Unit5 Music

Reading

学习目标：

1. 学习使用阅读技能（skimming, scanning, intensive reading, concluding）

2. 掌握文章大意，梳理文章脉络

【课堂探究】

Step1. Skimming. (快速浏览全文，完成题目)

Task 1. What’s the text mainly about?

How do people form a______?  And how did the _______   form and become a real band?

Task2. Skim the passage and match the main idea with the correct paragraph (快速浏览文章，找出每段的主旨大意，连线)

Para.1            How the Monkees formed the band.

Para.2            Dreaming of being famous.

Para3.            How the Monkees became popular and developed as a real band

Para4.            The common way that bands form.

Step2. Scanning the Para1&2.  (快速浏览文章第一、二段，查找重要信息，完成题目)

Task 1 Complete the information

1. What many people dreamed of

   --becoming a famous singer or _____________     --playing at a(n) _____________

   --singing like a _____________           --becoming rich and _________________

1. How and why people get to form a band

Task 2.  Tell whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

1. A famous singer or musician usually belongs to a band.

2. If you sing karaoke, it will be easier for you to be rich and famous.

3. Many musicians form a band because of their common interest in music.

4. Playing music to passers-by in the street is the first step to fame.

5. When performers make records and sell millions of copies, they are successful.

Step 3. Scanning the Para3~4.  (快速浏览文章第三、四段，查找重要信息，完成题目)

Task1: Read paragraphs 3 and 4 and fill in the blanks with proper words.

  The Monkees (not a real band)

1. TV organizers put an ____________ in a newspaper to find four musicians.

2. Three _______ and one musician _______ the band.

3. They played _____ on each other as well as played music.

4. They pretended to sing during the __________.

5. They played and sang songs written by ______________.

    

   The Monkees (a real band)

1. They played and sang their own songs.

2. They produced records and started _______ and playing their own music.

3. They _________ about 1970.

4. They ________ in the mid-1980s.

5. In 1996, they produced a new record, with which they __________ their former time.

Step 4. Scanning the whole passage.  (快速浏览文章，查找重要信息，完成题目)

Complete the passage

If we are honest with 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 in a different way.

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 reunited in the mid-1980s and it is still popular today.

Step5. Discussion

Now, it’s time for you to form your own band … (work in your group)

1. The band’s name?

2. What kind of music you will choose?

3. Who is the lead singer?

4. Who will play which instrument? (guitar, drum, piano, violin, saxophone…)

5. Where to play?

Homework

Write a passage to introduce your favorite band or your band