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人教社2019年版高中英语新教材必修Book 2
Unit 5 Music
单元语篇教学设计
Period 2
Teaching and learning contents: Reading and thinking—Reading comprehension
Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives:
By the end of this period, the students will have been able to:
1) Know about reading strategy of scanning and use the strategy to find important information;
2) Read, comprehend and know about the virtual choir and experiencing music online;
3) Develop their culture awareness about music and the virtual choir;
4) Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of virtual choir to improve their thinking quality.
Teaching and learning important points:
1) Reading comprehension of the text and using reading strategy of scanning;
2) Knowing more the virtual choir, developing culture awareness about music and improve thinking quality.
Teaching and learning difficult points:
1) Reading comprehension of the text and using reading strategy of scanning;
2) Knowing more the virtual choir, developing culture awareness about music and improve thinking quality.
Teaching and learning procedure:
Step 1 Leading-in
Activity 1 Leading-in
1. Lead in the reading topic by watching a short video about robotic musicians playing the traditional Chinese musical instruments. (Technologies about music: robotic musicians, electronic music, virtual choir, AI music composition and performance, and so on.)
2. Introduce the teaching objectives of this period.
Step 2 Pre-reading
Activity 2 Discussion and making predictions
1. Discuss the question in groups and share answers.
How can computers and the Internet help us experience music differently
Suggested answer: Computers and the Internet can help us experience a wide range of musical genres. The Internet gives us access to millions of songs from many different genres, so we can find exactly what we puter technology today can also help us create the sound of an orchestra on our home computer! They can also help us change music to something new.
2. Watching a short video to know about virtual choir and talk about how it is different from the reality choir (Virtual Choir is a global phenomenon, creating an online choir that brings together singers from all over the world.)
3. Look at the title and picture and predict the main content of the text.
4. Go through or match the new words with their definition to know their meaning.
Step 3 While-reading
Activity 3 Reading comprehension
1. Introduce the reading strategy of scanning.
Scanning is reading a text quickly to find specific information, such as names or figures. Run over the whole text and focus on the information. It is important to emphasize that not every word has to be read to get the information. Limit your time looking at the text, only focus on looking for the target information.
2. Scan and circle the information in the text.
1) The man who came up with the idea for a virtual choir.
Para. 2 Line 1: Eric Whitacre. →creator
2) The place where he studied musical composition.
Para. 2 Line 5: University of Nevada. →learn composition
3) The name of his song.
Para. 3 Line 9: “What If”.→ big choir sang it
3. Read the text to get the main idea of the text and each paragraph and answer the two questions.
Main idea of the text: The passage is mainly about the idea of virtual choir and the virtual choir organized by Eric Whitacre.
Main idea of each paragraph: (Get the students to summarise the main idea or match the main idea.)
Paragraph 1: The introduction to the virtual choir—a wonderful way to sing with one voice. (What)
Paragraph 2: The brief introduction of the creator of the virtual choir, Eric Whitacre. (Who)
Paragraph 2: The creation and development of the virtual choir. (How)
Paragraph 4: The value of the virtual choir. (Why)
The questions and answers:
1) How is a virtual choir different from other choirs Who can take part in it
A virtual choir is different from other choirs because you don’t need to be together and you don’t need a studio. This means anyone can take part anywhere.
The differences between VC and RC in detail
Virtual choir Reality choir
Form video live
Place Internet (home/anywhere stage of music hall
Identity of singers ordinary people usually professional musicians
Number of singers not limited (sometimes can be very large ) limited to the required programme
Influence on singers many people as singers(becoming part of the global community) only those who have the competence or opportunity to give performance
2) What caused Eric Whitacre to fall in love with classical music What gave him the inspiration to make his first virtual choir
He fell in love with classical music when he was moved by Mozart’s music at university for the first time. He was inspired to create the virtual choir by a video in which a girl sings one of his works.
2. Scan the text to find the numbers and dates to fill in the time line in Exercise 4 and get more detailed information to complete the reading comprehension exercises in RB.
1970 is the year he was born.
From 1988 to 1995, he spent seven years studying music at the University of Nevada, where he fell in love with Mozart’s music.
In 1977, he earned a master’s degree in musical composition from the Juiliard School in New York.
In 2009, he received a video of a girl, which inspired him to ask his fans to make videos to put together into one performance.
2014 is the year when he created the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF with 2,292 young people singing together from 80 countries.
Step 4 Post-reading
Activity 4 Text reconstruction
1. Guide the students to analyse the structure and organization of the text.
Virtual choir
What Anyone can take part in it. Record through video Upload onto the Internet Put together into one video online Who Eric Whitacre personal information learning experience How learn composition inspired by a girl Influence a worldwide phenomenon a wonderful way to sing make the world a better place
2. Guide the students to retell the text according to the information above to reconstruct the text.
Step 5 Summary and evaluation
Activity 5 Summary
1. (The teacher) Guide the students to summarize the main content of the text with the help of the text organization.
2. Question time. Students raise their questions and the teacher answers the questions and gives explanations.
Activity 6 Self-evaluation
Guide the students to reflect on their learning of this period by considering the following aspects.
1. How is your reading comprehension of the text content (Good/Fairly good/Moderate/Just so so/Poor)
2. How is your understanding of the virtual choir (Good/Fairly good/Moderate/Just so so/Poor)
3. How is your learning effect (Good/Fairly good/Moderate/Just so so/Poor)
4. What will you do to improve your learning
Homework：
1. Read the text to comprehend it better and underline the words, chunks and sentences that you feel confused about.
2. Preview the new language items and complete the rest reading comprehension exercises in reference book.

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