高二英語Music教案

2.listening, talking and sharing
let’s listen to some pieces of music from different bands. work in groups of four. tell your group mates which band you like best. why? then the group leader is to stand up and share the group idea with the class.
for reference: i am from group 1. our group likes “the beatles” best. we like their style of performances. listening to their performances, we will feel relaxed, amused, and their performances make us think a lot about life.
do you know anything about “the monkees”?
for reference: “the monkees” is a band that was first popular in the 1960s in america. unlike most bands of the time, the monkees were not formed by its members but rather by tv producers. they were a fictional band in the tv show of the same name. the band was composed of mike nesmith, mickey dolenz, davy jones, and peter tork. all the members had some musical experience. let’s come to the reading --- the band that wasn’t and find more about them.
iii. reading
1.reading aloud to the recording
now please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text the band that wasn’t. pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. i will play the tape twice and you shall read aloud twice, too.
2.reading and underlining
next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. copy them to your notebook after class as homework.
collocations from the band that wasn’t
dream of doing , at a concert , with sb. clapping and enjoying …, sing karaoke , be honest with oneself, get to form a band, high school students, practice one’s music, play to passers-by, in the subway, earn some extra money, begin as a tv show, play jokes on…, be based loosely on…, the tv organizers, make good music, put an advertisement in a newspaper, look for rock musicians, pretend to do sth., the attractive performances, be copied by…, support them fiercely, become more serious about…, play their own instruments, produce one’s own records, start touring, break up, in the mid-1980s, a celebration of one’s time as a real band
3.reading to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph
skim the text and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. you may find it either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the paragraph.
1st paragraph: how do people get to form a band?
2nd paragraph: most musicians meet and form a band.
3rd paragraph: one band started as a tv show.
4th paragraph: “the monkees” became even more popular than “the beatles”.