Module 4 Music Born in America
(7) technique (8) brought the idea with them (9) playing
(10) including (11) longer (12) side by side
(13) at the beginning (14) later (15) at the same time
(16) firstly (17) secondly (18) took advantage of
(19) the first time (20) the style soon spread to other parts of the united states.
step 5. speaking
1. ask ss to discuss what they have learnt in the reading passage.
2. ask ss to try to use their own words to retell the passage, the topic is the origins of hip hop.
step 6. homework
1. ask ss to review what we have learnt today.
2. ask ss to finish activity 2,3, 5, 6 on page 45-46.
period 3 listening, everyday english, function
teaching goals:
1. to enable ss to know some skills of listening;
2. to study some daily expressions;
3. to learn some expressions of comparing the present and the past.
teaching procedures:
step 1. revision
check the answers to the answers of activities 2, 3, 5, 6 on pages 45~46.
step 2. listening
1. let ss finish activity 1 on page 49 to learn the some new instructions.
2. ask ss to listen to the conversation and finish activity 2 on page 49.
3. ask ss to listen to the tape and fill in the missing words.
fx noisy music
mother: can you turn that down a bit?
daughter: ____(1)____
mother: turn down the music, please? it’s too ____(2)____?
daughter: sorry! i can’t hear you. wait a minute!
fx music turned down.
daughter: sorry, mum. what did you say?
mother: ____(3)____
daughter: oh! sorry! ____(4)____
mother: i’m not surprised.
daughter: ____(5)____
mother: i’m not surprised that you couldn’t hear me.
daughter: was i playing the music too loud?
mother: yes, you were.
daughter: sorry. ____(6)____
mother: what are you listening to?
daughter: a new american hip hop band.
mother: they’re very loud.
daughter: yes. great, aren’t they?
mother: what are they called?
daughter: ____(7)____. it isn’t my cd, it’s my friend angela’s.
mother: well, they aren’t my cup of tea. bands are so much noisier than they used to be.
daughter: ____(8)____ i listened to one of your cds ____ (9)____. it was really loud!
mother: well, when i was your age, we didn’t listen to such loud music.
daughter: ____(10)____
mother: we didn’t!
daughter: really?
mother: all right, we did. but we didn’t play music as loudly as you do these days.