1、人 教 必 修 二 Unit 5 Reading and ThinkingLearn about experiencing music online(I)教学目 Lead-in视频：the virtual choir 学习目标学习目标12To scan the text to find important information such as dates,numbers,and namesTo get the information of the virtual choir by reading.目标一：目标一：To scan the text to find important infor
2、mation such as dates,numbers,and namesActivity 1:Look through page 52 and page 53,find out the words in bold and the new phrases,read them in pairs.Then read together as a whole and share their usage.virtual,composition,opportunity,perform,performance,performer,onto,studio,ordinary,enable,prove,awar
3、d,composer,conductor,original,phenomenon,stage,altogether,thus,band,rap,nowadays,virtual choir,fall in love with Activity 2:Before you read,discuss the question in groups.How can computers and the Internet help us experience music differently?We can listen to and download the music from different co
4、untries;We can watch and give a concert online;We can sing songs with people from different countries;.Activity 3:Scan and circle the information in the text.1 The man who came up with the idea for a virtual choir.2 The place where he studied musical composition.3 The name of his song.Scanscan a tex
5、t to find important information(specific information)such as dates,numbers,and names.How to scanTry to predict how the answer will appear and what clues you might use to help you locate the answer.For example,if you were looking for certain date,you would quickly read the paragraph looking only for
6、numbers.Use key words or any other aids that will help you identify which sections might contain the information you are looking for.Selectively read and skip through sections of the passage.1 Eric Whitacre 2 the Juilliard School 3.What If目标二：目标二：To get the information of the virtual choir by readin
7、g.Activity 1:Read the passage and find out the main idea of each paragraph.Paragraph one:_Paragraph two:_Paragraph three:_Paragraph four:_Introduction of the virtual choirThe story of the creator Eric WhitacreInspiration and development of the virtual choirThe function and significance of the virtua
8、l choirActivity 2:Read the text again and answer the questions.1.How is virtual choir different from other choirs?Who can take part in it?2.What caused Eric Whitacre to fall in love with classical music?What gave him inspiration to make his first virtual choir?1.You can perform alone on video;You do
9、nt even need a studio;Anyone can take part in a virtual choir from anywhere.2.He fell in love with Mozarts classical music when he sang for the university choir.Moved by this music,he said,“It was like seeing color for the first time.”A video of a girl who was singing one of his works.人 教 必 修 二 Unit
10、 5 Reading and ThinkingLearn about experiencing music online(II)Activity 3:Find the numbers and dates to fill in the timeline.2 January 19_Eric Whitacre was born.19_-1995Whitacre attended the University of Nevada,Las Vegas.19_Whitacre got a masters degree from the Juilliard School in New York.2009Wh
11、itacre first got the idea for virtual choir.His first virtual choir used _ singers from _ different countries;received _ views on the Internet._ July 2014Whitacre formed the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF._young people from _ countries sang“What If”.7088972318512millions of2,29280Activity 4:Figure o
12、ut the structure of the passage.A virtual choirWhat makes a virtual choirWho created the virtual originally How he created the virtual choir Influence of the virtual choirActivity 5:Learn more about music by completing the sentences with the correct forms of the words and phrase.Then make a mind map
13、 about what music means to you.ordinary remind perform award effort individual fall in loveenable stage studio original prove onto opportunity 1.Last night I went to see my friends new rock band _ on _ at a small local music festival.2.This new pop song _ me of an old song that was _ sung by Billy W
14、hite but later made popular by another singer.performstageremindsoriginally3.Im so happy!My favourite singer just won a music _.This _ that all the _ she put into her work was worth it.4.I _ with rap music when I was a teenager.Liste ning to it _ me to relax and forget about my problems5.Five years
15、ago,he was finally given a(n)_ to record his song at a(n)_.Ever since,his success has shown the world that even _ people can become famous.6.Nowadays millions of musical performances are uploaded _ the Internet every day by different _ who may or may not be professional musicians or singers.awardpro
16、veseffortfell in loveenabledopportunitystudioordinaryontoindividualsordinary remind perform award effort individual fall in loveenable stage studio original prove onto opportunity Activity 6:Learn more about music by completing the sentences with the correct forms of the words and phrase.Then make a
17、 mind map about what music means to you.1.What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a member of a virtual choir?2.Does a virtual choir really bring people together?Why or why not?1.The advantages of being in a virtual choir are that it is very easy to get lots of people in different places
18、together quickly and cheaply.However,a disadvantage of not having everyone in the same place is that singers cannot react to each other in the same way as they can in person.2.Pros:(正方)People from every corner of the world can upload their videos onto the Internet,which is like a great stage where p
19、eople come together to sing.Different people sing the same song,share similar interests and values,which makes them feel like family.In the global community,people can exchange feelings and thoughts with each other like real life communication.Cons:(反方)A virtual choir cannot have people together on
20、stage where people can communicate in person.A virtual choir is unreal because it is just something made up.A virtual choir concert cant have real actor-audience interaction.Activity 7:Retell what you get from the text about virtual choir with the help of the following questions.1.What is a virtual
21、choir?2.Who created the virtual choir?3.How was the virtual choir created and developed?4.What is the influence of it?You have the opportunity to sing together with hundreds of other people from anywhere in a virtual choir all you need is a video camera and an Internet connection.Virtual choir membe
22、rs record themselves while performing alone on video.These videos are uploaded onto the Internet,and then they are put together into one video that you can see online a virtual choir created by Eric Whitacre.学习总结学习总结1.Do you want to take part in the virtual choir?How?2.How can you scan a text to get the important information?
