1、Do you like music?o Music means a lot to human beings.o Music is fun and for your spirit.o Without music,life is a journey through a desert.Music produces a kind of pleasure which humannature cannot do without.Confucius Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.Leigh HuntMusic is moonlight in the
2、gloomy night of life.Jean Paul RichterMusic washes away from the soul the dust ofeveryday life.Berthold AuerbachDo you like music?How doesmusic make you feel?Task 1 Brain-stormingListen to different kinds of music and number the pictureson page 33.Task 2PracticeCan you name any music style?Classical
3、 musicRockn RollOrchestraRapFolk musicJazzCountry musicChoralR&BPoprockRapClassical musicFolk MusicHip-hopBluesPunk Country musicJazzWhat kind of music do you like better,Chinese or Western,classical or modern?Why?Task 3Discussion1.Do you know any famous bands?List.2.Which one do you like best?Why?A
4、 band is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music.BeyondYu QuanBackstreet boysThe BeatlesThe Monkees the most popular band in the USA from 1966 to 1968!A big hit!Do you know anything about theMonkees?Fast Reading Why the names of Song Zuying and Liu Huan are mentioned
5、 in P1?A.Because they are very famous.B.Because they can sing very well.C.Because the text only want us to know them.D.Because the text is giving us some examples of the famous singers that we might want to be like.Why were the Monkees said tostart in a different way?A.They played jokes on each othe
6、r.B.Only had three members at first.C.They were formed by TV producers.D.The members were actors.1.Join the correct parts of the sentences together.1 They produced a new record in 19962 Most musicians get together and 3 They put an advertisement in the newspaper looking for four rock musicians,4 The
7、 first TV shows5 However,the band broke up about 1970,A but only one person was accepted.B but reunited in the mid-1980s.C form a band because they like to write and play music.D to celebrate their time as a band.Careful-readingE was a big hit.2.Match main ideas with paragraphsPara 1:Para 2:Para 3:P
8、ara 4:The Monkees started in a different way.Many people want to be famous as singers or musicians.How the Monkees became popular and how they developed as a real band.This is how most bands start.3.True or false questions(1).The band began as a TV show.(2).The TV organizers had looked for five musi
9、cians who were lovely and who could make good music.(3).Each week the group that was called“The Monkees”would play a song or two written by themselves.(4).The band broke up in 1970,but reunited in the mid-1980s.(5).In 1999,they produced a new record to celebrate their time as band.TFFTT1.Review the reading text.2.Remember new words and expressions.3.Finish Discovering useful words and expressions.Homework
