Module 3 music Aims and requirementsTo 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 unitTo develop the students reading abilityTo help the students learn and use two grammars (adverbial clause of time and the past perfect tense) in different situationsTo help the students to write a biography of a person, using the time expressions in Grammar 1Teaching proceduresPeriod 1 Introduction ，Warming upTeaching aims: Enabling the students to 1. know some words about music 2. know something about three great composersstep1. Warming up by listening pieces of music and asking questionsPlay 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 discussing1) 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 musicGood 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 for others to sing or to play. Now,lets listen to a piece of music.(the teacher plays a piece of music -er quan yingyue)1. do you know what kind of music it is?2. whose work is it?3. what kind of music is it?4. what is your feeling after listening to it?Step 4 show the following pictures And make the students familiar with these new words:Piano violin saxphone drum erhu guitarstep4. now please match these musical instruments with their names.Step 5 work in groups to discuss these questions:1. which of the instruments do you like listening to?2. which famous musicians play them?3. is the chinese instruments different from the other instruments?describe the difference,if there is one.Step6 summary and homework:Today weve learnt the Introduction,know something about music,and weve also learnt some new words. The homework:1.Try to instruct your favorite musician to your class orally.2.Learn the new words again, using the dictionary if necessaryPeriods 2 Reading and Vocabulary Teaching Aims:Train the students reading ability.Learn some useful words and expressions.Teaching Important Points.Help the students to understand the passage better. Learn and master some important words and phrases in this period. Teaching Difficult Points:How to help the students improve their reading and understand the passage better. Teaching Methods:Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.Careful reading to understand the passage better. Discussion to help the students understand what theyve learned better. Teaching procedure. Step 1 Lead -in The teacher may play a kind of music written by Beethoven.- What kind of music do you think it?- Who do you know wrote it ?The teacher may discuss the questions and answer them freely. T: As we know, there are various kinds of music around the world. They all have their own obvious characteristic. And also there were famous composers such as Joseph Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Today we may learn of their life from the text. Step 2 Reading comprehension. Fast reading: Read the passage quickly and choose the best title. A. Three Great Austrian Composers.B. Three Great Composer of the eighteenth Century. C. Three Great Child Composers. Key: . Now lets read the passage again, underline new words in the text and decide whether the following statements are right or not. 1. The three composers were all born in Austria.2. Mozart had a beautiful singing voice. 3. Mozart died before his fortieth birthday.4. Beethoven once worked at the court of a prince, who began to go deaf when he grew older.5. Beethoven had ever met Haydn, but he didnt think he taught him a lot. 6. Both Haydn and Mozart had fathers who were musicians. Key: 1. F Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. 2. F. Haydn had a good singing voice. 3. T 4. F. Haydn once worked at the court of a prince, but he didnt go deaf.5. T6. F. Haydn was the son of a peasant( The teacher may begin with the T/F questions orally and this is a good time to test their listening abilities as well as their comprehension of the text. )Step 3 Read and listen to the passage. Meanwhile, some more questions are waiting for you. 1. How did Haydn change the form of symphonies?2. How long did he work in eastern Austria?3. How many pieces of music did Mozart compose?4. How old was he when he played for the Empress of Austria?5. How