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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 1,Yesterday Once More,Read,A Letter for You,and then you can know something about the aims of this,unit.It will help you learn this unit well.,A Letter for You,Aims of this unit,1.Understand the lyrics and the theme of,Yesterday.,2.,Develop students four skills,mainly,listening and speaking.,3.Develop pronunciation skills through the song.,4.Be able to use some vocabulary and sentence structures in the song.,5.Get familiar with the use of synecdoche.,6.Learn to sing the song.,Pre-enjoying,Pre-Enjoying,What kind of things will hit your mind first when you look back on yesterday？,Yesterday,My kindergarten years.,Cartoons.,My old friends.,My past teachers.,My toys.,My primary school years.,My junior middle school year.,Some old songs.,The mistakes that I made.,The shining moment when I achieved success.,Something important to my family.,The road to my school.,The most successful joke I made.,The secret that Ive kept for a long time.,My parents looks several years ago.,When you see the word“yesterday”,which of the following will first jump into your mind?Tick off(,)your choices.,When I,look back on,the past,I feel sad.,Why,my friend.I wonder what has happened to you.,Three years ago,I failed the college entrance exam.I,broke,my parents,heart.,At the same time,I lost my friends.No one wants to play football,along,with me.And all of them began to leave me.Its terrible.,The Carpenters,Background Knowledge,1.Who are the Carpenters?,The Carpenters are the most successful brother/sister act of all time.With their gentle melodies and the amazing voice of Karen Carpenter,their middle-of-the-road（中庸的）music has universal appeal,and is enjoyed by many different generations.,They rapidly rose to fame in the early 1970s and wooed（招来）millions of fans with their clean image.As part of a close family,sheltered in each others company,the Carpenters were seen as extremely young Americans,role models for a generation.,Perhaps the pressure of maintaining this image was too much,for towards the end of the 70s both Richard and Karen were in poor health.Where Richard was addicted to a form of sleeping pills,Karen was suffering from the eating disorder,known as anorexia nervosa(厌食症),which eventually took her life.,But with a catalogue as rich as the Carpenters their music lives on.The beauty of their sound and the sadness of their story combine to make them truly worth the status they hold.,2.More About the Carpenters,A single is a good test of recording artists ability to be both concise and compelling(令人佩服的).The performers has just a few minutes to grab and hold the listeners attention;to communicate something so powerful that people cant wait to hear it again.,Few artists in pop history have passed this test as consistently as the Carpenters.From“Close to You”in 1970 to|Only Yesterday”in 1975,Karen and Richard never missed the Top 15.The Carpenters were#1 American-born hit-makers of the 1970s.And Karen and Richards success went far beyond their homeland:They topped the charts from Holland to Hong Kong.Karens vocal style combined the most attractive traits of several other legendary American singer.She had the warm,pure tones of Nat“King”Cole,the seeming effortlessness of Perry Como,the clarity and precision of Barbra Streisand,and the vulnerability(脆弱)of Judy Garden.It was this quality that most impressed the late Henry Mancini.“Karen had a quality about her that was so vulnerable,so exposed,that she just demanded attention,”she said.“Whatever she sang came right from the heart.”,3.About Yesterday Once More,Richard and John Bettis wrote“,Yesterday Once More,”in response to nostalgia（怀旧）craze of the early 70s.The wistful(沉思)ballad,which set up the oldies medley on the,Now And Then,（有时）album,became a smash（大成功）in its own right(因本身条件)in the summer of 1973.The song went gold and reached#2 in both the U.S.and the U.K.It did even better in Japan,where it became one of the best-selling singles of all time.,More songs from the Carpenters:,1.Top of the World 2.Jambalaya,3.Sing 4.Close to You,5.A Kind of Hush 6.Superstar,7.Please Mr.Postman 8.I Need to Be in Love,2.,What does“Yesterday Once More”mean?,something that happens today feels like some past experiences,something that happened yesterday is happening again now,something from the past comes into my mind,Enjoying the Song,Enjoying the Song,What do you think of the style of this song?,I think the song is_.,Encouraging,cheerful,c.very sad,d.slightly blue,Focus on music,1,.Listen to the song again.Choose from the boxes the statement that can best describe,the song,.,The song is about an old story that happened yesterday.,The song is the one that the singer usually sang when she was still a little girl,.,The song is about the worry that the singer has about her future.,The song is about the singers yearning(怀念)for the past.,The song shows the singers fear and hatred of the present life.,Focus on comprehension,Word Bank,1.listen to the radio
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