Teaching plan of Unit 5 Music

Teaching aims:
1. Topic
   Music; different types of music
2. Useful words and expressions:
 Roll  rock’n’roll  folk  jazz  musician  clap  form (v.)  passer-by  earn  extra  loosely   advertisement   actor  attractive   fan   instrument  hit (n.)  sort  frog  afterwards  perform  stick (v.)  ability  saying  reputation  unknown
 dream of   be honest with  play jokes on   or so  break up  by chance 
 sort out  stick to  above all 
3. Functional items:
 a)Making suggestions
    I think we should…
    Should we go..?
    What if we..?
    What do you think…?
    How about …?
    Let’s ….
    We could….
    You could…
    If we…
 b)Talking about preference
 I prefer…
  Why do you prefer…?
  I like…best because..
 I am fond of…
 My favorite musician is…
 I enjoy listening to…
 I don’t like… very much.
 I hate…

4. Structures
 The attributive (IV)  (prep. + which/ whom)
 The musicians of whom the band was formed played jokes on each other as well as played music.
 However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, “The Monkees” started to play their own records and started touring and write their own songs like a real band.

Teaching procedures

Period 1.  Reading

Step 1. Warming up
 1. Ss listen to the different kinds of music on the tape and try to guess which music matches which pictures on page 33.
 2. Ss discuss and answer:
 1). What kind of music do you like better, Chinese or Western, classical or modern? Why?
 2). How does music make you feel?
 3). Why do you like to listen to music?
Step 2. Pre-reading
   Ss discuss the following questions with their partners and then ask them to report in class.
   1). Have you heard about any of the famous bands in the world? List some if you have.
   2). Which one do you like best? Why?
   3). Do you know anything about “ The Monkees”?
Step 3. Reading
 1. scanning: Ss read the passage quickly and try to answer the following questions:
 1). What are the benefits if students form a band to play in the street?
 2). When did “The Monkees” break up and when did it reunite?
 3). Why was “ The Monkees” successful in their work?
 2. Ss read the passage again and finish Ex 1 and 2 in Comprehending.
 3. Ss try to get the main idea of each paragraph.
Suggested answers:
Para. 1 dreaming of being a famous musician or singer
Para. 2 how musicians form bands
Para. 3 how The Monkees got their start
Para. 4 how The Monkees became serious about the music business
Step 4. Langrage points
 1. dream of
 2. …with everyone clapping and enjoying…
 3. pretend
 4. play jokes
 5. base on
 6. …of whom the band was formed…
 7. break up
Step 5. Retelling
 1. Show the key words and relevant pictures on the screen.
 2. Ask the Ss to retell the passage, according to the following key words.
 be honest with, dream of, form a band, earn extra money, give a chance;
 A band started in a different way, play jokes on, music and jokes, be based on, The Monkees, play instruments, write their own music, break up, reinite;
Step 6. Assignment
 1. Please collect some information about your favourite music and some famous musicians.
 2. Read the text fluently and pick out the sentences you appreciate.

Period 2. Grammar

Step 1. Revision
   Check the homework.
Step 2. Learning about language
 1. Discovering useful words and expressions.
  1). Ss do exercise 1 by themselves, and refer to the dictionaries if necessary. Then check the answers with the whole class.
  2). Ex.2. In this part, get the Ss to do this exercise individually. After that, ask them to discuss their answers in pairs and then with the whole class.
  3). Ex. 3. In this part, get the Ss to work in pairs and talk about their dreams and imagine what they expect to happen. Then ask them to report their work.
 2. Discovering useful structures
  1). Ex.1 First ask the Ss pay attention to the structure in the attributive clause. When the preposition is put before the relative clause, usually only two relative pronouns are used—which and whom. That is never used. Then Ss look at the screen and learn more about this kind of structure.
   a. In the strange city, he could not find anyone to whom turned for help.
   b. I’ll never forget the day on which we met for the first time.
   c. This is the professor from whom we can learn a lot.
   d. This is the gun with which the hunter shot the wolf.
  2). Ex. 2. Ss do it by themselves and then discuss the answers in pairs. At last, check the answers with the whole class.
Step 3. Using words and phrases
  1. Ss do this exercise by themselves.
  2. Check the answers in pairs.
  3. Check the answers in class.
Step 4. Using structures
 1. Ss do exercise 1 on page 71.
 2. Correcting: for this exercise, ask the Ss to do it by themselves and then check the answers with the whole class.
 3. Ex. 3. translating into English
 1). Ss write the sentences down.
 2). Ss report their work.
Step 5. Assignment
 Review the attributive clause.

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