Unit 5 music

How many kinds of music do you know? What are they?

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Classical music

Rock ’n’ Roll

Orchestra

Rap Folk music

Jazz Country music

Choral

Rock ‘n’ Roll

Country musicCountry music

Guess: what kind of music is it?

rap

country music

choral

classical music

folk music

jazz

orchestra

The Band That Wasn’t

skimming:

How many bands are there in the text?And what are they?

There are two. They are “The Beatles” and “The Monkees”.

The Monkees

The Beatles

Para. 1.

Para.2

Para.3

Para.4

2.Dreaming of being a famous musician or singer

4.How musicians form bands

1.How the Monkees got their start

3.How the Monkees became serious about the music business

match the main idea of each paragraph

How can we become a famous singer?

1. You can go to university to study music.

2. You can take part in competitions.

3. You can write and sing your own songs, and let others know them through the internet.

4. You can form a band.

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In America, who often form bands?

Where do they practise their music?

How do they earn money?

This gives them____________________________

High school students

They practise in someone’s home.

They play to passers-by in the street or subway.

Careful reading: para.2

a chance to dream of becoming famous.

The Monkees

How did “The Monkees” begin?

What were their performances based on?

Without enough musicians, what did the TV organizers do?

It began as a TV show.

Their music and jokes were based on the band called “The Beatles”.

They asked other musicians to sing the songs for the programme while the band pretended to sing them.

Para 3: Answer questions

Para 4: Choose the right answer

Which one is true?

A.After a year or so,”The Monkees” performed as a real band.

B. The monkees became more popular than “the Beatles” in UK.C. The band broke up in about 1960, and reunited in the 1980s.

D. “The Monkees” produced a new record in 1996 to celebrate their reunion.

A

the USA 1970

their time as a real band

1. Most musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play music.

True or False?

2.The TV organizers had looked for five musicians who were lively and who could make good music.

3. Each week the group that was called “The Beatles” would play a song or two written by other musicians.

T

F

F

4.Though the band pretended to sing at first, they were popular with the fans.

T

four

“The Monkees”

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 in a ________ 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 _________in the mid-1980s and it is still popular today.

honest with

dreamed of form

passers-by

extrachance

different

Fill in the blanks:

played jokes on

based on

instruments

broke up reunited

Discussion:

If you are asked to form a band, what will you do?

What is the name of your band?

How many members are there in your band?

Where will you practise singing?

How will you earn money to support your band?

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