外研社必修三 Period 1 Introduction and Reading

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第 1 页 共 4 页 Aims and requirements

●To enable the students to listen and talk about likes and dislikes (especially about music and

musicians),encouraging them to try the vocabulary and everyday English in this unit

●To develop the students’ reading ability

●To help the students learn and use two grammars (adverbial clause of time and the past perfect

tense) in different situations

●To help the students to write a biography of a person, using the time expressions in Grammar 1

Teaching procedures

Period 1: Introduction and Reading

Step 1: Warming up

1. Warming up by listening pieces of music and asking questions

Play several pieces of music (music from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven will be best) to let the

students listen and appreciate, then ask them:

1) Do you like music?

2) What about these pieces?

3) What is your favorite kind of music?

4) Who is your favorite musician? And who is your favorite composer?

Then make a brief introduction about these three composers, meanwhile get the students to know

the differences between the words: musician; composer; singer; performer

2. Warming up by showing some pictures and discussing

Hello boys and girls, I have some pictures (any pictures which are related with music will be OK)

here to show you:

1) Do you know who they are?

2) What kind of things are these pictures connected with, science, culture, politics, painting,

drawing or music?

Of course they are all connected with music. Sunnan, Chinese singer; Justin Derrick has just

joined multi-platinum singer Pink for upcoming 2006 European and US tour dates; and very

famous opera Cat King. So, you may have guessed that today we’re going to learn something

about music, and now I would like you to think：what kind of music do you like best? Why? What

does a composer usually do? Please discuss this topic with your partner.

3. Warming up by telling a story

Good morning, class. Today we are going to read a passage about three great musicians who are

all composers. A composer is a musician who writes pieces of music for others to sing or to play. 学英语报社 金色教案 全新课标理念，优质课程资源

第 2 页 共 4 页 But first I’d like to share an interesting story which is also about music with you. (When telling

this story, it’s better to play a CD of traditional Chinese music such as “高山流水” and “阳春白雪”

as the background music.)

In ancient China there was a famous musician, Zhong Ziqi, who played Gu qin very well, but very

few people could understand his music. One day he was playing the instrument in a quiet place.

He did it so attentively that he made no notice of anything around. When he played to mean high

mountains, a person cried out: “ Ah, great mountains!” When he played to mean the running water,

the person burst out: “Yeah, the water is running.” Zhong Ziqi was too moved to continue his

playing. This very person was Yu Boya who also loved music very much. After that they became

very good friends and usually discussed musical problems or played music together. It was said

that Zhong Ziqi broke his Guqin after he got the news that Yu Boya died, and from then on he

never played any music. It is known to us later as the Chinese saying: “高山流水有知音” and “钟子期摔琴以谢知音”.

Well, the three musicians mentioned in the passage also had friendship with each other. If we want

to know what indeed it happened and how they thought of each other, we will have to learn the

text. Please open your books and turn to page22.

Step 2: Pre-reading

1. Imagining and sharing

Well, almost every one of us hopes to have a “zhiyin(知音)”. Just imagine somewhere sometime

you meet your favorite musician. What will happen? Please come and tell the class your

imaginational story. Let’s share.

2. Introduce some new words

Show the following new words from the text and ask the students to read them all together twice,

correcting their pronunciation while they read each word.

court director genius

harpsichord

impressed lose

musical

peasant piece(of music) singer successful symphony

talent teenager

Ok, we are to have a small organization quiz. Read each word, think about its meaning and

function, and then make them go to its proper group.

1) Noun Group: __________________________________________________________

2) Adjective Group: _______________________________________________________

3) Verb group: ____________________________________________________________

4) Other group: ___________________________________________________________

Keys:

1) Noun Group: director; composer; singer; musician; peasant; teenager; genius; talent; court;