1. ORAL ENGLISH SUPERSTITION, TV, Reading, Music and Musicians
Professor: Casimir
Week6, Lesson 5 and 6
3/27-31/14

2. MIDTERM TOPICS: PICK ONE TOPIC TO PREPARE – 3 MINUTES
Your definition of beauty (unit 2)
Animal or human cloning (unit 3
Genetically modified foods (unit 3)
The college entry exam
The one child policy in China
Superstition (unit 4)
Your definition of success (unit 6)
Remember, this is a 3 minute talk: No less than 2.5 & no more than 3 minutes
You must use 1 or 2 visual aid (s)during your presentation

3. OBJECTIVES:
During this session, students should be able to discuss their favorite TV program, books, music types, reading and sharing personal views on music, expressing preferences (personal taste and style of music), listening to people’s opinion about music, vocabulary on music, comparing and contrasting view on music, reading on the Beatles and Rolling Stones, comparing and contrasting ideas. Grammar focus: Double comparatives. Drills: Linking, articulation and intonation. Game: vocabulary Game and “What music is best”

4. ROLLING STONES:

5. TELEVISION AND READING
If you had a choice between reading and television for entertainment, which one will you pick and why?

6. Page 36 Exercise A: Read these blog posts about TV programs.
WHAT’S ON?
Page 36 Exercise A: Read these blog posts about TV programs.
Which program would you like the most to watch / the least?
Why?

7. SOME POPULAR BOOKS

8. Answer in full sentence!
SPEAKING ON READING
What is your favorite book type and why?
Answer in full sentence!

9. What role does reading plan in your life?
READING TODAY
Read the opinion listed about reading on page 40 (starting point), do you agree or disagree with these comments?
What role does reading plan in your life?

10. LISTENING: BENEFITS FROM READING
CD #22-23
Practical things view points escape
Other countries writing style creative writing

11. DISCUSSION: TELEVISION PROGRAMS
What are your favorite TV programs? What do you like about them?
Answer in full sentences!

12. Class: What talent do you have in music? DO you play any instrument?
FIVE BEST SONGS
Pair works: What are the five best songs from the past three years? Make a list of songs you agree on.
Class: What talent do you have in music? DO you play any instrument?

20. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC/MUSICIAN? WHY?

21. SAMPLE SITCOM

22. SOAP OPERA CLIP
Sample of soap opera

23. MUSICALS!

24. VOCABULARY EXERCISES
Page 36 and 40 Exercise A and B

25. READING: BOOK REVIEW Scan Read Read and answer questions page 43
Do exercise A-C in pairs

26. Follow with the hand out given in class!
DRILLS ON LINKING
Follow with the hand out given in class!

27. DRILLS ON LINKING
What is linking?

28. TONGUE TWISTER: B AND BL
A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled blood.
This black bug bled blue-black blood while the other black bug bled blue.

29. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
Music by Beatles/Rolling Stone

30. Awesome Latin beat Jam- pack Exhilarating Frenetic Evocative Haunting
VOCABULARY:
Awesome Latin beat Jam- pack
Exhilarating Frenetic
Evocative Haunting
Mellow Soothing
Soft jazz Soundtrack
Clean cut Cutting edge

31. VOCABULARY --UNIT 4 Game show Sport programs Talk show
Soap Opera sketch comedy clichéd
Reality TV cooking show hilarious
Cartoon Sitcom jam packed
Genuine mediocre gripping
viewer convincingly formulaic
Documentary News program
Drama series

32. Monotonous Classical-opera Orchestra Nursery rhymes Boutique Overplay
VOCABULARY-UNIT 5
Catchy punk rock
Monotonous Classical-opera
Orchestra Nursery rhymes
Boutique Overplay
Rock and roll Disco
Pop music Rap Hip Hop

33. WHO DOES THIS WORD REMINDS YOU OF?
Awesome Latin beat
Exhilarating Frenetic
Evocative Haunting
Mellow Soothing
Soft jazz Soundtrack
Clean cut Cutting edge

34. VOCABULARY: DESCRIBING MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
Pair: Do Exercises A and B, p 46 and 48

35. DISCUSSION: MUSIC PREFERENCES
Group: Do exercises A & B
Class: Exercise C page 46

36. TYPES OF MUSIC
Classical Rock and Roll
Country Soft Rock
Pop Easy Listening
Disco Blues
Reggae Punk rock
Blue Grass Orchestra

37. COUNTRY

38. MY FAVORITE SINGER IS: CARRIE UNDERWOOD

39. BLUE GRASS

40. REGGAE

41. DISCO

42. JAZZ

43. CLASSICAL

44. MUSICAL: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: MUSICAL!
If I were a rich man!”

45. ROCK AND ROLL: ROLLING STONES:

46. IDIOMS IN THE MUSIC WORLD PG 48

47. MUSIC
What’s your favorite music style and why?

48. What is your music taste?
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
What is your music taste?
What kind of things do you look for in a new song or an artist?

49. LISTENING: AWESOME TUNES
Listen to CD
1. Do exercise A
2. Do exercise B complete the chart! Page 44

50. GRAMMAR FOCUS: DOUBLE COMPARATIVES
In double comparative, a conditional relationship is expressed. The condition is always expressed in the first clause.
The verb “to be” is optional in the first clause.
“The more I practice my guitar, which one Is the
the better I become” conditional clause?

51. GRAMMAR: DOUBLE COMPARATIVES
In pair: Exercise B and C, page 45

52. LISTENING: POPULAR TV PROGRAMS
CD # 20 and 21 What is the reason for their successes?

53. LISTENING: GUITAR BLUES PAGE 50
CD # 26-27
LISTENING: GUITAR BLUES PAGE 50

54. DISCUSSION: SECRET OF SUCCESS PAGE 50
What is the secret to their success: the TV shows, Comedies, famous writers, musicians and Singers.
What do they have in common?
What is your definition of Success?

55. READING: THE BEATLES VS. THE ROLLING STONES
Scan and look up new words
Read quietly
Do Exercise A, and B

56. GAME: WHAT IS THE BEST MUSIC?
Group: You are working for a company that specializes in making music al decisions for public events. Three choices are given for each case scenario. Discuss & pick the most appropriate music style to be played for each public event.
10 mins

57. HOMEWORK:
Prepare to talk about your favorite singer/ musician/TV program or book for 1 minute next week: what is special about it/ why you like him or her, how did he or she begin a career in music and where is he or she now? OR
Or watch a movie of your choice, be ready to share!
Grammar: Page 37, 45, 49: exercises B and C
Read Unit 6-7 for next session and CD self study
Midterm on 4/7-10/2014