Listening and vocabulary第一课时评课稿

Module 4 Music Listening Porgy and Bess By yangchuan Teaching gaol: To know some skills of listening,and

Teaching important ponit: develop Ss’ listening skills Teaching dificult ponit: how to improve listening ability.

Teaching produres: Step 1.leading in: Show some pictues about the opera Porgy and Bess to introdue the opera.

Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. Step 2: Read the passage on Page 47 and finish Activity 1. Revision: soloist n. --- solo a. alone n. a musician who does the musical performance alone repertoire n. 演奏曲目；演出节

superstition n. 迷信

fervour n. 热情；热切

step 3:Listen and check your answers: novel/ folk song soloist/ composer book/ play opera/ concert theatre/ conservatory all-black/ all-white allowed to perform/ banned from performing excellent/ depressing reviews hit/ miss melodies/ poetry step4 listen again and answer the questions 1. What’s Porgy and Bess about? 2. Why did it take a long time to put on the show? 3. Was the show an immediate success? 4. What’s the effect of the review?

Step 5 Summary of the passage Porgy and Bess, a _______ by Dubose, started______ about the life of African . Americans in Charleston. George Gershwin, a __________,together with his brother and the writer made it a good opera. It soon became a classic, especially “Summertime” and “I Got

Plenty of Nothing” have become _________, particularly for the jazz repertoire. At first it wasn’t easy to put on the __________ because Afro-American actors were _________ from performing and Gershwin didn’t want it done with white actors ______ _____ like blacks. At first the opera received depressing ________ but it became an extraordinary _____. Porgy and Bess combines elements that have never before appeared as _________ and it shows the misery and the high spirits of black Americans in the early 20th century step 6 Enjoy the songs Summertime &I Got Plenty of Nothing Homework: 1.

review the words we leared today 2.

preview cultural corner.