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教 学 内 容 教师主导活动 Skills building 1: listening for facts about people

When we are listening for facts about people, there are certain things that we need to listen for. These include:

dates when they were born and died

He/She was born/died on 26 May 1962.

places where they were born or died.

These might be cities or countries.

He/She was born in London, England.

specific things that they did in their life. This will include dates and places such as when and where they got married or had a child, etc.

He married Jane in Paris in 1999.

information about why they did something and who or what influenced them.

He wrote this opera because he liked East Asia.

Step 1:

taking notes on famous composers

A Complete the first column - things to find out.

Listening text

Radio host: Welcome to the Great Musicians. Today, the

subjects of our programme are three composers who lived in three different

centuries---the eighteenth, the nineteenth

and the twentieth centuries

Two of them are European and one is American. Their names are Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Paul Simon. Before we listen to some of their music, let's just find out a little about them.

Mozart was born in Austria in the eighteenth century. He was truly talented. He composed classical music and had his first piece of music published in seventeen sixty-four at the age of eight, and he composed his first opera at the age of twelve in seventeen sixty-eight.

The next composer on my list is Tchaikovsky. As a classical music composer, he wrote many symphonies and he is famous for writing the music for the ballet Swan Lake. He was Russian and was born in eighteen forty.