1、The Second Period ListeningTeaching goals 教学目标 1. Target language 目标语言a. 重点词汇和短语 turn up, turn down, turn off, turn on, loud, loudly, extract, used to do / be, a bitb. 功能句式 Bands are so much noisier than they used to be.When I was your age, we didnt listen to such loud music. We didnt use to play mu
2、sic as loudly as you do these days.We used to spend much more time in the open air than you do.2. Ability goals 能力目标To learn some verb phrases related to music and expressions of comparing the present and the past. 3. Learning ability goals学能目标 Help the students learn how to compare the present and
3、the past with the target language. Teaching important and difficult points 教学重难点How to use the functional items in various situations. Teaching methods 教学方法Listening, matching and inductive method.Teaching aids 教具准备 A recorder, a multiple-media computer.Teaching procedures & ways 教学过程与方式Step I Revis
4、ion Check the homework. T: Good morning, boys and girls! First, let me check your homework. Whod like to show us the chart you have finished?Show a students homework on the screen and check it with the whole class. Type of musicPlace of originTime of originDescriptionGospel musicUS, in the southernI
5、n the 19th centuryStrong, rhythmicSoul musicUS, southern to northern statesA mixture of blues, gospel, a little rock, rollJazzAfrican-American musicians in New OrleansIn the early 20th centuryImprovisation, syncopationBluesAfrican Americans in the southern USIn the late 19th and early 20th centuryA
6、single line repeated using guitar, piano, harmonicaHip hop?T: Great. You are not able to find the information about hip hop from the passage, right? It doesnt matter. We will learn about this type of music later. I think it is now very popular among young people. After you learn the part of READING
7、AND VOCABULARY, you will be able to finish the chart. So keep this chart. Step Pre-listeningDeal with Activity 1 on Page 49. Get the students prepared for listening. T: Now we are going to listen to a conversation. Before we start the listening part, lets look at Activity 1 on Page 49. Can you match
8、 the instructions on the left with the meanings on the right?S1: Let me try, please. “turn the music up” should go with “make it louder”.S2: I think “turn the music down” ought to match “make the music quieter”. S3: I guess “turn the music on” means “start playing the music”.S4: In my opinion “turn
9、the music off” has the same meaning as “stop playing the music”.T: Wonderful job. Please remember the four verb phrases about music. Write the following on the Bb. Then ask some students to make sentences with them. turn the music up turn the music downturn the music on turn the music offStep While-
10、ListeningT: Now please turn to Page 49, lets do some listening. Listen to the tape for the first time and choose the correct answers. So first read the questions and choices and get familiar with them. Give the students a little time to read the choices and then play the tape. After they have finish
11、ed it, check the answers. T: Listen to the tape for the second time and then finish Activity 3 on Page 49 in pairs. Read this extract from the conversation and underline the stressed words.While the students are listening to the tape, the teacher can write down some difficult words and phrases on th
12、e blackboard: instead of = in place of, I bet = I am certain The students practise in pairs.T: Ok. Lets underline the stressed words together. From this extract from the conversation, you are sure to find in spoken English many sentences are not complete ones, such as “Not true”, the complete senten
13、ces of which are “That / It is not true”. This is called ellipses in grammar. We will talk about it later. Then play the tape again and let the students pay attention to the stressed words. Then deal with Listening on Page 111. Step Function T: Now, boys and girls, please think about what sentence s
14、tructures have been used in the conversation.S: I find that many comparisons are used.T: Right. Please turn to Page 51, look at Activity 1. Read these opinions from Listening on Page 49 and answer the questions. Qs: 1. Who is speaking?2. Which words and expressions tell you that she is making compar
15、isons?3. Which words tell you that she is talking about things that happened regularly in the past?Ask the students to discuss for a while. Then check the answers. S: A mother.S: She uses these words and expressions to make comparison: so much than, as as, much more than, such Write these functional
16、 item on the Bb:so much than such as as much more than S: She is talking about the past things by using “used to”, “didnt listen to”, “didnt use to” and “didnt play”. T: Look at the functional items on the Bb, we use them to compare the present and the past. Read the opinions again and study how the
17、y are used by the mother to compare music in the past and that in the present. Then we will do some practice with them. Then deal with Activity 3. T: Well, now lets complete these sentences in Activity 3, making similar comparisons between the present and the past. Use the words in brackets. After t
18、he students have finished it, check the answers. S1: Modern pop stars earn much more money than they used to. (earn money)S2: Old rock bands worked harder than the modern ones do. (work hard)S2: These days, bands sing and play instruments much louder than before. (sing and play instruments)S4: These
19、 days, music fans spend much more money on their favorite stars than the previous fans did. (spend money)S5: In the old days, people had fewer opportunities to listen to their favorite singers than today.(opportunities to listen)Step VI Homework1. Choose the correct meanings of the everyday English on Page 51 and do some practice. 2. Check the opinions that your parents have about the music you listen to. (Page 51, Activity 2)3. Preview the first part of the reading passage on Page 44.