1. NEW SENIOR ENGLISH FOR CHINA
STUDENT’S BOOK 2
人民教育出版社

2. 课件说明: 课件名称: Music 教材: 英语 高一(下) 人民教育出版社 教学目的: 1. 增加学生的音乐知识；
2. 发展学生的阅读理解能力；
3. 鼓励学生用英语进行交际。
教学理念：任务型教学法
课件类型：课堂演示型
制作工具：PowerPoint 2003

3. Unit 5
MUSIC

4. Through human history, the role music played is always important, because music always gives people pleasure, aesthetic enjoyment and spiritual relaxation…

5. Discussion Classical music Rock’n’ Roll Orchestra Rap Folk Music Jazz
After years, music has developed into many categories, please from groups of four and find out what they are.
Classical music
Rock’n’ Roll
Orchestra
Rap
Folk Music
Jazz
Country music
Choral
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6. Now let’s listen to some music and guess what they are
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7. Now let’s listen to some music and guess what they are
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8. Now let’s listen to some music and guess what they are
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9. Now let’s listen to some music and guess what they are
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10. Country music
Country Music or Country-and-Western Music, major genre of American popular music, primarily produced by white Southerners beginning in the early 1920s. Born out of the folk music of Southern Appalachia, country music encompasses the styles known as Western swing, honky-tonk, bluegrass, rockabilly, and new country.
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11. Orchestra
Orchestra, ensemble of musical instruments; in the narrowest sense, the characteristic ensemble of Western music, having as its core a group of bowed-string instruments of the violin family, augmented by woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments. Orchestra can also refer to various specialized ensembles, such as a balalaika orchestra, a jazz orchestra (see Band), or a gamelan (Indonesian tuned-percussion orchestra).
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12. Choral
Choral Music, music sung by a group of people, using two or more singers to perform each musical line.
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13. Classical music
Classical Music, popular term for the Western tradition of art music that began in Europe in the Middle Ages and continues today. It includes symphonies, chamber music, opera, and other serious, artistic music.
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14. Fast Reading
Read the passage THE BAND THAT WASN’T and match the following:
1.They produced a new record in 1996
A. but reunited in the mid-1980s
2.Most musician get together and
B. was a big hit
C. to celebrate their time as a band.
3.The first TV show
4.However, the band broke up about 1970,
D. from a band because they like to write and play music.

15. Detailed Reading
Read the passage again more carefully and find out the answers for the following questions:
1. How did the TV show organized?
2. Why they had to use actors for other members of the band?
3. After several years, “The Monkees” become more serious about their work, but in what way did they show their seriousness?

16. Because they could only find one that was good enough.
1. How did the TV show organized?
The musicians of whom the band was formed played jokes on each other as well as played music.
2. Why they had to use actors for other members of the band?
Because they could only find one that was good enough.
3. After several years, “The Monkees” become more serious about their work, but in what way did they show their seriousness?
“The Monkees” started to play their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band.

17. Role Play
Please from groups of two and imitate the following situation: you are going to go to a concert with your partner tonight, but there are several kinds of concerts for you to choose and your partner do not share the same idea with you, try to convince he/her to accept your idea by stating out the reasons for your preference and come out with a final decision. Later, we would like to have two or three groups to act out their performances.

18. Assignment
Find out the definitions of other categories of music, such as Rock’n’ Roll, Rap, Jazz, Folk music. Search for two or three songs for each of them.
Write a letter to your friend, try to invite he/her to go to a concert with you. Give he/her some suggestions and explain your own preference. (150 words)

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