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Unit 5 Music Warming up and Reading Teaching Aims: Knowledge aims: 1.

Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this passage. 2.

Let students learn about different types of music. Ability aims: 1.

Enable students to learn to talk about different kinds of music. 2.

Develop students’ reading ability by learning to read about bands and let them learn different reading skills. Emotional aims: 1.

Arouse student’s great interest in music.

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Develop student’s sense of cooperative learning.

Teaching Important Points: 1.

Get students to learn more about different kinds of music. 2.

Let students learn different reading skills. Teaching Difficult Points: 1.

Develop students’ reading ability.

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Enable students to learn to enjoy different kinds of music. Teaching Methods: 1.

Task-based teaching and learning 2.

Cooperative learning

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Discussion Teaching Aids: Multimedia, a tape recorder and other normal teaching tools.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1 Warming up

( Play music：) 1.

Do you like music? 2.

How does music make you feel?

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What kind of music do you like best? 4.

Listen to the different kinds of music on the tape and number the pictures on Page 33. Step 2 Pre- reading 1.

Do you know any famous band? Which one do you like best, why? 2.

Do you know anything about the Monkees?(pictures) 3.

Read the title and look at the pictures and predict what you expect to know from the passage? (Ask a few students to tell what they want to know to their partners.) Step3 Reading 1.

First Reading Have you found out your answers? If yes, please tell your answers to your partner. If no, tell your partner what you know after reading. Get the main idea of the passage------ the success of a band named the Monkees. 2.

Reading for general idea Now please read each paragraph and get the main ideas. You may find it either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the paragraph. Main idea for each paragraph Paragraph1 Many people want to be famous as singers or musicians.

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How people form a band.

paragraph3 The Monkees started in a different way.

paragraph4 The Monkees became popular and how they developed a real band.

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Reading for detailed information

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Join the correct parts of the sentences together. ( Ex1 Page35) (2)

Read the text again and complete the tables. 1>

How do people get to form a band? Members High school students.

Reasons

They like to write and play their own music.

Places They practise their music in someone’s home.

Forms They may play to passers-by in the street or subway.

Results They can earn some extra money. They may also have a chance to dream of becoming famous.

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How was the Monkees formed and became a real band? Beginning It began as a TV show.

Style of the They played jokes on each other as well as played performance music.

First music and Most of them were based loosely on the Beatles. jokes

Development of They became more serious about their work and the band started to play and sing

their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music.

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Changes of the band The band broke up in about 1970,but reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996 to celebrate their time as a real band.

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Let’s come back to the title. How do you understand it? Step4 Listening

Listen to the tape and follow it and underline your difficulties. Then discuss to solve the problems. Step5 Discussion Ask students to discuss the following questions in groups: 1. Do you think the TV organizers were right to call the Monkees a band when they did not write or sing their own songs? Give reasons.

2. In your opinion, what is the most important thing for a successful band? Why? Step6 Consolidation

Ask students to retelling the passage with the following key words: ( PPT ) 1. be honest with, dream of, form a band, earn extra money, give a chance, realize, dreams 2. a band started in a different way, play jokes on, music and jokes, be based on, the Monkees, play instruments, write their own music, break up, reunite, popular

Step7 Homework 1. Learn the useful new words and expressions by heart. 2. Read the reading passage again and finish off the exercises on the Page 35.

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