UNIT 12: MUSIC
Lesson: Reading
What is the title of this song?


Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Rock
There you’ll be – Faith Hill
Country
Baby once more time – Britney Spears
Pop
Don’t know why – Norah Jones
Jazz

Don’t matter – Akon
Hip hop
Love story – Bi Rain
R & B

Ly ngua o – Dan ca Nam Bo
Pre-reading:
Task 1: Look at the 3 pictures in your books and answer these questions:
“What types of music are they playing?”
“Which band is playing in picture 2?”
Picture1: Folk music
Picture 2: Rock’n Roll – The Beatles
Picture 3: Classical music

Task 2: Work in pairs: Matching each of the descriptions to a type of music
While-reading:
Listen to the CD.
Read the passage silently.
Task 3: Vocabulary:
1. emotion = feeling (n)
2. communicate (v) = exchange information, news, ideas, ect. with sb
3. integral (a) = being an essential part of sth.
4. funeral (n) = a ceremony for burying a dead person

5. solemn (a) = serious
6. mournful (a) = very sad
7. lull so to sleep (v)
8. delight (v) = to give sb a lot of pleasure and enjoyment.
Task 4: Gap-filling: use the words/phrases in the box to complete the sentences:
1. If you know English, you can with people from the English-speaking world easily.
2. Every night, the mother tells her daughter a fairy tale to her to sleep.
3. Nam’s success at school his parents.
communicate
lull
delights
4. He is an of the team, we can’t do without him.
5. The teacher criticised him with a expression on his face.
6. Like a lot of men, he finds it hard to express his .
7. With a look on his face, he told us about his uncle’s death.

integral part
solemn
emotion
mournful
Task 5: Answer the questions:
1. They are language and music.
2. Because it can express ideas, thoughts and feelings.
3. It adds joyfulness to the atmosphere of a festival and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful.
4. It makes people happy and excited. It delights the senses.
5. Because it’s a billion-dollar industry.
Post reading:
Task 6: Ask and answer the questions:
1. 4 roles of music:
- Music can express ideas, thoughts and feelings.
- It adds joyfulness to the atmosphere of a festival and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful.
- Music lulls babies to sleep at night and wakes students up in the morning.
- It makes people happy and excited. It delights the senses.
2. The most important role of music
Task 7: Discuss in groups the questions:
“ How would your life be if there weren’t music? Why?”
Homework:
Write a short paragraph of 50 words about the question:
“What kind of music do you like? Why?”
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