Music in America 美国音乐

Teaching Difficult Points
1. To get students to understand and identify music styles. 2. To get students to consider reasons for various American music styles and the relationship between music and life.
1. To get students to form an optimistic attitude toward life through appreciating music.
2. To get students to form a tolerant attitude toward different cultures.
While-reading(20minutes)
1. Skimming 2. Intensive reading 3. consolidation
Skimming
Skim and get main idea of each part.(3’)
Part 1 (Para1):____________________ Part 2 (Paras2-5):__________________ Part 3 (Para 6):____________________
Student activity: individual work The purposes of design: a. To get Students to know the structure and gist of the text. b. To help students to use skimming strategy efficiently, especially by topic sentence and key words
Target Students
1. English level: Students have learned English for
several years, so they can read and express themselves in English.
2. Learning ability: students have mastered some
Music in America
Period One
Presenter : Ge Xiaofang
Leabharlann Baiduutline
１. Teaching Material ２. Target students ３. Teaching Aims ４. Teaching Key and Difficult Points ５. Teaching Methods & learning methods ６. Teaching Procedure
Part two
Country music
Origination Theme Instruments Its place in Americans
Jazz music
Time
Late 1800s
Event
1920s 1930s
Rock and Roll
Representatives Issues addressed
1 2
Pre-reading While-reading Post-reading Assignment
3
4
Step 1 Pre-reading ( 4 minutes)
Who is the singer? What style does his music belong to? Can you name some music styles?
Features
Pop music
Read and fill in the blanks
___________represents popular styles that have wide appeal. “Golden oldies” from the past bring back _________memories for many. Rap music burst into the music scene in the _________ and is more like ___________ repeated words. Rappers give a strong message about _________.
Ability objectives
1. To get students to improve their reading ability, especially skimming.
2. To get student to develop a creative way of thinking.
Emotion objectives
Purposes of design:
1. To develop students ability to search and group information via internet. 2. To enrich students’ cultural knowledge.
Teaching Methods and Learning Methods
1. Teaching Methods: The task-based teaching approach (skimming, listening and speaking). 2. Learning Methods: autonomous study and cooperative study
According to Bloom(1984)
Teaching Aims
Knowledge objectives
Ability objectives
Emotion objectives
Knowledge objectives:
1. To get students to know information about different American music styles. 2. To get students to get a better understanding of the text.
Teaching Material
1. Content: A passage taken from Integrated Course for normal students 2. Position and Importance: close to the end of the book an interesting and informative topic
Assignment(1minute)
Assignments: 1. Surf the internet and gather information as on one of music styles learned this period. 2. Present your work to classmates by PPT next period.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points
Teaching Key Points:
1. To get students to master the main idea quickly. 2. To get students to get information on different music styles.
b. To improve students’ ability of analyzing problems by understanding difficult sentences
Consolidation (5minutes)
1. Listen and guess (5minutes)
Country music Rock and roll Jazz music Rap music
Retell the text
Key words:
most Americans favorite style of music music styles in America a shared experience ----
Student activities: individual work and class work Purposes of design: a. To check whether students have understood the text or not b. To help them summarize the text and train oral English.
Purposes of teaching design: a. To arouse students’ interest b. To focus on the theme of the period quickly c. To create an easy and harmonious atmosphere
Post-reading(15minutes)
Discussion: 1. What contributes to a variety of music styles in America? 2. what’s the relationship between music and life?
Student activity: group work Purposes of the design: a. To help students understand the text further. b. To cultivate students’ team spirit c. To develop students’ way of thinking
Part three
Why does the author say music is a shared experience?
Student activities: individual work and pair work Purposes of design: a. To help student have a direct impression on each music style b. To help students know and distinguish each music style easily
learning methods and can learn things quickly and think independently.
3. Learning obstacle: they’re lack of interest and
confidence in English study owing to their weak foundation.
Intensive reading(13minutes)
Part one Read and answer questions: 1. Who is James Fenimore Cooper? 2. What does the sentence “ if that was once true, you would never know it today” mean?