful songBut now I know the meaning of true loveI’m leaning on the everlasting armsIf I can see it, then I can do itIf I just believe it, there’s nothing to itI believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the skyI think about it every night and daySpread my wings and fly awayI believe I can soar, I see me running through the open doorI believe I can fly