Teaching plan
Task Making an exhibition board about a composer
大厂高级中学 王慧玲 李薇
Teaching Aims:
1. Teach students to learn how to listen for facts about people
2. Teach students to learn how to find out about people’s lives
3. Teach students to learn how to write someone’s biography
Teach steps:
Step 1: Leading-in
Give some pictures about a star who students like and ask them to think about what information they want know about the star.
Step 2: First listening
Have students to listen to Part A and complete the notes on P26. Remind students to focus only on the first column. Check the answers.
Step 3: Second listening
1. Have students to listen to Part B and fill in the blanks as many as possible.
2. Play the tape a second time and stop after each answer or sentence.
3. Check the answers.
Step 4. Reading
Ask the students to read the information about the three famous composers in Part C and then complete the chart in Part B. Then check the answers.
Step 5. Asking for further information
Have students work in pairs to do role-play activity. One asks questions and the other answers them using the question above and the prompts below. Switch roles when they finish.
Step 6 : Wring someone’s life story
1. Help the students to review the information about Mozart they have got.
2. Ask the students to use the information that they gathered to write the life story of Mozart.
Step 7 : Homework
1. Finish the exercises on P112-113
2. Recite the words of this unit
课件33张PPT。Task
Making an exhibition board about a composer 大厂高级中学 王慧玲 李薇In this section , you will learn:
How to listen for facts about people.
How to find out about people’s lives.
How to write someone’s biography.When we talk about a famous person, what information do you want to know?Skills building 1: listening for facts about peoplePlease read the guidelines and the four points on P26.When we are listening for facts about people, there are certain things that we need to listen for. These including:Dates (when they were born and died).
Places (where they were born or died).
Specific things that they did in their life (This includes dates and places such as when and where they got married or had a child, ect.).
Information about why they did something and who or what influenced them.Step 1 : taking notes on famous composersPlease read the note sheet carefully and prepare for listening. And then complete the first column----things to find out.Listeningthe USAWhat stylemarriedtheir firstinfluencedworksRead the guidelines in Part B and then fill in as many blanks as possible. Part BIn the 18th century; in AustriaEuropeClassical musicFirst piece of music at 8 in 1764;
First opera at 12 in 1768The Magic FluteIn 1840;in RussiaEuropeClassical music
Helped compose a song at 4; wrote the music for the ballet Swan LakeSwan LakeBorn in 1941; in the USAthe USAPop musicBridge over Troubled WatersPart CRead the information about the three composers and then complete the chart in Part B.On 27 January 1756In 1791Got married in 1782His father was a great influence on his life.The Marriage of Figaro; La Finta SempliceOn 7 May 184; in western RussiaIn 1893; in Saint PetersburgGot married in 1877Mozart was his favourite composer and influenced his life and workOn 13 October 1941;Recorder his first song in 1957 with his friend Garfunkel;
Earned a gold record for his first album with his firend GInfluenced by African and Brazilian musicSkills building 2: finding out about people’s livesBesides the information you have got on P26, you need more information to make your exhibition board. So you turn to a member of the school music club and ask for help. What questions will you ask him?Some examples:
Which city/country was he/she born in?
When was he/she born?
What instruments did he/she play?
When was … written?
When did she/he did?
Where did he/she die?
Did he/she have brothers/sisters? What were their names?
When did he/she get married?
Who did he/she marry?
Can you tell me any other information about him/her?
Is there anything else you can tell me about him/her?Step 2 : asking for further informationRole-play activityUse the questions above and prompts below to do the role-play activity. Switch roles.
Born in Salzburg.
Sister named Maria Anna.
Another successful opera was Don Giovanni, written in 1878.
Married Constanze Weber from Germany.
The Marriage of Figaro written in 1786.
Composed his last three symphonies/′simf?ni/ in less than 7 weeks in the summer of 1788.
Died in Vienna.Conclude:
When and where was Mozart born?
What style of music did he compose?
When did he write his first piece of music?
What famous works did he write?
When and where did he die?Skills building 3: writing someone’s life storyLet’s take Mozart for example. When you write his story on an exhibition board, what should be included in it?Start with his/her name as a title with the dates of his/her birth and death underneath.
Perhaps use a timeline to illustrate what the person did in his/her life.
Write the information in the order that it happened.
Include pictures to make it attractiveThe life story of a famous composer
________
Early years
Born________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
Achievements
Some of the famous music that he wrote included _______________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
Family
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Homework: Finish the exercises on P112-113.
2. Recite the words of this unit.Good-byeThe life story of a famous composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Early years
Born on 27 January 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Mozart showed remarkable talent in music. His father was a successful composer and served as his first musical tutor. At the age of five, Mozart started writing classical music. He composed his first opera at the age of twelve in 1768.
Achievements
Some of the famous music that he wrote included:
The Marriage of Figaro, which he wrote for the Vienna Opera, one of the world’s best-known opera houses.
Don Giovanni, another successful opera he wrote in 1787
The Magic Flute, written in 1791, just before he died later the same year.
Family
In 1782, Mozart married Constanze Weber, a young woman from Germany.The album included the song “The Sound of Silence”, which was a number one hit in the pop charts.
hit n. 打,打击;对某人的嘲讽,红极一时的人物或事物,成功; 给予某人极其良好的印象
eg. That was a direct hit on an enemy ship.
That last remark was a hit at me.
Her new film is quite a hit.
You’ve made quite a hit with Bill.2. Simon and Garfunkel split up in 1970.
split (split, split)
split up: break sth into parts, divide and share sth
eg. They split up the money between them.
他们把钱分了。
For the purpose of the survey we’ve split the town into four areas.
为了便于调查，我们把这个镇划成四个区。
split up with sb 与某人绝交
eg. Jenny and Joe have split up.
珍妮和乔闹翻了．Useful expressions:
At the age of
Develop his interest in
Make friends with
Split up
Transatlantic voyage
Get married to sb=marry sb
