牛津版高中英语Module 8 Unit 2 Wordpower Musical instruments教案

M8? U2 ?Wordpower?? Musical instruments
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Teaching objectives:
1.Knowledge: Musical instruments
2.Ability: Listening, reading, speaking and writing
3.Emotions: Appreciate the most beautiful music and their composers and learn the spirits of composers.
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Teaching approaches
1.Student-centered method;
2.Task-based method
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Teaching procedures
Step I: Lead-in:
1.Play a piece of music and ask students to tell the difference.
2.Ask students to guess the meaning of ‘a universal language’.
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Step II: Ability training1
Task 1: Listening skills
Have students listen to a song in different languages carefully.
Task 2: Vocabulary learning
1.Different styles of music
2.Categories of musical instruments
Task 3: Speaking
First let students listen to a conversation about music and then ask them to discuss their favorite ones.
Task 4: Reading skills
Have students read a passage on?Beethoven?and fill in the blank with proper sentences.
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Step III: Knowledge extension
1.Other universal languages
2.Encouraging representatives in related fields like?Beethoven
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Step IV: Ability training2:
Task 5: Writing
Have students write one or two sentences about the encouraging people in different fields.
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Step V: Homework
Have students review the words of musical instruments and write a short composition about an encouraging person so as to learn his spirits and follow his example.
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M8? U2? Wordpower?? Musical instruments
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Read a passage on Beethoven and fill in the blank with proper sentences.
The Deaf Composer
Although Beethoven could sit down and make up music easily,?No.1________________. They cost him a great deal of hard work. We know how often he rewrote and corrected his work because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries. He always found it hard to satisfy himself.
When he was 28,?No.2________________. He began to notice a strange humming（嗡嗡声）in his ears. At first he paid little attention ; but it grew worse, and at last he went to the doctors. They gave him the worst news any musician can hear:?No.3________________. Beethoven was in despair; he was sure that he was going to die.
He went away to the country, from where he wrote a long letter saying goodbye to his brothers. In this he told them?No.4________________. He longed to die, and said to death, “Come when you will, I shall meet you bravely.”
In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying. He?No.5________________, though he could hear what he wrote only more and more faintly. He wrote his best music, the music we remember him for, after he became deaf. The music he wrote was very different from any that had been composed before. Instead of the stately（堂皇的）music that earlier musicians had written for their wealthy listeners, Beethoven wrote stormy, exciting, revolutionary music, which?No.6________________.Because of his courage and determination to overcome his terrible disaster, his music has given joy and inspiration to millions of people.
A. gathered his courage and went on writing music,
B. he was gradually going deaf. Beethoven was in despair
C. his really great compositions did not come easily at all
D. reminds us of his troubled but courageous life
E. how depressed and lonely his deafness had made him
F. the worst difficulty of all came to him