Unit 5 Music Warming up and reading

Music means a lot to human beings. Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt Music is moonlight in the gloomy （阴暗）night of life.  ~Jean Paul Richter Music washes away from the soul （心灵）the dust of everyday life.  ~Berthold Auerbach 音乐能洗掉日常生活中落在灵魂上的灰尘

Can you name any different kind of music?

Orchestra Rap Country music Choral Jazz Rock’n’ Roll Classical music Folk music Jazz

Do you know any famous bands? List. Which one do you like best? If a group of two or more musicians sing or play instruments together, they will be called a . band Do you know any famous bands? List. Which one do you like best?

Yu Quan Beyond

S.H.E Fahrenheit (flywheel)

Backstreet boys The Beatles

Have you ever heard of the Monkees? Do you know anything about them?

The Monkees --- the most popular band in the USA from 1966 to 1968

Fast Reading Why are the names of Song Zuying and Liu Huan mentioned in P1? A. Because they are very famous. B. Because they can sing very well. C. Because the text wants us to know them. D. Because the text is giving us some examples of the famous singers that we might want to be like. D

Why were the Monkees said to start in a different way? A. They played jokes on each other all the time. B. Only had three members at first. C. They were formed by TV producers. D. The members were all actors. C

Most musicians like to form a band because they enjoy playing to passers-by in the street or subway. only the band “The Monkees” is mentioned in the text. Some bands formed by high school students earn extra money by playing to passers-by. The TV organizers had found 4 musicians who could make good music. Though the band pretended to sing at first, they were popular with the fans. The Monkees broke up in 1970 and reunited in 1980. F F T F T F True or false

Go over the passage and look for the main idea of each paragraph. Dreaming of being a famous singer or musician. 1 2 How musicians form bands. How “The Monkees” was formed 3 4 The development of “ The Monkees”.

Phrases 部分 梦想 说实在的 认为…有重要性 挣钱 支付 演出 用现金 录制唱片 10. 开玩笑 11. 根据 12. 在报纸上登广告 13. 指望，依靠 14. 熟悉 15. 大约， 16. 认真对待 17. 解散

Phrases 部分 梦想 说实在的 认为…有重要性 挣钱 支付 演出 用现金 录制唱片 part of dream of to be honest attach great importance to earn money pay for give perfomances in cash make records/ produce records

10. 开玩笑 11. 根据,以…为基础 12. 在报纸上登广告 13. 指望，依靠 14. 熟悉 15. 大约， 16. 认真对待 play jokes on base on put an advertisement in a newspaper rely on sb get familiar with sth or so be serious about break up 10. 开玩笑 11. 根据,以…为基础 12. 在报纸上登广告 13. 指望，依靠 14. 熟悉 15. 大约， 16. 认真对待 17. 解散

play jokes on base on put an advertisement in a newspaper rely on sb get familiar with sth or so be serious about 17 break up part of dream of to be honest attach great importance to earn money pay for give perfomances in cash make records/ produce records

Some difficult sentences

9. They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. 他们在报纸上登了一则广告，想招摇滚歌手， 但是他们只招到一个满意的。 1 looking for rock musicians 是现在分词短语作定语，修饰 advertisement。 They built a highway leading to the mountains. 老师喜欢学习用功的学生 Teachers are all fond of students working hard. who was good enough 是定语从句， 修饰先行词one, who指认，作主语。 2

However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. in which they became more serious about their work是定语从句，修饰year。in which在这里相当于when。

Gone are the days when (=during which) my heart was young and gay. 你记得 那一天吗？ 你去听音乐会的 Do you remember the day when (on which) you went to the concert?

or so 大约 It'll only cost 15 dollars or so. Mr. Smith will be back in a day or so. 注意： or so “大约；……左右” ，通常位于数量词之后。

Most of us have __________ ______ being famous in our lives Most of us have __________ ______ being famous in our lives. Most musicians often meet and __________ a band. Sometimes they play in the street to ___________ so that they can earn some ______ money and this also gives them a ________ to realize their dreams. There was once a band that started in a ____________ way. The musicians were to ______ _______ _____ each other as well as play music. Their music were loosely _______ ____ “The Beatles”. Their exciting performance were copied by other groups. “The Monkees” played their own _________ and wrote their own music. Though it _______ ______ in 1970, it __________ in the mid-1980s and it is still popular today. dreamed of form passers-by extra chance different play jokes on based on songs broke up reunited

Discussion How to form a band of your own? choose a name for a band Step 1 Step 2 What kind of music to play? Step 3 How to make a band famous? Who will play the instruments and who will sing? Step 4

Homework 1. Review the new words and expressions. 2. Review the text and pick out the sentences that contain prep + whom / which attributive clauses.