percussion, record

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1 backing track 2 percussion 3 Disco music 4 rap 5 Reggae 6 beat 7 Electronic music 8 Rock music 9 record

Nowadays pop music songs become more and more popular with the young people. Unfortunately few people know the origin of the music. The following passage may give you a hand in the question.

Cultural Box:

*Pop music is the name for various popular, commercial music.

*It originated in the U.S.A. and spread the whole world during the 1950s and 1960s.

*It is widely liked by the young people. The best-known early form of pop music was "rock and roll"; another was "blues". A more recent development is "folk rock".

*Pop music has taken the place of native music in many parts of the world. It has caused the number of people for "jazz" music to become much smaller than in the 1950s and earlier, and it now began to rule the music stage productions.

*It is a big industry. Much pop music is without artistic value, but the works of some pop singers for example: the Beatle, Bob Dylan, the groups like Pink Floyd and Crosby, Stills and Nash, are on a higher musical level.

And there is still great interest in it today. Pop music concerts and festivals are held all over the world.

Work in groups of four. Read the following comments about hip hop music and answer the questions. Students are required to do the job in-group to do the activity. Students are asked to appoint a secretary to note the answers. At last I'll call back the answers from the secretaries in a whole-class situation.

Step 4: After you read

Copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book. If possible, you're required to make up sentences with them.

Useful expressions from All You Know About Hip Hop

consist of, prefer to, be bored with, in decline, make an impression on sb., stare at, take advantage of, the moment, rather than, in order, come out, be devoted to, dance to, be short for, side by side,

Sentences made with useful expressions from All You Know About Hip Hop

1. How many chapters does the book consist of?

2. Do you prefer to dance to fast music?

3. He has been bored with the past.

4. His interest in computer games is now in decline.

5. I made a bad impression on the boss by leaving too early.

6. It's not polite to stare at the foreign visitors.

7. I took advantage of the good weather to paint the wall.

8. The moment I picked up the telephone, I realized that someone had dialed the wrong number.

9. It was what he meant rather than what he said that annoyed me.

10. It'll be quite in order for you to speak now.