TASK  The Ss are to survey the favourite music and musician

　　Teaching Objectives：

　　1. The Ss can use the following words:

　　Moonlight, sonata, poor, afford, knock, dim, blind, shine, brightly, through, silently

　　2. The Ss can use the following expressions:

　　to one’s surprise, lose oneself in, hear sb. do/doing, afford to do, for fun, knock at, pardon me.

　　Difficult points

　　Using reflexive pronouns

　　Using the compound sentence.

　　Properties: Tape-recorder, Overhead projector, some pieces of paper, some pictures，动画，视频

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　Step One  Warming up

　　1. Play a tape or CD of some music before the bell rings.

　　2. Greetings

　　3. Chatting

　　The teacher is chatting with the Ss to revise the words “music, rock, piano, violin, pop” etc. and the expressions “Did you learn by yourself? Could you ….”

　　T: Did you hear the music just now?

　　S: Yes, I did.

　　T: Do you enjoy listening to music?

　　S: Yes, we do.

　　T: What music do you like better, piano or violin?

　　S: Piano. (or violin)

　　T: Can you play the piano?

　　S1: No, I can’t.

　　S2: Yes, I can.

　　T: Could you play it three years ago?

　　S: Yes. (No)

　　T: When did you begin to learn it?

　　S: I began to learn …

　　T: Did you learn it by yourself?

　　S: No.

　　T: Who taught you?

　　S: … did.

　　Step Two  Language input

　　Presentation

　　I was not so lucky, happy as you. When I was at your age, I wanted to learn playing the piano, but the piano was so dear and my family was poor(not rich)that my parents couldn’t afford to buy one for me. Can your parents afford to buy you a piano

　　Look at this CD.I couldn’t afford to buy one ten years ago, I think.

　　T: Can you play the piece of music that we heard just now?

　　S: Yes (No)

　　T: What’s the name of the music?

　　S: It’s …

　　T: Who composed it?

　　S: Beethoven did.

　　T: Who is Beethoven?

　　S: He is a musician and composer.

　　T: Which country was Beethoven from?

　　S: He was from Germany.

　　T: When was he born and when did he die?

　　S: He was born in 1770 and died in 1827.

　　Have the Ss read the notes on Sb page 140 to know more about Beethoven.

　　T: Can you name some of his music?

　　S: “No.5 Symphony”

　　S: “No.3 Symphony”….

　　T: What piece of Beethoven’s music do you like best?

　　S1: I like ….

　　S2: I like…

　　T: They like …, But I like The Moonlight Sonata best I think it is very beautiful. Would you like to listen to it? Please listen to the tape silently. You’d better close your eyes and feel the music.

　　Step Three  Pre-reading

　　Play the tape (The moonlight sonata)

　　Oh, you listened to it silently and to my surprise, all of you lost yourselves in the music.

　　T: You enjoyed the Moonlight Sonata very much, didn’t you?

　　S: Yes, we did.

　　T: Why did Beethoven compose the music? Actually it was written for his love of Countess Giulietta who refused to marry him. Here is something about the piece of music.

　　让学生谈谈自己对贝多芬的了解，在小学语文中已学过相关的文章，可以让学生先用汉语讲讲这个故事。让学生说说他们都知道贝多芬的哪些作品。最后根据时间可让学生谈谈他们对音乐的喜爱。

　　Step Four  Reading

　　1 T: Tell me something about the girl in the story after you read it.

　　2 Have the Ss read the story silently and retell.

　　3 Read the story again and try to know more information.

　　4 Answer the following questions

　　1) Why did Beethoven stop outside a little house when he was walking in a street one evening?

　　2) Did the girl find it easy to play Beethoven’s Sonata in F?

　　3) What did the girl wish to do?

　　4) Did the girl really believe her dream would come true?

　　5) What did Beethoven do when he heard their talk?

　　6) What surprised Beethoven when he saw the girl?

　　7) How did the girl learn to play this music?

　　8) Did the girl and the young man like the music played by Beethoven?

　　9) How do you know that?

　　10) What did Beethoven call that new piece of music? Do you know why?

　　5.Play the tape and have the Ss listen and repeat.（呈现动画：The moonlight sonata，让学生欣赏整个故事的发生过程）

　　6.Teach the new vocabulary: poor knock at pardon shine-shone bright-brightly and through

　　7.Explain the phrase: afford to do, knock at, to one’s surprise, lost oneself in.（呈现视频关于语言点的讲解）

　　8.Ask the Ss to read the story. (several groups)

　　Step Five  Practice

　　1.Ask the Ss to say something about Beethoven in the story.

　　2.Get the Ss to retell the story with the help of some key words showing on the screen.

　　Step Six  Consolidation

　　1. Ask and answer

　　T: Do you know any other composers or musicians?

　　S: Yes. They’re…

　　2. Show the following and ask the Ss to match these three columns.

　　    Mozart           　   film star

　　Wangfei                  musician

　　 Gongli             composer

　　  Nier             　　  singer

　　3. Play some CDs and ask the following questions

　　1) “The Rain of Meteor”   

　　a. Who sang the song?  b. Do you like this song?

　　2) “The National Anthem” 

　　a. What’s the name of the song? b. Who composed it?

　　3) “The Butterfly”       

　　a. Who played it?　b. What’s the main instrument in the music?

　　4) “The Fate Symphony”  

　　a. Is it a sonata?　　b. Who composed it?

　　Step Seven  Make a survey

　　Ask the Ss to fill in the blanks

FAVOURITE
What’s your favourite……?	Who’s your favourite……?
Pop music:_____________ Classical music:_________ song:_________________	singer:________________ composer:_____________ musician:______________

　　2) Group work  Ask the Ss to read their lists to each other in the group.

　　3) Class activity  Each group should choose one student to report their information to the whole class. They can use the following expressions:

　　Our favourite ….is….

　　We all like…………and I like ….best and …… likes …..best.……and ……like …very much, but …and ……like a lot

　　Step Eight Exercises in class

　　根据句意填空。

　　1. The candle light in the small room wasn’t bright, it was _________.

　　2. Don’t take it seriously, I just said it ________ _________.

　　3. The girl can’t see at all. She is_________.

　　4. The girl listened to the woman next door play the piano and learned all by ________(part of body). She is very clever.

　　5. He’s too poor to _________ a big house. So he must work hard to earn much money.

　　Keys: l.dim　2.for fun　3.blind　4.ear　5.afford

　　Step Nine Homework

　　1. Finish off the workbook exercises on page 98.

　　2. Retell the story.

　　3. Collect the English names of Beethoven’s music.

　　Blackboard design

Lesson 82 The Moonlight Sonata Beethoven              poor                　 bright-brightly Composer               afford to do           shine-shone musician               silent-silently        through to one’s surprise      lose oneself in        hear sb. do/ doing…