Classical music Rock’ n’ Roll
Folk music
Jazz
Orchestra
Rap
Country music
Choral
Listen and match the music
with the picture (Warming up)
choral
country music
rap
folk music
rock ‘n’ Roll
classical music
jazz
orchestra
P34 Reading
The Backstreet Boys 后街男孩
The Eagles飞鹰乐队
The Beatles
披头士 (甲壳虫乐队)
The Monkees门基演唱组
The Monkees
1.What are the benefits if students
form a band to play in the street?
extra money
They can earnsome
__________
and can also
give them ________
a chance to realize their _____.
dream
2. When did “The Monkees” break
up and when did it reunite?
1970
“The Monkees” broke up in about_____
the mid-1980s
and it reunited in_____________.
3. Why was “The Monkees”
successful in their work?
about their work
Because they were serious
__________
worked very hard
Read the text as quickly as you can and find out
the main idea of each paragraph.
being famous
musician or singer.
Paragraph1:Dreaming of __________________
form bands
Paragraph 2:How musicians______________.
got their start
Paragraph 3:How the band _______________.
Paragraph 4:How the Monkees became serious
about________________.
their business
True or False
T 1.The writer believes that most of us have
dreamed of being a famous musician or
singer.
F 2.Bands in American are all formed by high
school students.
F 3.It was" The Beatles" that started in a
different way.
T 4.It was hard for the TV organizers to look
for good rock musicians.
T 5.At first," The Monkees" didn't play their
own songs.
F 6. " The Monkees" was as popular as" The
Beatles".
The Monkees is made of a band of
four musicians
_________, who
played jokes on
_____________each
other as well as
played music.
They gave so good performances
__________ that
their fans supported then fiercely.
A year _____
or so they became more
serious about their work, The
their own records
Monkees produced
____________________
and played their own music.
broke up in about 1970,
The band ________
reunited the mid-1980s.
but _________in
Retell the text.
If we are honest
____ ____ourselves,
most of us have
with
dreamed
of
____ ____being
famous sometimes in our live.
Most musicians often meet and ____a
form band.
passers-by
Sometimes they play in the street to _______
extra
so that they can earn some _____money
chance to realize
and this also give them a _____
their dreams. There was once a band started
in a different way. The musicians of whom
jokes on each other
the band was formedplayed
__________
as well as played music, whose music and
on “The Beatle”. Their
jokes were loosely based
__ ____
exciting performances were copied by
other groups. “The Monkees” played their
instruments and wrote their own music.
own _________
Though it _______
broke up in 1970, it reunited in the
mid-1980s and it is still popular today.
1.match=go with 与……相配;相等
Her clothes don’t match her age.
We must find carpets that’ll match the
curtains.
Do these red shoes go with the dress?
match=be equal to …in 在……方面与……匹
敌;势均力敌
No one can match him in knowledge of
classical music.
2.How does music make you feel?音乐使你
感觉如何？
make sb. do 使某人做….
make sth.done 使….被…
Because of my poor English, I am afraid I
can’t make myself understood .
B
Paul doesn’t have to be made ____.He
always works hard.
A. learn B. to learn C. learned D. learning
3. dream of (about)sth./doing sth.梦想…
dream of a better future
dream of becoming famous
When she was young, she dreamt of
being a doctor in the future.
4. honest
adj. 诚实的
dishonest
adj.不诚实的
honesty
n. 忠实
be honest with 对…说老实话,对某人
以诚相待
I will be honest with you.
If you are honest with the others,
they will help you a lot.
5. passer-by 过路人 pl. passers-by
looker-on 旁观者
lookers-on
6. extra adj. 额外的，特别的
adv.特别的，非常的
He is strong enough to carry the
cargo,I don’t think he needs some
extra help.
I bought this picture at an
extra high price.
7. play jokes on sb. =play a joke on
跟……开玩笑
play a trick on = play a trick on 捉弄某人
make fun of 取笑
laugh at 嘲笑
He is a serious man, don’t play jokes on
him.
Though old, they often play jokes on
each other.
We should never play tricks on the
others.
8. base on 基于…， 以…为根据
His argument is based on facts.
The writer based his book on a true story.
9. even +比较级
It’s even colder than yesterday.
even/much/a lot/far+比较级
The garden is much more beautiful than that
one.
of coming to
1. I have always dreamt ___
China, and now the dream has come true
___.
jokes on him. He is always
2. Don’t play
___________
serious and not at all humourous.
C
3. The police investigated those ___
about the accident.
A. stander-by B. standers-by
C. stander-bys D. standers-bys
A story about a frog
Hello, everyone.
My name is Freddy.
When Freddy was young, he was a
little tadpole.
As time went by quickly, he soon
became a frog.
One day, Freddy sat on the
water lily leaf and slid his
long, thin legs into the water.
Suddenly, he heard some music across
the lake.
……
Then what would happen?
Listen to the tape for the first time
and answer the following question.
What did Freddy find
when he swam slowly
towards the sound?
He found three confident
frogs sitting still on the leaf
and playing the instruments.
Listen to the tape for the second time and do the
true or false exercise.
1. Freddy had changed form a man to a
frog.
2. He felt lonely in his lake till he met his
friends on the lily leaf.
3. The singers of the band could sing very
loudly.
4. Freddy thought he could sing as well as
the other singing frogs.
5. Freddy was very confident about his
singing.
6. He sang the song to ask the other frogs
to be his friends.
F
T
T
T
F
T
We formed a
band and soon
we became
famous and went
to Britain to give
performances.
Then what would happen in Britain?
We would succeed or fail?
Did Freddy and his band get a
great success in Britain?
Yes, they got a great success
and became very popular in
Britain.
Read the text in detail and answer the
following questions.
1. What was Freddy’s most exciting
experience in London?
2. What happened when the
programme was over?
3. What problem was caused after
they became stars?
4. Did Freddy and his band leave
Britain at last?
Freddy
how
formed a band
went to Britain to
give performance
the result
problems caused by
being famous
why
left Britain
1. Freddy was now quite confident when he went
into the hall.
be confident + 从句
对……有信心
be confident of (about, in ) 对……有信心
He is quite confident that he’ll pass the driving
text.
Don’t be too confident in your own opinion.
Tom is confident of his ability to overcome the
difficulty.
2. He had to go to London, wear an
expensive suit and give a performance to a
TV camera.
performance n. 表演
performer n. 表演者
perform v. 表演，履行，执行，表现，性能
They put on a performance last night.
What play will be performed tomorrow?
Perform your promise.
The car performs well on hills.
One should perform one’s duties.
3. Then things went wrong, Freddy and his band
could not go out without being followed.
go wrong
……出了毛病
= Something is wrong with…
= There is something wrong with…
My watch went wrong yesterday.
What’s wrong with you?
He was done wrong. 他受了冤枉。