M2Unit 5 Music
Reading: The Band That Wasn’t
教学设计
Before class:
The whole class will be divided into four groups, with six members in each group. Four leaders will be chosen according to their English capacity and their personalities in order to better adjust to various class activities.
One student will present a class report about music, from which students will have a general idea about different types of music.
During class:
Procedure
Students’ activities
Teacher’s activities
Directions
Warm-up&
Leading-in
(3mins)
Students enjoy a song from one of their classmates to have a general idea of today’s topic.
Students get the idea of “bands” and share their favorite bands to the whole class.
Students guess which band is the teacher’s favorite.
Invite a volunteer to sing a song in front of the whole class in order to introduce the topic of this unit.
Elaborate the definition of “bands” by giving an example and ask students to share their favorite bands.
Show some pictures of famous bands to students, tell students that these bands are very famous but not the teacher’s favorite, and introduce the teacher’s favorite band, “Monkees”.
导入阶段，邀请班内一名学生为大家唱一首歌，让同学们在欣赏音乐的美好的同时，明确今天的主题。同时教师引入乐队这一概念，让学生分享他们最喜欢的乐队是什么，同时猜测教师最爱的乐队，进一步引入本节课的中心。
Fast reading (4mins)
First, students read the title and guess the meaning of the title.
Second, students skim the whole passage and match each paragraph with its main idea.
First, ask students to read the tile and guess the meaning.
Second, guide students to skim the whole passage and match the main ideas.
首先让学生阅读文章题目，大胆预测文章内容，为接下来的阅读做铺垫。其次快速阅读全文，找出每个段落的大意，把握文章的整体脉络。
Detailed reading
(15mins)
Students read paragraph 2, 3 and 4 again, compare most bands with Monkees and find their different ways to succeed.
Students are given three key words and are requested to give the three words a right order for most bands and for Monkees.
Students answer two questions: What do the two ways have in common? Which way do you prefer?
Students read the title again to check their guessing and think why the author used it as the title.
Ask students to read paragraph 2, 3 and 4 again, compare most bands with Monkees and find their different ways to succeed.
Request students to use the three given words to give the right order of the two different ways of success.
Ask students to answer the following two questions: What do the two ways have in common? Which way do you prefer?
Guide students to read the title again to check their guessing and ask students to think why the author used it as the title.
首先让学生仔细阅读第2,3,4段，比较普通乐队和门基乐队成功道路的差异。其次让学生用三个相同但顺序不同的关键词总结这两条成功之路。总结完毕之后，学生能够清晰的看到二者有一定的相同之处，让学生陈述是什么地方相同，他们又倾向于哪一种方式。这两个问题的设置，一方面让学生明白成功道路不尽相同，但是成功路上需要的很多品质却是相似的，这一点也能应用到他们的成长历程中。另一方面，能让学生将书本知识联系到自身实际，应用正确的价值观，分析自己适合哪种成功之路。对标题的再次阅读与前面形成照应，验证学生的假设，同时引导学生思考写作中题目的选择问题。
Post-reading
(15mins)
Students use the given expressions to offer advice on how to achieve one’s dreams.
Students are expected to prepare an interview based on what they have learned from the passage and from their group discussion. They will distribute their roles and tasks. In addition, students are encouraged to cooperate with each other to present their interview. Two groups will be selected to present their outcome and the other groups are supposed to give comments according to the standards.
Ask students to use the given expressions to offer advice on how to achieve one’s dreams.
Introduce the group interview to students, showing them the basic standards for their presentation and offering them necessary help. Select two groups to present their interviews and ask the rest groups to give comments and the teacher should also give students some comments according to their presentation.
学生根据任务提示进行小组活动，最后展示访谈过程和结果。在展示过程中，可充分发挥小组的合作能力，培养学生的集体意识，同时锻炼了学生的语言表达能力，辩证思维能力。在评价过程中，学生能够更加清楚自己小组的优劣之处，取长补短，以期取得更长远的进步和发展。
Summary and emotions
(3mins)
Students summarize what they have learned today.
Guide students to summarize what they have learned today. And the teacher also gives students a short summary, teaching students that they not only need dreams, but also need action to realize their dreams.
总结本节课内容，同时及时对学生进行德育教育，让学生明确个人理想的实现离不开实际行动，国家梦想的实现离不开大家的共同奋斗。
Homework
(1mins)
Students are required to read the passage again and retell the story of Monkees to their parents and write a passage about how to achieve their dreams
The teacher requires students to read the passage again and retell the story of Monkees to their parents and write a passage about how to achieve their dreams
学生学完本节课之后，对文章及时进行总结，强化认识和理解，同时结合自身实际写一篇文章，描述如何实现自己的梦想。
Quiz
(3mins)
Students are invited to finish a quiz based on their understanding of the passage.
Ask students to finish the quiz according to their understanding of the passage.
学生根据对文章内容的理解，完成小测验，检验本节课的学习效果。
After class:
Students will finish the homework and hand in their homework next day.
Group leaders will check the students’ quiz again and make a summary to the teacher.
The teacher should give the teaching reflection according to the figures from the collected papers.
说明：(1)完成当堂测试，学生明确自己的课堂学习情况，找出问题，及时沟通解决。
（2）教师课后及时反思当堂课的教学，有什么地方需要改进。
（3）课后作业，小组长总结本组情况并汇报给老师，教师及时对作业情况进行反馈。
Blackboard Layout
Unit 5 The Band That Wasn’t
I. Title: guess check Words and expressions:
II. Fast reading: main idea accidentally
III. Detailed reading: comparison
附：访谈表
Our Interview
Name
Career
Their achievements
How can they achieve dreams?
Their advice to young people.
What should we learn from them?
附：四位名人基本信息
Information you may need
Bill gates
Bill gates is an American business magnate(巨头), investor, author, and principal founder of the?Microsoft Corporation.?During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of?chairman,?CEO?and?chief software architect, while also being the largest individual?shareholder?until May 2014.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the?personal computer revolution.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg?(/?z?k?rb??rɡ/; born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of?Facebook?and is currently its chairman and?chief executive officer.
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his?Harvard University?dormitory room on February 4, 2004 with college roommates.?The group then introduced Facebook to other college campuses. Facebook expanded rapidly, reaching one billion users by 2012.
According to writer?Jose Antonio Vargas, "some kids played computer games. Mark created them." Zuckerberg himself recalls this period: "I had a bunch of friends who were artists. They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it."
In January 2014, he recalled: "You know, someone needs to build a service like this for the world. But I just never thought that we'd be the ones to help do it. Thai’s because we just cared more".
On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan announced the birth of their first daughter Max, and in an open letter to Max, they pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, to their new organization that will focus on health and education.
Ma Yun?
Ma Yun?, known professionally as?Jack Ma, is a Chinese business magnate. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of?Alibaba Group.
Ma began studying English at a young age. He would ride 70 miles on his bicycle to give tourists tours of the area to practice his English for nine years. He became?pen pals?with one of those foreigners.
Later in his youth, Ma struggled attending college. The Chinese entrance exams are held only once a year and it took Ma four years to pass. After graduation, Jack Ma applied for 30 different jobs and got rejected by all. "I went for a job with the police; they said, 'you're no good,'" "I even went to?KFC?when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. I was the only guy...".?In addition he applied 10 times for Harvard Business School (HBS) and got rejected.
In 1994, Ma heard about the Internet. In early 1995, he went to the US to get introduced to the Internet. During his first encounter he searched the word "beer". Although he found information related to beer from many countries, he was surprised to find none from China. So he and his friend created an "ugly" website related to China.?He launched the website at 9:40 AM, and by 12:30 PM he had received emails from some Chinese wishing to know about him. This is when Ma realized that the Internet had something great to offer.
Dong Qing?
Dong Qing?is a Chinese television host.?Since 2005, she has hosted the annual?CCTV New Year's Gala.
Dong hosted the?CCTV New Year's Gala?from 2005 to 2017; she did not appear on the show in 2018
In 2016, she began her plan to produce a show about reading. The first episode of her show "Readers" went on air in February 2017 and became an instant hit.
