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音乐听我的
The Virtual
Choir
目录
contents
1
Learning objectives
2
Pre-reading
3
While-reading
4
Post-reading
1
Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
“get the main idea and details of the passage”
“practice your reading skills, such as skimming, scanning and predicting”
“master some key and grammatical expressions”
“analyze the strcuture and important sentences”
2
Pre-reading
Traditional Choir
Can somebody who has choir experience talk about your feelings in choir
The Virtual Choir
What is
virtual: not real in the real life or on the Internet
choir: a singing group
A video about virtual choir
Predict
What are you most curious about the virtual choir that you expect to be involved in the passage
What How Why Where Who
3
While-reading
Skim to get the main idea
the paragraph 1:
the paragraph 2:
the paragraph 3:
the paragraph 4:
What is a virtual choir
Who created virtual choir
How was it created
Why was it created / How does it influence people
Scan to circle the information in the text
the man who came up with the idea for a virtual choir
1
2
the place where he studied musical composition
3
the name of his song
Eric Whitacre
The University of Nevada
What If
Type of the essay
A. Narration
B. Exposition
C. Argumentation
What
1. What’s the virtual choir in your words
2. What are the differences between the virtual choir and the traditional choir
3. What caused Eric Whitcare to fall in love with classical music
4. What gave him the inspiration to make his first virtual choir
The differences between the virtual choir and the traditional choir
What caused Eric Whitcare to fall in love with classical music
Virtual Choir Traditional Choir
Form Video Live
Place On the Internet On the stage
/in the studio
Identity of singers Ordinary people Professional singers
He fell in love with classical music when he was moved by Mozart's music at university for the first time.
What gave him the inspiration to make his first virtual choir
He was inspired to create the virtual choir by a video in which a girl sings one of his works.
Who
Who first got the idea of creating a virtual choir And complete this timeline.
2 January 19____ Eric Whitacre was born.
19____-1995 Whitacre attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1997 Whitacre got a master's degree from the Juilliard School in New York.
2009 Whitacre first got the idea for the virtual choir. His first virtual choir used________singers from_________different countries; received _____________views on the Internet.
___July 2014 Whitacre formed the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF. ___________ youngpeople from_________ countries sang "What If".
Eric Whitacre
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How
How does the virtual choir influence people
1. help connect ordinary people together;
2. help people forget problems;
3. a wonderful way for people around the world to sing with one voice and thus make the world a better place.
4
Post-reading
Language points
1.have the opportunity/chance to do sth.
有机会做某事
2.ordinary people 普通人
4.enable/cause sb to do sth. 使某人做某事
5.it has proved to be 由此可证
6.award-winning 获奖的
7.fall in love with 爱上
8.on stage 在舞台上
Complete the gap filling at the page 53
Discuss
What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a member of a virtual choir
Does a virtual choir really bring people together Why or why not
Fill in the blanks
Eric Whitacre was born in the USA ___________ on January 2,1970.when he studied music at the University of Nevada in 1988，he fell in love _________ Mozart’s classical music. __________ (move)by his music，he said that it was like seeing color for the first time. After __________ (graduate)from university in 1995，he received his master’s degree in 1997. Over the next 10 years，Whitacre’s __________ (origin) compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers, __________ led to the creation of the virtual choir.
When he received a video of a girl who was singing one of his __________(work)in 2009，he asked his fans __________ (make)videos，which he then joined together into one performance. Since then，the virtual choir_______________ (become)a worldwide phenomenon. It has proved to be __________ positive influence on the lives of many people.
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graduating/graduation
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