高中英语Unit 5 Music教案设计

Unit 5 Music

Period 2 Reading and Thinking

The virtual choir教学设计

This section focuses on "learning about experiencing music Online". This virtual choir is a new form of music performance. Members from all over the world don't need to love to come to a place. Instead, they use the new technology to model the various parts and wonderful virtual harmony group of music in the family.

Students need to understand the main meaning of each paragraph. Finding topic sentences is an important way to understand the general idea of a paragraph. After the topic sentence, it is usually the detail sentence that supports and explains the topic sentence. Some paragraphs have obvious subject sentences, for example, the first sentence of the second paragraph is the subject sentence of the paragraph, and the following sentence

Students need to pay attention to the topic sentences and key sentences, and then pay attention to how the sentences after the meaning explain, explain and support the topic sentences or key sentences before.

1.Guide students to learn about experiencing music online

2.Guide students to scan and circle the information in the text.

3.Guide students to find the numbers and dates to fill in the timeline.

4.Guide students to learn more about music by completing the sentences with the correct forms of the words and phrases. And then make a mind map about the outline of the passage.

1. Guide students to pay attention to reading strategies, such as prediction, self-questioning and scanning.

2. Help students sort out the main meaning of each paragraph and understand the narrative characteristics of "timeline” in illustrative style.

3. Lead students to understand the changes that have been caused by the Internet.

Lead in:

1.What are the ways for people to experience music?

By listen to radios or watch TV or attend concerts.

2. How can the Internet help us experience music differently?

We can listen to music on the Internet or download music from the Internet and share what we like Listening to with our close friends.

Step 1: Predict the main idea of the passage

Look at the title and the pictures, and then predict what the passage will be about.

Q: What will be talked about?

About the introduction of the Virtual Choir

Step2: Fast reading tasks

Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.

•          Paragraph 1:  What is a virtual choir

•          Paragraph 2: Eric Whitacre—the creator of the virtual choir

•          Paragraph 3: Eric’s first virtual choir

•          Paragraph 4: the importance of the virtual choir

Step 3: Read the passage quickly to solve the following questions.

1. Who is the man coming up with the idea for a virtual choir and where did he study musical composition?

He is called Eric who studies at Juilliard School.

2. What is the name of his song?

What if

3．If you want to take part in a virtual choir，What things may you need?

Video camera 

An Internet connection

A studio 

4．At what age did Eric receive his master’s degree in musical composition?

27 

5．What caused Eric Whitacre to fall in love with classical music?

Mozart’s music

6．It is proved that a virtual choir has a ____________influence on the lives of many people.

A．pessimistic     B．Positive C．negative     D．neutral

B

Step 4: Read the text quickly and fill in the form.

2 January 19 ____  Eric Whitacre was born.

19 ____ Whitacre attended the University of Nevada，

1995Las Vegas.

19 ____  Whitacre got a master’s degree from the Juilliard School in New York.

2009 Whitacre first got the idea for the virtual choir.

His first virtual choir used ________ singers from ________ different countries；received more than ________________ views on the Internet.

 ____ July 2014 Whitacre formed the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF， ________ young people from ________ countries sang “what If”.

70；88；97；185；12；millions of；23；2,292；80

Step 5　Consolidate:

Eric Whitacre was born in the USA 1.___________ on January 2,1970.when he studied music at the University of Nevada in 1988，he fell in love 2.__________ with Mozart’s classical music.3.__________ Moved (move)by his music，he said that it was like seeing color for the first time. After 4. __________graduating/graduation (graduate)from university in 1995，he received his master’s degree in 1997.Over the next 10 years，Whitacre’s 5__________ original (origin)compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers,6. __________which led to the creation of the virtual choir.

When he received a video of a girl who was singing one of his 7.__________works (work)in 2009，he asked his fans 8.__________ to make (make)videos，which he then joined together into one performance. Since  then，the virtual choir 9.__________ has become (become)a worldwide phenomenon. It has proved to be 10.__________a positive influence on the lives of many people.

1.on 2.with 3.Moved 4.graduating/graduation  5.original

6.which 7.works   8.to make 9.has become 10.a