1、1Do you like music?Music means a lot to human beings.Music is fun and for your spirit.Without music,life is a journey through a desert.2Music produces a kind of pleasure which humannature cannot do without.Confucius Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.Leigh HuntMusic is moonlight in the gloo
2、my night of life.Jean Paul RichterMusic washes away from the soul the dust ofeveryday life.Berthold Auerbach34567Classical musicRockn RollOrchestraRapFolk musicJazzCountry musicChoral89What kind of music do you like better,Chinese or Western,classical or modern?Why?101.Do you know any famous bands?L
3、ist.2.Which one do you like best?Why?A band is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music.11BeyondBeyondYu Quan12Backstreet boysBackstreet boysThe BeatlesThe Beatles13The Monkees the most popular band in the USA from 1966 to 1968!A big hit!14Do you know anything about t
4、heDo you know anything about theMonkees?Monkees?15Fast Reading Why the names of Song Zuying and Liu Huan are mentioned in P1?A.Because they are very famous.B.Because they can sing very well.C.Because the text only want us to know them.D.Because the text is giving us some examples of the famous singe
5、rs that we might want to be like.16Why were the Monkees said tostart in a different way?A.They played jokes on each other.B.Only had three members at first.C.They were formed by TV producers.D.The members were actors.171.Join the correct parts of the sentences together.1 They produced a new record i
6、n 19962 Most musicians get together and 3 They put an advertisement in the newspaper looking for four rock musicians,4 The first TV shows5 However,the band broke up about 1970,A but only one person was accepted.B but reunited in the mid-1980s.C form a band because they like to write and play music.D
7、 to celebrate their time as a band.Careful-reading E was a big hit.182.Match main ideas with paragraphs Para 1:Para 2:Para 3:Para 4:The Monkees started in a different way.Many people want to be famous as singers or musicians.How the Monkees became popular and how they developed as a real band.This i
8、s how most bands start.193.True or false questions(1).The band began as a TV show.(2).The TV organizers had looked for five musicians who were lovely and who could make good music.(3).Each week the group that was called“The Monkees”would play a song or two written by themselves.(4).The band broke up in 1970,but reunited in the mid-1980s.(5).In 1999,they produced a new record to celebrate their time as band.TFFTT201.Review the reading text.2.Remember new words and expressions.3.Finish Discovering useful words and expressions.Homework2122
