Module 3 music

Aims and requirements

●To enable the students to listen and talk about likes and dislikes (especially about music and musicians),encouraging them to try the vocabulary and everyday English in this unit

●To develop the students' reading ability

●To help the students learn and use two grammars (adverbial clause of time and the past perfect tense) in different situations

●To help the students to write a biography of a person, using the time expressions in Grammar 1

Teaching procedures

Period 1 Introduction ，Warming up

Teaching aims:

Enabling the students to

1. know some words about music

2. know something about three great composers

step1. Warming up by listening pieces of music and asking questions

Play several pieces of music (music from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven will be best) to let the students listen and appreciate, then ask them:

1) Do you like music?

2) What about these pieces?

3) What is your favorite kind of music?

4) Who is your favorite musician? And who is your favorite composer?

step2. Warming up by showing some pictures and discussing

1) Do you know who they are?

2) What kind of things are these pictures connected with, science, culture, politics, painting, drawing or music?

step3. Warming up by listening to a piece of music

Good morning, class. Today we are going to read a passage about three great musicians who are all composers. A composer is a musician who writes pieces of beautiful music