Unit 5 Music

Listening and Speaking

 

【教学目标】

1. Instruct students to get main facts by listening and motivate them to talk about the topics about music, the types of music, and how the music makes them feel.

2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.

3. Develop students’ different listening skills to solve different listening comprehensive problems.

4. Help students to understand how to use the structures “past participle as adverbial”.

【教学重难点】

Prompt students to talk about the related topics, such as types of music they know, their favourite type of music, how music makes them feel, and how to use past participle as adverbial.

【教学过程】

Step 1 Lead in

The teacher is advised to talk with their students about music.

Boys and girls, before we listen, let’s work in pairs and discuss what type of music you know.

Which type is your favorite? How does it make you feel? Share your ideas with partners.  

I know Chinese traditional music/classical music/country music/hip-hop/jazz/pop music/Latin music/rap/rock/punk…

I like classical music. It makes me feel full of energy and happy.

Step 2: Prediction

After their small talk, the teacher can move on by finishing the following task:

See the pictures and give the correct answers.

1. What are the people doing in the picture below?

2. Match the pictures with the correct types of music.

A. Chinese traditional

B. classical

C. country music

D. hip-hop

 

1_______________

2_______________

3_______________

4_______________

Step 3: Summary of the main idea

Listening

I. Play the radio about The Sound of Music (音乐之声), and let students finish the following tasks.

A star has come out to tell me

1.___________________ to go

But deep in the dark-green shadows

Are voices that urge me to stay

So I pause and I wait and I listen

For one more sound for one more lovely thing

2.___________________ might say…

The hills are alive with the sound of music

With songs they have sung 3.__________________

The hills fill my heart with the sound of music

My heart 4.__________________ every song it hears

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees

My heart wants to sigh like the chime that flies from a church on a breeze

To laugh like a brook 5.__________________ and falls over stones in its way

To sing through the night like a lark who is 6._____________

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely

I know I will hear what I’ve heard before

My heart will 7.______________ the sound of music

And I’ll sing once more

II. The reporter paraphrased some of the answers the students gave him. Listen to the interviews again and complete the sentences with the words you hear.

1. A: Country music touches my heart.

  B: So you like music that’s _______of _______?

2. A: When I listen to hip-hop, I just have to move!   

  B: So it makes you want to _______?

3. A: Classical music makes me feel like I’m sitting beside a quiet stream and enjoying nature.

  B: So to you, it’s _______ and _______?

Learning new words

List the new words in the lesson, tell students the meaning of these words and give some examples.

News words: classical, energy, soul…

Talking project

Guide students to do speaking practice.

I. Talk in pairs. Interview each other about music. Use the picture below for ideas.

A: What kind of music do you like?

B: I like techno music.

A: What makes it so special to you?

B: I like to listen to it when l exercise. It gives me energy.

 

II. Work in pairs or groups and role play a conversation.

l Suppose you are a reporter and interviewing the students who about music.

Ø I like to…

Ø Chinese traditional song/classical music/hip-hop music/country music…

Ø Listen to/play/sing…