B2U5 课文1 预习学案

[在此处键入] 1 Unit 5 Music

The virtual choir

StepⅠLead in:

1. What are the ways for people to experience music?

2. How can the Internet help us experience music differently?

Step Ⅱ Predict the main idea of the passage

Look at the title and the pictures, and then predict what the passage will be about.

Q: What will be talked about?

Step Ⅲ Fast reading tasks

Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.

• Paragraph 1:

• Paragraph 2:

• Paragraph 3:

• Paragraph 4:

Step Ⅳ Careful reading tasks

1．阅读文章第一段，判断正误：

Ⅰ Only ordinary people can take part in a virtual choir. ( )

Ⅰ Music makes people become a member of the global community. ( )

2．阅读文章第二段，回答下列问题：

ⅠWhen did Whitacre start to like Mozart's classical music?

ⅠWhat made Whitacre become popular among choirs and singers?

3．阅读文章第三、四段，判断正误：

①Whitacre joind his fans together into one performance team. ( )

②The Virtual Youth Choir began on stage in 2014 in the world. ( )

③The virtual choir is a wonderful way for people around the world to sing with many voices.( )

4. Read the text quickly and fill in the form.

2 January 19______ Eric Whitacre was born. [在此处键入] 2 19________—1995 Whitacre attended the University of Nevada，Las Vegas.

19________ Whitacre got a master’s degree from the Juilliard School in New York.

2009 Whitacre first got the idea for the virtual choir.His first virtual choir used ____________singers from____________different countries；received more than ____________________views on the Internet.

________July, 2014 Whitacre formed the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF，____________ young people from ____________countries sang “what If”.

5. It is proved that a virtual choir has a ____________influence on the lives of many people.

A．pessimistic B．Positive C．negative D．neutral

Step Ⅴ Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text．

1. These videos are uploaded onto the Internet, and then they are put together into one video that

you can see online—a virtual choir. (Para. 1)

2. Anyone can take part in a virtual choir from anywhere—all you need is a video camera and an

Internet connection. (Para. 1)

3. As one virtual choir member said, “Music helps me to ... forget my problems. With music, I

become someone else.”(Para. 1)

4. Moved by this music, he said, “It was like seeing color for the first time.”(Para. 2)

5. Inspired, he asked his fans to make videos, which he then joined together into one performance.

(Para. 3)

6. Whitacre’s next effort was the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF, which was first seen on stage

on 23 July 2014 in the UK.(Para. 3)

Step Ⅵ Post-reading

Eric Whitacre was born in the USA 1.___________ on January 2,1970.when he studied music at

the University of Nevada in 1988，he fell in love 2.__________ with Mozart’s classical

music.3.__________ Moved (move)by his music，he said that it was like seeing color for the first time. [在此处键入] 3 After 4. __________graduating/graduation (graduate)from university in 1995，he received his master’s

degree in 1997.Over the next 10 years，Whitacre’s 5__________ original (origin)compositions began to

become quite popular among choirs and singers,6. __________which led to the creation of the virtual

choir.

When he received a video of a girl who was singing one of his 7.__________works (work)in 2009，he

asked his fans 8.__________ to make (make)videos，which he then joined together into one

performance. Since then，the virtual choir 9.__________ has become (become)a worldwide

phenomenon. It has proved to be 10.__________a positive influence on the lives of many people.