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BOOK 2 Unit 5 Music
Period 2 Reading and Thinking
The virtual choir
Part I Analysis of the teaching material
This section focuses on "learning about experiencing music Online". This virtual choir is a new form of music performance. Members from all over the world don't need to love to come to a place. Instead, they use the new technology to model the various parts and wonderful virtual harmony group of music in the family.
Students need to understand the main meaning of each paragraph， and they need master some detailed information, can introduce Eric Whitacre through the timeline.
Part II Analysis of the students
Students have mastered some reading skills. But most of them are still in the period of junior high school. They can not read some complex sentences.
Part III Learning aims
At the end of the class, students will be able to
Learn some new words and expressions.
Figure out the main structure of the passage by first reading.
Find more details through the careful reading.
Realise the significance(意义）of the virtual choir .
Part IV key points and difficulties
1. Guide students to pay attention to reading strategies, such as prediction, self-questioning and scanning.
2. Help students sort out the main meaning of each paragraph and understand the narrative characteristics of "timeline” in illustrative style.
3. Lead students to understand the changes that have been caused by the Internet.
Part V Teaching procedure
Lead in:
Ask students several questions to lead the topic.
Do you like music Do you like singing with your friends
During the pademic（全国性疫情）, we must stay at home and it is impossible to sing face to face. Thus, can we sing together in another way
Lead students watch a short video about virtual choir.
Part VI Prereading - Analyse the title
What is a virtual choir
A. The virtual choir was not a famous one.
B. The virtual choir was formed in a different way not a real choir.
C. The virtual choir did not play their own music.
D. The virtual choir was not supported by its fans.
Part VII Whilereading- First reading
Step 1: Predict the main idea of the passage
Look at the title and the pictures, and then predict what the passage will be about.
Q: What will be talked about
About the introduction of the Virtual Choir
Step2: Fast reading tasks
Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1: What is a virtual choir
Paragraph 2: Eric Whitacre—the creator of the virtual choir
Paragraph 3: Eric’s first virtual choir
Paragraph 4: the importance of the virtual choir
Step 3: Read the passage quickly to solve the following questions.
1. Who is the man coming up with the idea for a virtual choir and where did he study musical composition
He is called Eric who studies at Juilliard School.
2. What is the name of his song
What if
Step 4: Read the text quickly and finish the timeline.
2 January 19 ____ Eric Whitacre was born.
19 ____ Whitacre attended the University of Nevada，
1995Las Vegas.
19 ____ 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 more than ________________ views on the Internet.
____ July 2014 Whitacre formed the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF， ________ young people from ________ countries sang “what If”.
70；88；97；185；12；millions of；23；2,292；80
Step 5　Make a mindmap of their own
Step 6　Discussion
Does a virtual choir really bring people together Why or why not
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Part VIII Analysis of the students
1. Make a video of a virtual choir in groups.
2. Do the exercises I, II. V in page 127. 128

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