Procedure

I.Introduction

Greeting

T. Good morning. How are you today?

II. Warming-up

T. Today we are going to talk about music, its genres and about the role it plays in our life. Read the quotation and share your ideas about it. Do you agree with a famous composer? Why? Do you know other quotations or sayings about music?

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Discussion

T. Do you like music? Who's your favourite singer? What is your favourite group?

Brainstorming

T. What styles of music do you know? What genre is your favourite? What musical instruments do you know?

Expressing feelings

T. How often do you listen to music? How does it make you feel? Listen to music extracts. Which picture does each one match? How does each extract make you feel: happy, sad, excited, calm, depressed, thriller? What images come to mind?

III. Main part of the lesson

Activities with video

Window on Britain, pop music.

Pre-activity

What British singers and bands do you know? What are your favourite British songs?

Vocabulary practice

Students put the verbs into correct columns.

1. Rock and roll, 10) punk,

2. Saxophone, 11) lead guitar,

3. Drums, 12) singer,

4. Guitarist 13) pop,

5. Rock 14) trumpet,

6. Musician, 15) pop star,

7. Piano, 16) heavy metal,

8. Blues, 17) bass guitar,

9. Producer 18) songwriter.

Instruments	People	Types of music

While-activity

1. Watch the sequence and tick the true sentences you hear.

1. Pop music is a big business.

2. Most of the world's popular musicians write and sing songs in English.

3. Rock and roll first became popular in the 1960s.

4. The rock and roll revolution happened in Liverpool.

5. At the beginning of the 1960s there were hundreds of bands in Liverpool.

2. Watch the sequence and cross out the incorrect answer in the sentences below.

1. The Beatles / The Rolling Stones changed pop music forever.

2. The Beatles / The Rolling Stones are still playing today.

3. Watch again and complete the sentences.

1. The Beatles were together for…years.

2. They made … number one hit singles.

3. They made … albums.

4. They wrote over … songs.

5. There are more than … reordered versions of Yesterday.

Post-activity

Students answer the question:

1. How many pop stars did you see?

2. What famous bands did you see?

3. What song did you like the best?

4. Who's the original among them?

Speaking

Pair work

Students fill in the dialogue with missing words (quite, rather, very, too) and act in out.

P1. Great concert, isn't it?

P2. Not really - the music's much... loud!

P1.What do you think of this band?

P2. They're ... good, but I've heart lots better.

P1. What a boring song this is!

P2. Well, I suppose it is ...

monotonous, but I still like it.

P1. Wow-what a brilliant guitar solo!

P2.Yes, he's a ... talented musician, isn't he?

P1.So, are you going to the rock concert on Saturday?

P2. No - the tickets are ... expensive for me.

Reading

T. So, do you agree that music we listen to depends on our mood? In different stages of our life we prefer to listen to different type of music, don't we? But how does music work? What makes it so incredible? Let us know from the text.

Pre - reading

Students listen and number the musical instruments in the order they hear them (piano, trumpet, violin, flute, saxophone, banjo, guitar, drums).

Pupils read the title and guess what the text is about. Them read and chexk their answers.

While-reading

Pupils read the text and explain words in bold.

THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF MUSIC

Everyone loves music, but have you ever thought about what makes a piece of music? There are four main elements in any piece of music: melody, harmony, rhythm and dynamics. Let's take a closer look at these elements.

Melody: This is the tune which we hear when we listen yo a piece if music. The melody is made up of single tones, or pitchers, played one after the other. When we talk about the tone or pitch of a sound, we mean how high or low it is.

Harmony: This is how different notes and chords sound when they are played at the same time.

Rhythm: This means <musical time>. Rhythm helps to organize music by dividing in into small sections between each strong beat. Strong beats occur in patterns, such as every two, three or four beats. We can play music at different speeds, too. We call the speed of music the tempo.

Dynamics. These tell the musicians how to play a piece of music. They show when the music should be quiet and when it should be loud. When a composer writes a piece of music, he thinks about these four elements and puts them all together to make what we know simply as a <song>.

Post-reading

Students ask each other comprehension questions.

1. What is melody?

2.What is rhythm?

3.What is harmony?

4.What is dynamics?

Writing

Students discuss in groups and write a short pagraph about what makes a good music.