1、Period 3 Listening, Speaking, and Vocabulary, Function,Everyday English 课前预习：使用说明与学法指导：通过完成课前预习练习题复习与有关的词汇。Words and expressionsbeautiful adj.漂亮的，美丽的 favorite adj.最喜爱的optimistic adj. 乐观的 relaxed adj.感到放松的 ridiculous adj.荒谬的，可笑的 stupid adj.愚蠢的surprise adj.使惊讶 wonderful adj.精彩的collection n. 收藏，收藏品 vac
2、ant adj.空的spotted adj.有污迹的 relay v.转播，接转voluntary adj.自愿的 handle n.柄，把手all of a sudden 突然 side road 小路，支路dance to the music 伴着音乐跳舞 barrel organ 手摇风琴我的疑问：课内探究&检测：Listening1. Pre-listeningRead and choose the correct words.(1) novel (2) composer (3) book (4) opera (5) Theatre (6) all-black (7) banned f
3、rom performing (8) depressing (9) hit (10) melodies2. While-listening: Check the answers to activity 1 and answer some questions about the story1）What do you think Porgy and Bess is about?2）Do you think Porgy and Bess is opera, jazz or classical music?3）What is a “classic of modern American music”?4
4、）Why do you think it took a long time to put on the show?5）Was the show an immediate success?.6）What was the effect of the reviews?7) Do you think you would enjoy Porgy and Bess? Can you think of a similar Chinese opera?Listen to the tape, and then fill in the blanks.Porgy and Bess started life as a
5、 1925 _ by Dubose Heyward called Porgy, about the life of African Americans in Charleston. George Gershwin (1898 1937), a _ of popular and classical music, read the _, and thought it would make a good _. With his brother, Ira Gershwin (1896 1983) and Heyward, they put together a wonderful new work,
6、called Porgy and Bess, which opened at the Alvin _ on New Yorks Broadway on 10th October, 1935. It soon became a _ of modern American music, and the songs, especially Summertime and I Got Plenty of Nothing are very well-known and have _ _, particularly for the jazz repertoire. At first it wasnt easy
7、 to put on the production, because it needed an _ cast at a time when Afro-American actors were _ from performing, and Gershwin didnt want it done in “blackface”, that is, with white actors made up like blacks. But in the end he _ _ _ white actors performing the roles of black people. After much tim
8、e and many difficulties the show was finally put on. At first it received _ reviews, and George Gershwin _ in 1937, without knowing that he had co-written an American classic, and one of the western worlds _ _. But word spread around New York, the audiences grew _ _ _, and soon the opera was an extr
9、aordinary _. Porgy and Bess deals with the rhymes and rhythms of _ _ in America. It combines elements that have never before appeared as _ and it shows the drama, the humour, the superstition, the religious fervour, the dancing, the misery and _ _ _ of black Americans in the early 20th century. 课后反思: 课后训练：下一课时的课前预习练习题。课后学习指导：牢记本节课所学的词汇、句型的用法。
