Unit 5 Music Reading---Teaching Plan
Period 1: A sample lesson plan for Reading I (The Band That Wasn’t)
Aims: (1) Enable students to appreciate and classify different kinds of music by doing the
exercise in Warming up
(2) Developing their abilities to express their feeling on music and enlarge their
knowledge on music.
(3) Encourage students to organize their bands with the learned language points. (4) Help students to improve the ability of comprehending the passage. Teaching Difficult Points
1. How to help the students improve their reading ability and understand the passage better.
2. How to help the students express their ideas on their own bands.
Teaching Methods
1. Fast reading to get the general idea of the text. 2. Careful reading to understand the passage better.
3. Explanation to help the students master some language points.
4. Discussion to help the students understand better what they’ve learned and to use the knowledge they’ve learned in this period.
Teaching AidsProcedures:
Step 1 warming up 1、
List the music heard in our daily life such as the school bell, rings of mobile phones, which arouses students’ interest in the topic talked in this unit.
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Guide students to talk about the function of music in our life, which attracts students’ attention to the emotional object of this topic.
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Task one brainstorming. The description of each type of music will be given in front class. Then students try to guess which kind of music it belongs to. After that, some pieces of music will be played, which requires them to link them to the according type. This is an exercise that helps students to enlarge the knowledge about music.
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4、 Task two discussion. Ask students to work in pairs to talk about their favorite music and the reasons for that.
Step 2 Pre—reading
(1) Task two discussion
Show students some pictures of famous bands in the world and encourage them to talk about their favorite bands and the reason for that in pair work. Then some of them will be picked out to report their work. Some useful expressions will be provided before the discussion.
For reference: I am from Group 1. Our group likes “The Beatles” best. We like their style of performances. Listening to their performances, we will feel relaxed, amused, and their performances make us think a lot about life. (2) Introduce something about “The Monkees”
“The Monkees” is a band that was first popular in the 1960s in America. Unlike most bands of the time, the Monkees were not formed by its members but rather by TV producers. They were a fictional band in the TV show of the same name. The band was composed of Mike Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork. All the members had some musical experience. Let’s come to the reading—The Band That Wasn’t and find more about them.
Step 3 Skimming
Task three skinning and skimming. Let the students listen to the tape and do the
following exercises:
1、The main idea of this passage
2、The multiple-choice exercise about some detailed information in this text
Step 4 Second reading
In this part, students will read the text again and try to understand the sentences and
the main idea of each paragraph. You may find it either at the beginning, the middle, or the end of the paragraph.
1st paragraph: How do people get to form a band?/Dreaming of being famous musician
or singer.
2nd paragraph: Most musicians meet and form a band./How musicians form bands. 3rd paragraph: One band started as a TV show./How the band got their start.
4th paragraph: “The Monkees” became even more popular than “The Beatles”./How
“The Monkees” became popular and how they developed to a real band.
Do the summary of this text
Retell the story by filling the blanks in the following passage in five minutes.
If we are ______ ______ ourselves, most of us have ______ ______ being famous
sometimes in our lives. Most musicians often meet and ______ a band. Sometimes they play in the street to ______ so that they can earn some ______ money and this also gives them a ______ to realize their dreams. There was once a band started ______ ______ ______ ______. The musicians of whom the band was formed ______ ______ ______ each other as well as played music whose music and jokes were loosely ______ ______ “The Beatles”. Their exciting performances were copied by other groups. “The Monkees” played their own ______ and wrote their own music. Though it ______ ______ in 1970, it ______ in the mid-1980s and it is still popular today.
Step 5 Post-reading
Task four group work
Read the text again to complete the tables, which list how people formed a band and how the Monkees was formed by the TV organizers and became a real band. Each group will be arranged to finish one part of the table.
How was “The Monkees” formed and became a real band?
The Monkees in 1968 (left to right): Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith & Davy Jones Beginning of the band: It began as a TV show.
Style of the performance: They played jokes on each other as well as played music. First music and jokes: Most of them were based loosely on the band called “The Beatles”. Development of the band: They became more serious about their work and started to play their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band. They produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music.
Changes of the band: The band broke up in about 1970, but reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, which was a celebration of their time as a real band.
How do people get to form a band?
Members: High school students
Reasons: They like to write and play music. Places: They practice their music in someone’s home. Forms: They may play to passers-by in the street or subway.
Results: They can earn some extra money. They may also have a chance to dream of becoming famous. Task five group discussion
Four students will form a group to form their own band, including the name, members, the type of music, the theme, and the
Step 5 Homework: Find out some language points in Reading I and write a composition about your own band with the words and phrases learned in this lesson in only five sentences.
Step 6: Feedback
人教版高中英语必修2·Unit5·Music-Reading 教案
