
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Brain-storming
1. Discuss with your deskmate:
Do you like music? Why?
Who is your favorite singer or band?
How does music make you feel?
2. Can you name any music style?
Warming Up
Listen to different kinds of music and number the pictures.
Pre – Reading
Look at these pictures, can you tell the names of these bands or singers?
While Reading
1. Fast reading
A. Skimming.
Task 1.Answer the questions
1) How many bands are mentioned in the passage? What are their names?
2) Which band is “The Band That Wasn’t”?
Task 2.Match main ideas with paragraphs
Para 1: How the Monkees formed the band?
Para 2: Dreaming of being famous.
Para 3: How the Monkees became popular and developed as a real band?
Para 4: The common way that bands form.
B. Scanning.
Task 1. Join the correct parts together.
Task 2. True or false questions
(1) The band began as a TV show.
(2) The TV organizers had looked for five musicians who were lovely and who could make good music.
(3) Each week the group that was called“The Monkees” would play a song or two written by themselves.
(4) The band broke up in 1970, but reunited in the mid-1980s.
(5) In 1999, they produced a new record to celebrate their time as band.
2. Detailed-reading
Task 1. How do people form a band ? (Para.2)
| Step 1 | to practise music __________ |
| Step 2 | to play ____________________ |
| Step 3 | to give performances in ______________ |
| Step 4 | to make records in _________ |
Post Reading
Summary
If we are ______ ______ ourselves,most of us have ______ ______ being famous sometimes in our lives. Most musicians often meet and ______ a band. Sometimes they play in the street to ______ so that they can earn some money and this also gives them a ______ to realize their dreams. There was once a band started in a different way. The musicians of whom the band was formed ______ ______ ______ each other as well as played music,whose music and jokes were loosely ______ ______ “The Beatles”.Their exciting performances were copied by other groups.“The Monkees” played their own ______ and wrote their own music. Though it ______ ______ in 1970,it reunited in the mid-1980s and it is still popular today.
Discussion
What do you think of “The Monkees”?
Discuss in pairs using the adjectives that you think best describe them. Give reasons for your choices.
Writing
When it comes to music or forming a band, what do you what to say?
Write a few sentences and share with us.
