Country music

er going to perform on Saturday?
　　1) going to a concert Saturday evening.
　　2) at the New Theatre.
Step III Reading
　　2. Let the Ss judge whether the following statements are true or false according to what they read carefully in the dialogue. Do it orally.
　　1) Jackie is going to see a film by John Denver on Saturday. F
　　2) John Denver is singing at the New York theatre. F
　　3) The music that Denver sings is American country music. T
　　4) Yang Pei isn't going to hear Denver because she doesn't have a ticket. F
　　5) Yang Pei knows a lot about Denver. F
　　6) Most of Denver's songs are written by himself. T
　　7) A program of his music was broadcast on TV last month. F
　　8) Jackie suggests that Yang Pei buy a ticket. T
Step IV Grammar study
　　1. Allow the Ss a few minutes to read the dialogue in Part 3 in pairs and pick out the sentences in the Past Perfect Tense.
　　2. Give the Ss a brief revision about this tense by providing some examples and supply them with some sentences to differ the Simple Past Tense from the Past Perfect Tense.
Step V Summary and further practice
　　1.Summary
　　Tell the Ss in this period we have learnt something about John Denver, made some dialogues with the expressions in it and reviewed the Past Perfect Tense.
　　2.Further practice
　　1) Get the Ss to do Ex.3 on Page 107 in the Wb in pails. Then ask several pairs to read out their answers to the whole class.
　　2)If time permits, ask the Se to make a short passage orally about John Denver and let some of them speak out. The Ss may also do it after class.
Step Ⅵ Homework
　　Finish off Ex. 1 and 2 on Page 107 in the Wb and Part 2 and 3 on Page 43 to review the Past Perfect Tense.

 

 

Lesson 42教学设计方案

Teaching Aims
　　1. To make clear some difficult sentences in this passage.

　　2. To help the Ss get some knowledge about American country music, its development, its subjects and the causes why it has returned.

Step I Revision

　　Check the Wb. exercises

Step II Warming-up

　　1.The T plays pieces of music which have been prepared, for example: “Country Road”. Then collect the information in a list. “country, sky, mountains, wind, tree, road...”

　　2.The T asks them the following questions?

　　1)      Do you like this song? Can you sing it? Do you want to learn more about American country music?

Step III Listening

　　T plays the tape to the Ss twice, the ask them the following questions:

　　1)Why do we say that American country music has become big business?

　　2) Why do you think that the first country singers sang songs while playing the guitar?

Keys:1)Because it brings in between 200 and 400 million dollars a year.

　　2) Because it was easy for these singers to carry a guitar on their travels.

Step IV Reading

　　1. First ask the Ss to divide the whole passage into two parts and sum up the main idea of each part.

Answers:

　　Part1(1,2,3) American music in different times.

　　Part2(4,5,6) American country music.

　　2. Allow them a few minutes to find out the subjects of American country music in different times. And collect their answer's on the Bb.

Times

                        Subjects

1950s

1) Love—getting or losing a boyfriend or girlfriend.

2) Money was also thought to be important.

1960s

1) Young people were angry with society. Songs were full of anger.         

2) Political leaders .were not well thought of and those songs often made fun of them.

1990s

1) Feeling alone in the modem world

2)the value of having good friends and so on.

　　3. Ask the Ss to concentrate on Part Two. Allow them some minutes to read Paragraph 4,5 and 6, and fill in the following form.

American

Country

Music

Subjects

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Scope

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