高中英語(yǔ)必修二music教案

1、unit5Teaching AimsAfter class,students will be able to: 1.Talk about different styles of music.2.Know the development of the Monkees.3.Becomes interested in music.Teaching stepsStep 1 BrainstormingTeacher asks students t

2、he following questions:1.Do you like music?Why?2.What kind of music do you like best?suggested answers:1.enrich life,relax,pleasant,happy,crazy2.Make things more lively and interesting.3.Make things better for people to

3、understand and enjoy.4.Express people's feeling.5.Make people feel good.6.Help people forget their pain.Step2 Warming upTeacher show students some pictures and what kind of music it will be played.(suggested answers:

4、classical music,Wedding Ceremony Music, Pop music)Step3.Reading and answeringStudents skim the text and answer the following two questions.1.How many bands are mentioned in the passage?2.Which band does “The Band That Wa

5、sn't“refer to?Suggested answers:1.Two.The Beatles and the Monkees.2.The Monkees.Step4.Main ideasStudents find the main ideas of the first two paragraphs.Suggested answers:Paragraph 1. Many people want to be famous as

6、 singers or musiciansParagraph 2. How most bands start.3.When perfomers make records and sell millions of copies,they are successful. 4.Each week the group that was called“the Beatles“5.Most of us have dreamed of being a

7、 famous musian. 6.It is hard for the TV organizers to look for good rock musians.7.At first,the Monkees did not play their own songs.8.The Monkees became even more popular thanthe Beatles.9.In 1996,they produced a new re

8、cord to celebrate their former time as a band.Step10.HomeworkMake a summary of the passage.Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands

9、of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke and pretend you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great importan

10、ce to becoming rich and famous. But just how do people form a band?Many musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high-school students, for whom prac

11、tising their music in someone's house is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may ptey to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves or to pay for their instruments. La

12、ter they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid in cash. Of course they hope to make records in a studio and sell millions of copies to become millionaires!However, there was one band that starte

13、d in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most of which was based loosely on the Beatles. The TV organizers had planned

14、to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three memb

15、ers of the band.As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. Anyhow their performances were humorous enough t

16、o be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a

17、year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music.

18、In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrat