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2019-2020年高中英语必修8Unit2Theuniversallanguage-WordpowerStep 1: Brainstorming1. Guessing GameAt the beginning of todays class, lets play a guessing game. Here are several cards, in each of which is written an instrument. Id like one of you to give a brief description of them and other students to guess what they are.For reference1. piano: a large musical instrument with a row of black and white keys which are pressed to play notes. 2. violin: a wooden musical instrument with four strings which is held against the neck and played by moving a bow across the strings.3. guitar: a musical instrument with six strings and a long neck which is usually made of wood, and which is played by pulling or hitting the strings with the fingers.4. cello: a wooden musical instrument with four strings, that is held vertically between the legs and is played by moving a bow across the strings.5. trumpet: a brass musical instrument consisting of a metal tube with one narrow end, into which the player blows, and one wide end. Three buttons are pressed in order to change notes. 6. horn: a curved musical instrument made of metal, which is narrow at the end you blow down to make a sound, and wider towards the other end.7. flute: a tube-shaped musical instrument with a hole that you blow across at one end while holding the tube out horizontally to one side of you.8. clarinet: a tube-shaped musical instrument which is played by blowing through a single reed and pressing the metal keys to produce different notes.9. cymbal: a flat round musical instrument made of brass, which makes a loud noise when hit with a stick or against another cymbal.10. bass drum: a large drum that produces a low sound2. QuestionsDo you know how to play the piano/violin/guitar?Have you ever seen a live orchestra performance or seen any orchestras playing on TV? What was it like?What is an orchestra like?What kind of music is performed by an orchestra?Do you know any famous orchestras in China or in other places around the world?For referenceUsually there are two types of orchestra. A chamber orchestra is a small group, and a symphony or philharmonic orchestra is a larger group which includes all of the instrument families.The music that an orchestra plays is usually classical.The members of an orchestra are musicians, including the conductor, the pianist, the violinist, the flutist and so on. There are different types of musical instruments in an orchestra. The percussion family includes the piano, the timpani, the xylophone, the triangle, the snare drum, the bass drum, the woodblocks and the gongs. The brass family are the trumpet, the horn, the trombone and the tuba. The woodwind family members are the flute, the clarinet, the oboe and the bassoon. Sometimes the saxophone also joins the orchestra. The string section has four kinds of stringed instruments in the orchestrathe violins, the violas, the cellos and the double basses.Step 2: Vocabulary learning1. Please read Part A, and then plete the following chart.Small: a _orchestra (chamber)An orchestra large: a _ orchestra (symphony/philharmonic) _ (strings) _ (woodwind) Four groups of musical instruments _ (brass) _ (percussion) _ classical music (Western) _ (opera) Music of an orchestra popular music Music from different _(countries)2. Please focus on Part B and then finish the exercise.AnswersB strings: harp, violas, double bassesbrass: saxophones, trombones, tubaswoodwind: oboes, bassoons, piccolospercussion: timpani, xylophones, gongs3. Read the passage in Part C. Fill in the missing words.AnswersC (1) orchestra (2) chamber (3) symphony (4) strings (5) brass (6) violins4. Answer the following questions according to the passage in Part C.What instruments are in the string section?What instruments are in the brass section?What instruments are in the string woodwind section?What instruments are in the percussion section?Step 3: Vocabulary extension1. Now, lets e to Part D. Next time while watching the concert, be aware of these musical instruments.Answers D the instruments in red: stringsthe instruments in blue: woodwindthe instruments in green: brassthe instruments in yellow: percussion 2. Readingwords: 258 time: 6City people usually think they are a lot smarter than country people. They often laugh at simple country ways. But people do not laugh at country music. It is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today. Perhaps it is so popular because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events, love, sadness, good times and bad times. It tells real-life stories the way people really talk. As life bees more and more plicated, it is good to hear music about ordinary people. Country music, sometimes called country-western, es from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the West. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said country music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South. They learned to like country music. Slowly it became popular all over the world. Today country music is popular everywhere in the United States and Canada, in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educators and uneducated people. About 1200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. People sing it in their languages. The music that started with cowboy and poor farmers is now popular all over the world.
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