Teaching

Plan

 

Textbook: Junior English for China Book 2

 

Content:  Lesson 82,Unit 21

 

Course: Learning and discussing

 

Students:  Class4,Grade 2

 

Time:    Forty-five Minutes

 

Date:  March, 2004

 

Teacher: Fang Xianghong

 

 

 

Lesson 82

TASK  The Ss are to survey the favourite music and musician

 

 

 

 

I．Teaching aims and demands

1. The Ss can use the following words:

Moonlight, sonata, poor, afford, knock, dim, blind, shine, brightly, through, silently

2. The Ss can use the following expressions:

Pardon me. to one’s surprise, lose oneself in

II．Difficult points

Using reflexive pronouns    Using the compound sentence.

III．Teaching aids: CAL

A recorder, some pieces of paper, some pictures

IV．Teaching steps

Step One Warming up

1. watch flashes of some music before the bell rings.

2. Greetings

3. Chatting

The teacher is chatting with the Ss to revise the words “music, rock, piano, violin, pop” etc. and the expressions “Did you learn by yourself? Could you ….”

T: Did you hear the music just now?   S: Yes, I did.

T: Do you enjoy listening to music?   S: Yes, we do.

T: What music do you like better, piano or violin?

S: Piano. (or violin)   T: Can you play the piano?

S1: No, I can’t.   S2: Yes, I can.

T: Could you play it three years ago?  S: Yes. (No)

T: When did you begin to learn it? S: I began to learn …

T: Did you learn it by yourself?  S: No.

T: Who taught you?    S: …. did.

Step Two Language input

Presentation

I was not so lucky, happy as you. When I was at your age, I wanted to learn playing the piano, but the piano was so dear and my family was poor(not rich)that my parents couldn’t afford to buy one for me. Can your parents afford to buy you a piano

Look at this CD.I couldn’t afford to buy one ten years ago, I think.

T: Can you tell me the name of music that we heard just now?

S: Yes (No)  It’s …           T: Who composed it?

S: Beethoven did.   T: Who is Beethoven?

S: He is a musician and composer.

T: Which country was Beethoven from?  S: He was from Germany.

T: When was he born and when did he die?

S: He was born in 1770 and died in 1827.

Have the Ss watch the screen to know more about Beethoven.

T: Can you name some of his music?

S: “No.5 Symphony”  S: “No.3 Symphony”….

T: What piece of Beethoven’s music do you like best?

S1: I like ….   S2: I like…

T: They like …..,But I like The Moonlight Sonata best I think it is very beautiful. Would you like to listen to it? Please listen it silently. You’d better close your eyes and feel the music.

Step Three Pre-reading

Oh, you listened to it silently and to my surprise, all of you lost yourselves in the music.

T: You enjoyed the Moonlight Sonata very much, didn’t you?

S: Yes, we did.

T: Why did Beethoven compose the music? Actually it was written for

his love of Countess Giulietta who refused to marry him.

Here is something about the piece of music

Step Four  Reading

1. T: Tell me something about the girl in the story after you read it.

2 Have the Ss read the story silently and retell.

3 Read the story again and try to know more information.

4 Answer the following questions

1)              Why did Beethoven stop outside a little house when he was walking in a street one evening/

2)              Did the girl find it easy to play Beethoven’s Sonata in F?

3)              Did the girl live alone?  4)What did the girl wish to do?

1) What did the young man say when he heard the girl’s wish?

2) Did the girl really believe her dream would come true?

3) What did Beethoven do when he heard their talk?

4) What surprised Beethoven when he saw the girl?

5) How did the girl learn to play this music?

6) Did Beethoven teach the girl to play his sonata in F?

7) Did the girl and the young man like the music played by Beethoven?

8) How do you know that/

9) What did Beethoven call that new piece of music?

10)         Do you know why?

5.Play the tape and have the Ss listen and repeat.

6.Teach the new vocabulary: poor knock at pardon shine-shone bright-brightly and through

7.Ask the Ss to read the story.(several groups)

Step Five  Practice

1.         Ask the Ss to say something about Beethoven in the story.

2.         Get the Ss to retell the story with the help of some key words showing on the screen.

Step Six  Consolidation

1. Ask and answer

T: Do you know any other composers or musicians?

S: Yes. They’re…

 2. Show the following and ask the Ss to match these three columns.

3. Play some CDs and ask the following questions

1)“The Rain of Meteor” 

a. Who sang the song?  b. Do you like this song?

1) “The National Anthem”

2)  a. What’s the name of the song? b. Who composed it?

4)) “The Butterfly”       

a. Who played it?   b. What’s the main instrument in the music?

“The Fate Symphony”  

3) a. Is it a sonata?

         b. Who composed it?

 Step Seven  Make a survey

1)       Ask the Ss to fill in the blanks

FAVOURITE

What’s your favourite……?

Who’s your favourite……?

Pop music:_____________

Classical music:_________

song:_________________

singer:________________

composer:_____________

musician:______________

2) Group work  Ask the Ss to read their lists to each other in the group.

3) Class activity  Each group should choose one student to report their information to the whole class. They can use the following expressions:    Our favourite ….is….   We all like……

Step eight  Homework

1)              Retell the story.

2)              Do Ex.1of Wb in the workbook.

3)              Do Ex.2 of Wb in the exercise book.

4)              Try to collect the English names of Beethoven’s music.

 

《英语教案－Learning and discussingJunior English for China Book 2B》