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3. Music styles: : Pop music : Hip-hop music : Rock music : Rap music : Blues music : Jazz music

4. piano

5. cello( 大提琴）

6. violin

7. saxophone

8. guitar

9. Musical instruments: piano, violin, guitar, cello( 大 提琴） saxophone( 萨克斯）, and so on

10. Unit 11 The Sounds of the World ByMichael

11. Listening: How many styles of music are mentioned in the passage? What are they? Listen to the tape and answer:

12. Music mentioned: Music styles blues jazz hip-hop rap rock Latin

13. Scanning Read the passage carefully by yourselves and find out the topic sentences of each paragraph.

14. Topic sentences: Para 1. There is a world of music out there. Para 2. Blues music has a long history. Para 3. Today’s American culture contains many different musical styles. Para 4. Latin music has spread all over the world. Para 5. Here is a wide variety of new music to be discovered in every corner of the world.

15. Questions: 1.Where does blues come from?How about jazz and rock music? 2.What does the word “rap” mean? 3.What’s the characteristic of hip-hop music? 4.Why is Latin music so popular in the US? Is it popular in China?

16. Blues comes from African songs. Jazz and rock music come from blues music. 1.Where does blues come from?How about jazz and rock music?

17. 2. What does the word “rap” mean? In a rap music, the singer or “rapper” will speak or “rap” the words along with the beat.

18. 3.What’s the characteristic of hip-hop music? Hip –hop music often combines parts of other styles to create music that will help people hear new things in old music.

19. 4.Why is Latin music so popular in the US? Is it popular in China? Latin music is so popular in the US partly because of the fact that the US has a large Spanish-speaking people,but also because of the success of such artist as Santana and Ricky Martin. And of course, it is also popular in our China.

20. Do the “true” or “false” exercises: 1.There are only a few styles of music in the world. 2.Blues is a new style of music. 3. Hip –hop and rap are completely different from blues and rock. 4.Santana is a well-know Latin music artist. 5.Rappers sing the words to their music. 6.There are many Spanish-speaking people in both North and South America. F F F F T T

21. Tell me how these two songs make you feel after you have enjoyed them: Which one do you like better? What’re your feelings about these two songs? Discussion :

23. Two songs, two kinds of music styles. The first one---- The cup of life: Powerful, active, encouraged The second one--- Heal the world: Peaceful, affection, passion

24. Read the passage again, and write a short passage, tell me which kinds of music styles do you prefer and why. Homework

25. See you!