高二英語Music教案
step 3. while-reading activities
read the passage and answer the following questions:
1. what are the grammy awards given for?
2. how many categories are there in the awards?3. how do they decide to whom such an award should be given?
4. why is the word called a grammy?5. what do some people think of the award?
6. is it easy or difficult for the musicians from the rest of the world to win a grammy prize? why?
answers: ⑴ they are given for important achievements in recorded music. ⑵ there are 105 categories in the awards.
⑶ the awards depend on how many votes each artist receives from members of the recording academy. besides, they are given for many different reasons, not only for selling a lot of albums.
⑷ because winners receive a statuette in the shape of a gramophone, an old fashioned hi-fi system.
⑸they think the grammys are not as important as they used to be. ⑹it’s very difficult for musicians from the rest of the world to win a grammy prize. because there are only two awards for world music in a separate set of awards for latin music.
step 4. post-reading activities
have a discussion on the following questions:
1. in what way are the grammys similar to the film academy( the oscars)?
2. if there were grammy awards for chinese music, what categories would you like to see?
3. are the grammy awards important? why?step 5. homework
1. revise what learnt in this module.
2. finish off the rest of the exercises of this module.