全新21世纪大学英语1-Unit6

鼓舞，激励
impression /Im preS n/ n. 理解
inspire /In spaI / vt.
figure out
Video script:
Hi Class, As you can hear, I have background music playing
here. Listen carefully. Does it sound familiar to you? (Pause.) What is it called? (Pause.) Who wrote it? (Pause.) If you’re thinking Beethoven, you’re right!
masterpiece: greatest piece of work 杰作
e.g. Adam Smith’s masterpiece The Wealth of Nations was written in the 18th century. 亚当·斯密的杰作《国富论》创作于18世纪。
radiates: to clearly show a quality or feeling in your appearance or behaviour 散发
e.g. My first impression of England was of a grey and rainy place. 我对英格兰的第一印象是：这是一个灰蒙蒙且 多雨的地方。
inspired: to encourage profoundly 鼓舞
e.g. His confident leadership inspired his followers. 他充满信心的领导才能鼓舞了他的追随者。
e.g. The sun radiates both warmth and light. 太阳散发出光和热。
passion: an intense liking, attraction or affinity for sb. or sth. 激情
e.g. one’s passion for football 对足球的激情 All the passion in their marriage has died. 他们婚姻中的所有激情都荡然无存。
Objectives Part I Video Starter Part II Text A Paral Theme-Related Activities
Objectives
From studying this unit, students are expected to
background music: sounds that you can hear in the distance, apart from the main sounds that you are hearing or listening to 背景音乐
e.g. It has been reported that people work more efficiently in the workplace with background music playing. 据报道，人们在有背景音乐的工作场所工作效 率更高。
The story radiates passion, inspiration and love.
Now that the students have fully understood the Video Starter, you can ask some of them to dub (配音 ) the video, if time permits. Correct their errors in pronunciation and intonation.
Beethoven.
2) What is the name of the composition?
“Moonlight Sonata”.
3) What do you expect Text A (below) in this unit will be about?
According to the video, it will be about how the “Moonlight Sonata” came to be.
The story behind it radiates passion, inspiration and love. Beethoven’s love of beauty, passion for his work, and the resulting inspiration of his composition will leave a deep impression on you. I can’t help but believe you’ll be inspired by the story.
To begin, we’ll watch a video clip and try to grasp its message. Getting to know the words and expressions in the box below first maybe helpful.
background music Beethoven / beIt UV n/
Aside from appreciating the glorious music itself and the story of its creation, here the most important thing is for you to figure out the story’s main message. What do you learn from the story? What does its message mean to you?
figure out: to understand 理解
e.g. I find him really odd — I can’t figure him out at all. 我觉得他确实有点怪—我完全无法理解他。
Ask the students the following questions after watching and listening, if there’s enough time. 1) Who wrote the music you heard just now?
go online: 上网
e.g. I’ll just go online and look up her address. 我正要上网查她的地址。
definitely: certainly 肯定地
e.g. According to the data, we can definitely say that pollution is increasing. 根据数据我们能肯定地说污染在不断扩大。
4) What did Berlioz think of the “Moonlight Sonata”? He thought it “is one of those poems that human language does not know how to qualify.”
5) What does the story radiate?
2) master certain useful sentence structures (e.g. “as if” and adjective as adverbial of accompaniment) as well as the words and expressions that the exercises following Text A focus on;
Berlioz / berlI Uz/
柏辽兹（1803—1869，法国作
曲家、指挥家和音乐评论家）
radiate / reIdIeIt/ vt.
散发
passion / pQS n/ n.
激情
inspiration
灵感
/ Insp reIS n/ n.
（音乐）创作
composition
印象
/ k mp zIS n/ n.
Moonlight Sonata anecdote / QnIkd ut/ n. go online masterpiece / mA st pI s/ n.
背景音乐 贝多芬（1770—1827，德 国作曲家） 《月光奏鸣曲》 轶事，故事 上网 杰作
definitely / defInItlI/ ad. 肯定地
1) learn about Beethoven’s passion and love for music, know how his masterpiece “Moonlight Sonata” was created (Text A) and become familiar with the story about Julio Iglesias and his father (Text B);
Moonlight Sonata: 《月光奏鸣曲》
anecdote: a short story based on one’s personal experience 轶事，故事
e.g. He has told many amusing anecdotes about his life in Japan. 他讲了许多关于他在日本生活的轶事。
Yes, Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” has led us into Unit Six, which deals with an anecdote particularly popular at the end of 19th century. It is a story about how the famous sonata came to be. If you go online to look up information about the “Moonlight Sonata,” you won’t be disappointed. It is definitely a musical masterpiece. Berlioz once wrote that it “is one of those poems that human language does not know how to qualify.”
inspiration: sb. or sth. that triggers a deep-felt experience in you and/or motivates you to do sth. of significance 灵感
e.g. The golden autumn sunlight provided the inspiration for the painting. 金秋的阳光为绘画提供了灵感。
composition: a piece of music, a poem, or a piece of writing （音乐）创作
e.g. At music school I studied piano and composition. 我在音乐学校学习钢琴和作曲。
impression: the opinion or feeling you have about sb. or sth. because of the way they seem 印象
3) understand how to make compound adjectives both in the form of adj-n-ed and in the form of n-v-ing;
4) and talk about how music affects our life.
Video Starter