初中英语外研版 (新标准)七年级下册Unit 2 Vienna is the centre of European classical music.教学设计

Module 12  Western music

布置）学生课前准备：

1. 预习词汇：noisy, rock, sound, violin, through, both, voice, drum, lively, modern, pop (=popular), Western, hmm, by, opera, believe, musician, centre (=center), century, European, composer, elder, waltz, poor, perfect, piece, classical, another, dance music和sad。

2. Class report

教学课题: Module 12 Western music

学习目标 

1. 语言知识目标：掌握下列单词: noisy, rock, sound, violin, through, both, voice, drum, lively, modern, pop (=popular), Western, hmm, by, opera, believe, musician, centre (=center), century, European, composer, elder, waltz, poor, perfect, piece, classical, another, dance music和sad。

2. 语言技能目标：

1）能听懂谈论音乐的简单对话，能判断描述的事实。

2）能用感叹句表达自己的感受。

3）能够读懂简单的描写音乐的短文，掌握短文通篇大意，并学习使用上下文猜测词义的学习方法。

4）能用感叹句表达自己感受。

3. 情感目标：通过对西方音乐的了解，培养热爱生活、热爱音乐、积极乐观的精神。

教材分析

外研版7年级英语下册Module 12  Western music   units 1~3，本模块以西方音乐为题材，要求学生通过对西方音乐的了解，学习和掌握感叹句。

本模块的主要语法是what句式的感叹句，教学重点是通过对西方音乐的描述，重点学习本模块中出现的重点词汇、短语、固定搭配和句型。

课前准备一些西方音乐的图片和资料，让学生在warming-up时讨论和观看。围绕西方音乐这一话题展开听说读写的全面训练，使学生熟悉what句式的感叹句并会使用。

教学方法

     以说为主要教学方式，以讨论为主要方法，通过同桌讨论和小组以及全班讨论，让每个学生充分练习口语和说的能力，并将听说读写有机地贯穿一体。设立一些语言环境，结合自己或他人的旅游经历以及旅游景点，最后一起学习重难点，为突破重难点做一些课堂和课后的练习。

教学过程

Unit 2  Vienna is the centre of European classical music.

 Step1：Warming-up and Lead in

To give some pictures and videos about Strauss Waltz  to students. Let them watch and then talk about Western music.

 Step2：Work in pairs. Look at the pictures of Activity 1 and describe it. Use the words from the box to help my students. 

concert   musician   piano   violin

Step3：Read the passage of Activity 2 and check (√) the true sentences.

1. Many musicians came to study and work in Vienna.

2. Strauss the younger played the piano, the violin and the drums at the age of six.
3. Mozart’s family took him around Europe.

4. The father, Johann Strauss, died in 1791.
5. Mozart wrote The Blue Danube.

Keys:  1. √  2. ×  3. √  4. × 5. ×

Step4：Answer the following questions.

1. Where is Vienna?

2. What music did Johann Strauss the elder write?

3. How many waltzes did Johann Strauss the younger write?

4. When was Mozart born?

5. How old was Mozart when he died?

Keys:

1.  It is in the centre of Europe.

2.  He wrote music for traditional dances, called the waltz.

3.  He wrote over 150 waltzes.

4.  He was born in 1756.

5.   He was 35.

Step5：Complete the passage of Activity 4 with the correct form of the words from the box.

another   elder   European   perfect  poor  popular

Both Strauss the (1) ______ and Strauss the younger wrote some very (2) _______ music. (3) _______ successful composer from Vienna was Mozart, but he became very (4) ______ and died at the age of thirty-five. Many people think Mozart’s music is (5) _______. All three were great (6) _________ musicians.

Keys: 1. elder  2. popular  3. Another  4. poor   5. perfect  6. European

Step6：Use the note to write a passage about the Chinese composer Xian Xinghai.

¤ Xian Xinghai

¤ famous for the song The Yellow River

¤ wrote it in 1939 in only six days

¤ one of the great composers of classical   

   and traditional music

¤ born in Macao, China, 1905

¤ died young, 1945

¤ called the “People’s Musician”

¤ used traditional Chinese music

¤ studied in Paris

¤ songs are still popular today

They can write like this,

Xian Xinghai is one of the great composers of classical and traditional music. He was born in ...

Step7： Study the new words and expressions of Unit 2 Module 12.

musician, centre (=center), European, composer, century, elder, waltz, poor, perfect, piece, classical, another, dance music

Step8：Explain and study the important and difficult points of Unit 2.

1. musician~ music         

2. European~ Europe

3. poor ~ rich

e.g.: This girl is poor, she’s not rich at all.

4. the usage of word “piece “.

5. the usage of expression “on the river... “.

e.g.: His hometown is a small city on the Changjiang River.

6. the usage of word “century “.

7. the usage of expression “not only...but also... “.

8. the usage of word “like “.

e.g.: He moves and talks just like his father.

I’d love to be able to sing like Sarah Brightman.

Step9：Homework

 Review and recite the important points of Unit 2.