Unit 5 Music

Period 2  Reading—The Band That Wasn’t     

Learning aims:

1. Enable the students to sum up the main idea of each paragraph.

2. Enable the students to understand the details about the passage, and join the correct parts of the sentences together 

3. Get the students to retell the text using the key words.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Warming Up 

1. Leading-in

Question1. Do you like music? How does music nake you feel?

Question2. Can you name any music style?

Step 2. Pre-reading

Question1: Do you know any famous bands in the world?

Question2: Do you know anything about the The Monkees?

Step3. While Reading

1)Skimming

Task1. Read the text quickly and silently to get the main idea of each paragraph. (閱讀技巧：以默讀形式快速瀏覽文章每一段的首句或者末尾句信息來確定答案)

Paragraph1. ______            A. Many people dream of being famous singers or musicians.

Paragraph2. ______            B. How the Monkees became popular and how they developed as a real band

Paragraph3.______             C. How musicians form bands

Paragraph4.______             D. The Monkees started in a different way

2)Scanning

Task1. Read the text to answer the questions.(閱讀技巧：以跳讀方式快速瀏覽文章來確定信息)

1.How many musicians were there when the band was formed at the beginning?

 A. Four    B. Three   C. Two   D. One

2.When did the Monkees break up and when did it reunite?

A1970; 1996    B. 1970; 1990    C. 1970; the mid-1980s      D. 1968; 1986

Task2. Join the correct parts of the sentences together 

1 They produced a new record in 1996              A .but only one person was accepted.

2 Most musicians get together and                 B. but reunited in the mid-1980s.

3 They put an advertisement in the newspaper        C. form a band because they like to write and play music.

looking for four rock musicians,

4 The first TV shows                            D. to celebrate their time as a band.

5 However, the band broke up about 1970,           E. was a big hit.

3)Careful reading

Task1. True or False (Read the text in detail to find the information and correct the false ones)

1.The writer believes that lots of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous . (   )

2.Some bands in American must start as a group of high school students. （   ）

3.It was" The Beatles" that started in a different way. （   ）

4.It was hard for the TV organizers to look for good rock musicians. （   ）

5.At first," The Monkees" didn't play their own songs. （   ）

Task2. How was The Monkees formed and became a real band?

1. beginning of the band: It bagan as a ______ _______.

2. style of the performance: They_______ _______ _____ each other as well as played music.

3.first performance feature(特色): Most of them were based loosely on the band called________________.

4.development of the band: They became more serious about their work and started to_______ and write their_____ _________like a real band.

5.changes of the band: The band ________ _______in about 1970, but reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a ______________in 1996.

Step 4. Post- reading

Task1. To fill in the blanks to get the summary of the passage and try to retell the passage.

     Many musicians meet and _______ a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high school students. They may play to _________ in the street or subway. Later they may give _______ in pubs or clubs, for which they can get _______ money. Of course they hope to make records in a studio and sell millions of copies to _______ more money. However. there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. Som TV organizers planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing, but to be _______, they could only find one who was good enough.They had to use actors for the other three members of the band. As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to ________other musicians to help them. They just pretend to sing during the _________. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after about a year in which they became more ________ about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real ban. The band _______ in1970, but reunited in the mid-1980s.

Step 5. Assignment

1. Review the important words or expressions of the text.

2. Try to retell the passage.