 Music is fun and for your spirit ! Without music,life is a journey through a desert.

Warming-up  Listen to the different kinds of music on the tape and guess what kind of it is.

 Choral

 Country music

Rap

 Folk music

 Rock’n’ Roll

 Classical music

Jazz

 Orchestra

Classical music Rock’n’RollOrchestraRap Folk musicJazz Country music Choral

Pre--reading 1.Have you heard about any of the famous bands in the world ? 2.Which one do you like best ?Why? 3.Do you know anything about “The Monkees”?

Fast-reading  Read the text quickly and finish the following task.  What is the topic sentence in each paragraph?

Detail reading Read the passage again then finish the following questions  1.why do most musicians like to be in a band with others?  2.which two musical bands are mentioned in the passage?  3.How do some bands formed by high school students earn extra money?  4.when the Monkees break up?

Listening  If we are__________ ourselves,most of us have__________being famous sometimes in our lives.Most musicians often meet and _______a band. Sometimes they play in the street to ____________so that they can earn some _______money and this also gives them a ________to realize their dreams.There was once a band started in a different way.The musicians of whom the band was formed __ _______ _____ ______each other as well as played music,whose music and jokes were loosely ________”The Beatles”.Their exciting performances were copied by other groups.”The Monkees” played their own _________and wrote their own music.Though it __________in 1970,it reunited in the mid— 1980s and it is still popular today. honest with dreamed of form Passers- - by extrachance played jokes on based on instruments broke up

Task1 Retell the text according to the following information. 1.be honest with dream of form a band earn extra money give a chance 2.a band started in a different way play jokes on music and jokes be base on The Monkees play instruments write their own music break up reunite

Group discussion  How to form your own band ?

 Homework:  Please collect some information about your favourite music.

Good bye!!!  Thanks for listening!