P eriod 1 Reading
The General Idea of This Period :
This p eriod in eludes Warming up, Readi ng and Comp rehe nding of Un it 5.lt in troduces different kinds of music and a band called “ The Monk ees' .Students will enlarge their knowledge of music by liste ning to
the music.Mea nwhile stude nts can lear n how The Mon kees got successful by some reading strategies such as s-kimming , scanning, and intensive reading.Students should think carefully about the outlook on society and on personal value after readi ng the story of The Monkees.Students will realize the importanee of hard work , right attitude towards work, and bravery on meet ing the challe nge.
Teaching Aims：
1.Tra in the stude nts'eadi ng ability.
2.Learn some useful words , expressions and some important sentences.
classical, folk , form , passer-by, earn, extra, instrument, pretend, hit, dream of, be honest with , play jokes on , be based on, put on advertisement, or so, be serious about, break up
a.Have you ever dreamed of being in front of thousa nds of people at a concert , with every one clapping and enjoying your singing?
b.lf we are honest with ourselves , most of us have dreamed of being famous.
c....ba nds are formed by high school stude nts who p ractise their music in some one ' home.
d.They may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra mon ey.
e.The musicia ns of whom the band was formed p layed jokes on each other as well as p layed music.
f.Their music and jokes were based loosely on the band called “The Beatles” .
g.Act-ors may not be able to sing so at first other musicia ns sang the songs for the p rogramme while the band p rete nded to sing them.
h.However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work.
3. E nable the stude nts to sum up the main idea of each p aragra ph.
4.Ex press their opinion by an sweri ng the questi ons.
Teaching Important Points :
1.He Ip the stude nts to un dersta nd the p assage better.
2.Lear n and master some imp orta nt words and p hrases in this p eriod.
3.HeIp the students to understand the details of the text by helping them to answer the follow ing questi ons.
Teaching Difficult Points :
1.How to help the stude nts imp rove their readi ng ability and un dersta nd the p assage better.
2.How to master the important Ian guage points in this p assage.
3.How to help the stude nts exp ress their ideas on the two questi ons.
a.Do you think the TV organizers were right to call “The Monkees "a band when they did not
sing or write their own son gs?Why?
b.Do you agree that the jokes were more important than the music for this band?Give a reas on.
Teaching Methods:
