Module 6 Unit 4 Music
An Interview with Liu Fang
Teaching Design
Ⅰ. Lead-in
Watch a short video about Liu Fang’s performance and enjoy her playing.
Ⅱ. Pre-reading
Imagine you have an interview with Liu Fang, and what topics will you ask?
Ⅲ. While-reading
Task 1: Read Para. 1-3 and match the time with the events.
Time Events
1974 She went to Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
1990 She went back to Kunming and worked as a pipa soloist.
1993 She moved to Canada and has been living there since then.
After graduation She was born in Kunming.
1996 She graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Task 2: Read Para. 4-6 and answer the questions.
What are the biggest challenges of playing the pipa and the guzheng?
.
What are Liu Fang’s musical influences?
.
Task 3: Read Para. 7-8 and choose the correct answers.
1. Liu Fang thinks that .
A. Chinese music is like the Chinese language
B. Chinese music and language use the same tones
C. Chinese music is different from the Chinese language
D. Chinese music is more beautiful than the Chinese language
2. Chinese classical pieces often have poetic titles, .
A. which is amusing
B. which is very surprising
C. which is impossible
D. which is understandable
3. Empty spaces in Chinese paintings .
A. mean the pictures are useless
B. mean the pictures have no life
C. are like the silent parts of Chinese music
D. are like the wonderful parts of Chinese music
Task 4: Read para.9-10 and fill in the blanks.
What does she like best about performing live?
※ She enjoys playing and performing .
※ She likes the in .
※ She also enjoys the time immediately after the concert to with friends and music lovers, listening to their and about the music.
What are her goals as an artist?
※ She hopes to work with from other musical traditions and to be able to
her own music.
※ She also wishes to classical Chinese pipa and guzheng music to
.
IV. Post-reading
Introduce Liu Fang to your partner
international music star, famous for
When she was 15… After graduation…
The biggest challenge… The main influence…
She says Chinese music is similar to…
She enjoys…She wishes…
(After this activity, I also design role-playing, ask students to use the questions what, when, how why…to make their own dialogue, one student acts as a reporter, and the other students acts as a reporter.)
V. Discussion
1. Do you think Liu Fang is successful as a musician?
2. What made Liu Fang’s success?
VI. Homework
Write an introduction of your favorite singer or band. (80-100 words).
课件19张PPT。Welcome to my class!An Interview with
Liu FangPara.1-3197419901993After
graduation1996She was born in Kunming.She went to Shanghai
Conservatory of Music.She graduated from
Shanghai Conservatory of Music.She went back to Kunming
and worked as a pipa soloist.She moved to Canada
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A. Chinese music is like the Chinese language
B. Chinese music and language use the same tones
C. Chinese music is different from the Chinese language
D. Chinese music is more beautiful than the Chinese language2. Chinese classical pieces often have poetic titles,
＿＿＿＿＿＿＿.
A. which is amusing
B. which is very surprising
C. which is impossible
D. which is understandable 3. Empty spaces in Chinese paintings ＿＿＿.
A. mean the pictures are useless
B. mean the pictures have no life
C. are like the silent parts of Chinese music
D. are like the wonderful parts of Chinese music
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When she was 15… After graduation…
The biggest challenge… The main influence…
She says Chinese music is similar to…
She enjoys…She wishes… 1. Do you think Liu Fang is successful as a musician?
2. What made Liu Fang’s success?Discussionfamily backgroundeducational backgroundopportunitiespersonal effortsChances favors the prepared mind.
（机会总是垂青有准备的人） We can’t choose our birth but we can choose the road of growth.
As a student, your goal now is to be admitted into an ideal university! If so, you will stand at a higher point.Ideal Universitypositive attitudeintelligencehard workstrong willSelf-EvaluationWrite an introduction of your favorite singer or band (80-100 words)
HomeworkThanks for your listening!
