Experiment in FolkPPT课件

2.What qualities do we need to do experiments , no matter in life or in study?
Kong Xiangdong, who is a famous pianist in China as well as in the world, helps transform Chinese music.
Kong explained
that he combined
Chinese folk music with the piano
because he want to
try something new.
Read the text and answer these questions. 1.What kind of music is Kong Xiangdong most famous for?
Kong’s new experiment in Chinese folk music was so important that he even changed his appearance. He arrived at his first performance of Chinese folk music with all his hair shaved off.
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Lesson 19
Experiment in Folk
Biblioteka Baidu
Kong goes for folk!
Some experiments make you laugh.
Some experiments make you succeed.
Kong Xiangdong’s file : Birth: born in 1968 in Shanghai, Awards: youngest winner of the 1986 Moscow International Piano Competition and the 1987 Santander piano competition in Spain. Won the 1988 Gina Bachauer Award, and in 1992 took first prize and four special awards at the Fifth Sydney International Piano Competition. In 1999, Kong and Oscar winning composer Giorgio Moroder performed their joint composition the Tibet Dream suite in Lhasa
3. Why did Kong shave off his hair? He shaved off his hair to show that his music style was new, just like his new hairstyle.
Part 3. Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences according to the text.
1. Music has always been an imortant part of Kong’s life_____.
2. Kong wanted to play Chinese folk music_____.
3. Kong became an award-winning musician in 1986______.
He is most famous for classical music.
2. What did Kong achieve in 1986?
He became the youngest prize winner in Moscow’s Thaikovsky International Competition.
a) Because he perserved through hardship. b) Because his mother was a great music lover. c) Because he wanted to try something new.
Key: b c a
Voice your opinion 1.Do you think it is important for a person to continue to try new things? Why?