Teaching Plan for Unit 11 Lesson 42 American Country Music
by Pan Cai-ying 2004.4.6
一、Teaching Aims
- Read and understand the text----American Country Music
- Do exercises and practices according to the comprehension of the passage.
- Improve the students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and understanding.
二、Importance and Difficulties
1. Why country music is well thought of by most young people.
2. When I got to the theatre I found that they had sold all the tickets.
3. Understanding the text—American Country Music
三 Teaching focus
1 Inspire the students’ interest in English
2.Promote the students’ ability of self-study
四，Teaching Procedures
Step 1. Daily Dialogue
Step 2. Say something about American music.
Today we’re going to learn Lesson 42 American Country Music. Now I’d like to play some music for you. It’s the most famous song of John Denver “Country roads, take me home.”------- Do you like it? Can you tell me something about country music?
OK. As we know, country music comes from the country areas of the United States. In fact American music, including classical music and pop music, is the mixture of many countries’ music. In America, the founders of music were European music and African music. The only real American music was Indian music. Before the explorers and colonists came from European countries, Indian music took up North America.
I wonder how many kinds of music you know. (pop music, classical music, folk music, rock and roll, light music , Jazz)
. Now I’ll show you some pictures of American singers, or other countries’
Picture 1:
As we know, country music comes from country areas at this picture. Where is it? ( It’s a picture of countryside).
Picture 2.
Look at this picture. What can you see? (A train) This is a picture about a song “500 Miles”.
Picture 3.
You can see four men in this picture. They are four brothers, a singing group. They were singing the song “500 miles”.
Picture 4.
This is another group of country music.
Picture 5.
In this picture, we can see all of them are very happy. They are women singers. They won the prizes by singing country music.
Picture 6.
This is a beautiful woman, a famous country music singer.
Picture 7.
This picture is not clear. Do you know who he is ?
Picture 8.
Now look at another one. It’s very clear. Who is he?---John Denver.
So much for the pictures . Next time I’ll show you more picture
Step 3 Now let’s listen to the text, then answer “True or False” questions.
( ) 1.During the 1990s American country music has become more and more popular.
( ) 2. In the 1950s, many American songs were always full of anger.
(love and money)
( ) 3. In the 1960s, many young students like talking about love and money. ( anger with society)
( ) 4. Today, country music brings in between 200 and 400 thousand million dollars.
( ) 5. In “the good old days “ people thought well of each other.
( ) 6. Country music today has greatly changed.
( remain the same as before )
Step 4. Read the text by yourselves ,then read the questions on the screen and answer some easy questions then do Ex 2 on Page 108 .
1. Is American country music about modern life in your opinion?
2. Is it about money? What’s American country music about?
3. How popular is country music?
4. What’s American country music about?
5. Why did the first country singers like to sing to the guitar?
Then choose the best answers to the questions ,
( ) 1. Country music was born in __________?
A. the USA B. Britain C. Canada D. Australia
( ) 2. In “the good old days “ people thought well of each other, which means people __________each other.
A. were friendly to B. hated
C. were angry with D. were helped
( ) 3. Which of the following is not mentioned from Para.3 to Para .5?
A. The popularity of American country music
B. The development of equipment which is used in country music.
C. The subject of American country music
D. The reason why country music is so popular.
( ) 4. Political leaders were not well thought of and those songs often made fun of them. Here “them” refers to _________.
A. the students in America
B. the American country music
C. the American political leaders
D. the American songs
( ) 5. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. People love “ the good old days”.
B. The best things in life are what people love forever.
C. Country music remains unchanged now.
D. People will never forget the past.
Step 5.Discussion,
As a singer or a film star, what kind of merits(优点，长处) should they have?
Step 6.Homework.
1. Read the text after class
2. Finish the Wb Exx
3. Preview the Attributive Clause (2)
