The Third Period Reading

Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language 目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

dance to, aspect, breakthrough, side by side, while, experiment with, approach, the first time, the moment, be bored with, in decline, take advantage of, provide ... for ..., add, influence, apart from

b. 重点句子

The DJs at block parties in the 1970s played a lot of soul music and they noticed that people

　preferred the percussion breaks in the songs because they were the best parts to dance to.

DJ Herc, one of the most popular Jamaican DJs at the time, noticed that New York audiences

didn't really like reggae music, so he started playing other kinds of music, including rock and

disco music.

MC Dark remembered the first time he heard a rap singer.

"The moment I heard it," he said, "I knew it was a completely new kind of music."

The first time that rap artists recorded their music, musicians recorded the tracking tracks (the

　music without the singing) in the studio and rappers added their vocals later.

2. Ability goals 能力目标

Enable the students to learn about the origin, development and success of hip hop.

3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to summarize the main idea of each part to have a general idea of the whole passage.

Teaching important points 教学重点

Enable the students to have a general idea of what hip hop is.