The sounds of the world

Teaching goals : Talk about different kinds of music .

Practising giving advice and making suggestion

Review the passive voice .

Write a comparison essay .

Time arrangement : Five periods

Students : Intermediate

Teaching Method : Task-based Language Teaching

Period 1

Content : Warming-up, listening, speaking

Moral Focus :

(1): Help students enrich their knowledge about the world-wide music .

(2): Raise students’ interest in music and their love the world-wide music .

Teaching Aims :

(1): Increase students’ oral English by asking them to do some discussion.

(2): Improve students’ listening ability by do some listening .

(3): Improve students’ speaking ability by asking them to make some dialogue ,.

(4) : Improve students’ ability to cooperate with others by making dialogue .

Teaching Methods :

(1): Do some discussion to enable the students to express themselves freely .

(2): Do some listening to improve students’ listening ability .

Teaching Aids : a tape-recorder , a computer

Teaching Steps :

Step 1 : Lead-in & Warming-up .

(1): Ask students a question : “ What is your hobby?”

Some students must say that they like listening to music , then lea the topic in .

(2): Ask students to listen to the music on the tape-recorder and ask them to do some discussion about it and tell their feeling according to their won understanding .

Step 2 : Listening .

Ask students to do the listening part and finish t

exercise on P72. then check the answer with them .

Step 3: Speaking

(1): Explain to the students about the background of the dialogue , then ask them to read the dialogue given on the book .

(2): Tell students some useful expressions related to how to make suggestions and give advice .

(3): Ask students to make their own dialogue with their own dialogues with their deskmates .

(4): Ask some students to present their dialogue in front of the class .

Step 4 : Summary & Homework Assignment .

Summarize what learnt in this period .

Assign the homework .

(1) Preview the reading .

(2) Review the useful expressions learnt today .

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Period 2

Teaching Content : Reading

Moral focus : Enrich students’ knowledge about different kinds of music around the world and help them get a better understanding on the idea “ Global Village”

Teaching Aims :

(1) : Improve students’ reading ability .

(2) : Help students’ learn more about the world-wide music .

(3) : Master some useful phrases and expressions .

Teaching Methods :

(1) : Do some discussion to improve students’ oral English .

(2) : Do the fast-reading to get the main idea of the text .

(3) : Do some scanning to better their understanding .

(4) : Do some explanation to help students master some important phrases .

(5) : do some True or False exercise to consolidate their understanding on the text .

Teaching Aids : A tape-recorder and a computer

Teaching Procedures :

Step 1: Greeting and revision :

Greet students as usual , and review the useful expr

learnt last period .

Step 2: Pre-reading

Ask students to do some discussion about the question given on P73.

Ask students to make a dialogue using the questions given and then present to the classmates .

Step 3: Skimming .

Ask students to skim the reading text as fast as they can

with the following question :

“ What kinds of music are mentioned in the text ?”

Step 4 : Listening & Scanning

Ask students to listen to the tape recorder ,

understand the text better .

Explain some important sentences to the students to

help them understand the text better . Help students

master some important phrases .

Step 5 : Post –reading

Ask students to do some discussion to finish Exercise1

Exercise 2 on P74.

Step 6: Summary & Homework

Summarize what learnt in this period and assign

the homework :

(1): Review the reading text.

(2): Finish Exercises on Qidong Homework Book.

(3): Preview the grammar .

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Period 3

Content : Word Study and Grammar

Moral Focus : Enrich students’ grammar about passive povice so as to improve their English and make them more confident in English study .

Teaching Aims :

(1) : Enrich students’ vocabulary .

(2) : Review the passive voice we learnt .

(3) : Better their understanding on passive voice .

(4) : make students active in the class .

Teaching Aids : computer

Teaching Procedures :

Step 1 : Greeting & Revision

Greet students as usual , review what learnt yesterday by asking them a few questions related to the text .

Step 2 : Word Study

First give students the idea that just as many Chinese characters , many English words also have different meanings in different situations , so as to lead in this period’s vocabulary study .

Then ask students to finish exercises on P74 and check answers with them .

Step 3: Ask students to finish exercise 1 , exercise 2 on P146 so as to consolidate their vocabulary learnt in this unit .

Step 4: Grammar Learning

(1) Preview the passive Voice learnt before .

Explain to the students the main language points related to the passive voice as well as some special grammar points.

(2) Ask students to finish exercise 1, exercise 2 by themselves . By doing this , students can check their comprehension on passive voice . Also deepen their understanding on this language points.

(3) Ask students to finish exercise 1 on P147.

Step 5: Summary & Homework Assignment .

Summarize what learnt in this period , assign the homework :

Review the grammar point.

Finish exercise 3 on P147 and hand in .

Finish “ Qidong homework” if possible .

Preview Integrating skills .

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Period 4

Content : Integrating Skills

Moral Focus : Help students learn more about the music, especially the Pop music and Rock music to broaden their eyesight.

Teaching Aims :

(1) : Improve students’ reading ability .

(2) : Improve students’ listening ability .

(3) : Enrich students’ knowledge about knowledge .

(4) : Make students’ active in class .

Teaching Aids : Computer, Tape-recorder

Teaching Procedures ;

Step 1 : Greeting & Revision

Greet students as usual and review the grammar point and vocabulary learnt in last period by doing some related exercise .

Step 2: Lead-in & Skimming

Ask students what is their favourite kind of music . There must be some students mention Rock Music or Pop music, then lead in this period’s topic .

Also ask students to think over the following question :

“ From which aspects do Pop music differ from the Rock music ?”

Step 3 : Reading

(1) : Ask students to listen to the tape and also underline some difficult language points according to their understanding .

(2) : Do some explanation related to the content of the text to help them understand the text better . also ask students raise some questions if they have .

Step 4 : Ask students to do some discussion and make a comparison between Pop music and Rock music .

Step 5 : Ask students to read the text on P148 and get the main idea of this text .

Then ask them to do some discussion and finish Exercise 1 , exercise 2 on P19 ( first part )

Step 6: Ask students to make a dialogue according to the questions and answers on P149.

Step 7 : Summary & Homework

Summarize what learnt in this period and assign the homework.

(1) : Finish the left exercise on the book.

(2) : Preview the content learnt in this period .

(3) : Finish Qidong homework if possible

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Period 5

Content : Writing

Moral Focus : Improve students’ English writing ability so as to raise their interest in learning English .

Teaching Aims :

(1) : Improve students’ writing ability .

(2) : Better students’ ability to make comparison between two things .

(3) : Help students learn how to write a short essay in English .

Teaching Aids : Computer

Teaching Procedures :

Step 1 : Greeting & Revision

Greet students as usual and review the content learnt in last period .

Step 2: Check the answers to the left exercises on workbook .

Step 3: Ask students to read the reading text “American Country Music” again ,then try to do some discussion about the questions related to the difference among American music in different periods , and ask students try to make a comparison by listing the differences on the paper themselves .

Step 4: Give students some instruction about how to write short essay in English to compare different objects .

Step 5 : Ask students to write a short essay on the topic “ American music at different periods” according to the list they just made .

Step 6 : Ask students to do some discussion about the differences between “Traditional Chinese Music “ and “ Modern Chinese Music” from the following aspects : Instruments, Period , Writer , Content .

Step 7 : Summary & Homework Assignment

Summarize what learnt in this period and then assign the homework : Write a short essay on the topic of “ Chinese Traditional Music VS Chinese Modern Music”

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