Урок з англійської мови для 8 класу на тему: "Music and its role in our life"

Lviv Comprehensive School 66

LEVEL PREINTERMEDIATE

Form 8^th

Teacher of English:                                                                                                                                                      

Sophiya Sheretko    

DATE:__________________

FORM:8^th

OBJECTIVES: -to teach pupils to extract specific information 

                                    from the text;                                                                                                                -to activate pupils’  speaking  skills;                                                                                -to use interactive forms of training;                                                                        -to practise pupils in listening comprehension;                                    

                               -to develop pupils’ quick reaction and ability to select   necessary words;                                                                                   

                               -to develop pupils’ social and cultural competency;                                                              -to develop pupils’ imagination.

EQUIPMENTS:   a tape with a piece of music; computers; a text book; a                                mike; a spider-gram; a quotation.

PROCEDURE OF THE LESSON:

I. Introduction

T:  Dear friends! Look at the quotation and guess the missing word.

   Where  there’s ……….                                                                                                                                      Can be no evil.

      (Cervantes)

Ps: Music.

T: Right you are. It is music. Today we shall have the last lesson on the topic “Music”. We shall speak about music and its role in our life.                                                           Please, write the topic of the lesson on the blackboard.

II. Warming up:

T:  First, answer my question: What is music? I want you to finish my sentence: Music is …                                                                                                              

           Take the mike and don’t forget that you have only   20 seconds to speak. Then you’ll have to pass the mike to another pupil. Do, please.

Ps:   1.  Music is an integral part of my life.                                                 2. Music is a stimulator for my brain.                                                                                                                3. Music is a relaxation for me.                                                                                                               

            4. Music is a language which speaks to everyone.     

            5. Music is a pleasure for me.         6. Music is like a cup of coffee that encourages me.                                                       

           7. Music is like a cool shower that freshens me.      8. Music is like a pain reliever when I go to the dentist.                                                                       

            9. Music is a break for my brain.        10. Music is an important part of my life.                                                                                                  11. Music is a good mood for me.                                                                                                                12. Music is a healing for me.                                                                                                                              13. Music is like sleeping pills for me.                                                                                                    14. Music is a fresh surge of energy. Etc.

III.  Pre-speaking:

T:  All right. Well done. Thank you. The world of music is rich and various. We know some kinds of music. What are they?   Let’s make up a spider-gram.

                          rap   rock and roll blues                                                                                             jazz                                                                            classical

prayerful                                  MUSIC                           punk

                 reggae                                                                                pop

          folk  heavy metal      rock

T:  Say where we usually listen to music?

Ps: in the concert halls                         in the circus    in the theatre                                                                                       at home                                                        in the cinema                                                                                    at school                                                        in the clubs                                                                                                  in the restaurants                                                  at the stadiums                                                                                  in the cafes                              

          on the radio       on TV   

          in the street

T:  So, everywhere. And now I propose you to listen to a piece of lovely music. Then you’ll give me some adjectives which we can use to describe this music and I want to know your associations with this music.

(Pupils are listening  to music) 

Ps:  soothing, gentle, beautiful, melodious, romantic, sad

T:  And what do you associate this music with?

Ps: 1. When I listen to this music I see a seashore at sunset and a black old man          who is playing saxophone.                                                                                                                               2. When I listen to this music I see a deserted island in the ocean and a lot      

               of sea-gulls are flying over it.                      3. Listening to this music I imagine a warm evening in the town at the sea.             

           4. This music helps me to feel better.       

           5. I want to have this music as background when I do my lessons.   6. Last summer when we had a rest in Yalta, my parents took me to                                               the restaurant in the evening and it seems to me I heard this music                                 there. Etc,

 T: O.K. And what main instrument did you hear in this piece of music?                

 Ps:  A saxophone.

 T: You are right. By the way, what kinds of instruments do you know?

Ps: Wind, percussion, string, keyboard

T: Name wind instruments, please.

Ps: Saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, French horn, bagpipes

T: Keyboard instruments?

Ps: Organ, piano, grand-piano, accordion, bayan.

T: What  string  instruments do you know?

Ps:  Guitar, violin, harp, cello, banjo, balalaika.

T:  And percussion instruments  at last?

Ps: Drums, xylophone.

IV. Discussion. Group work.

T:  I hope you realize that music influences our emotions, thoughts, feelings    and mood. We read the text  “ The Power of music”. What problem do psychologists arise in this text?

Ps: They arise the problem that music can affect us physically.

T:  Your home-task was to discuss this problem in groups. Group 1 will discuss this problem and group 2 will listen very attentively and then you will add on the text and from your own experience.                                         

Group I:  1. Music can affect us positively and negatively.                     2. Psychologists consider that all music can be divided into three types.                                  3. And each type has different effect on our body and mind.                                                4.So, these types are: low energy music;                                                                     

                high energy music;                                                             prayerful music.

     1. We can explain what low music means. It’s a sort of music that makes           you feel bad. For example, rock music can have negative effect  on us.

     .2. High energy music makes you feel better. It can normalize the heart                       rate. For example, Bach’s music has high energy.                                                                       

             .3. As for prayerful music, it is the most healing of all. Much of classical               music falls into this category.

T: Thank you. Group number 2, what can you add?

Group 2:  1. Music helps us feel relaxed and peaceful.       

                  2. Music encourages creativity and curiosity.             

                  3. Music promotes loving feelings.                      

                  4. Music helps to cure people.         

                  5. Music calls for violence.              

                  6. Music makes people feel hate instead of love.    

                  7. Music helps us to understand other people.         

                8. Music teaches us to love our Motherland and homeland.      

                9. Music teaches us to love nature.

                10.Music inspires  and entertains us.

T: If music calls for violence, what is it like?

Ps: Violent, aggressive, harsh.

T: So, music can be beautiful and harsh, gentle and aggressive, romantic and         violent . But can we imagine the world without music? What would it be like?

Ps: 1. It is difficult to imagine such a world. We got used to music.    2. The world without music would be dull, sad, boring, gloomy.

T: I fully agree with you. I am not a passionate lover of music but I can’t imagine even one day without music.

V. Pre-auding.

T: At the previous lesson you listened to the song which is called “ Tom ‘s Diner”. You had to find grammar mistakes in this song. Say what tenses  are used in this song?

Ps:  Present Indefinite, Past Indefinite, Future Indefinite, Present Continuous, Past Continuous, Present Perfect.

T: Write formulas of these tenses on the blackboard.

Ps:      Pr.Ind.    Past Ind.    Fut Ind.   

N/Pr + V1/ V                N/Pr + V2/ V ed  N/Pr + shall/will + V1

      es/s                                                                                                                                                                         

                Pr. Cont.   Past Cont.    Pr.Perf.

          N/Pr + be + V ing                  N/Pr + be = Ving           N/Pr + have/has = V3/Ved

                am/is/are                        was/were                                                                                                                                              

  T:  And now let’s listen to this song again.

VI. Auding

(Pupils are listening to the song)

  T: Some pupils will do a task on the computers. They will find the definitions to the 

      words from the song.

( Pupils are working on the computers.)

   T : Answer my questions.

1. What adjectives can we use to describe this song?
2. Where is the woman at the moment?
3. What is she waiting for?
4. Whom does she see at the diner?

5. Are they sweethearts?
6. What mood does the woman at the diner have?
7. What influences her mood?
8. What does she think about?

Ps.

1. Depressive, romantic, melancholic, sad.
2. The woman is at the diner at the moment.
3. She is waiting for a cup of coffee.
4. She sees a man at the counter and a woman who has come in.
5. They are sweethearts.
6. The woman has a bad mood.
7. A bad weather influences her mood.
8. She thinks about the rain and about her beloved man.

T: Thank you.

(The Pupils are ready to give definitions)

Ps: The diner – a restaurant in the shape of railroad car.

 The counter – a table at a restaurant over which food is served.

 To pour – to make liquid flow in a stream.

 To argue – to express strong disagreement.

 To pretend – to make false appearance of doing something.

 To hitch up – to pull up with a quick movement.

 To straighten – to get rid of the wrinkles on clothes.

 Stockings – a tight covering for the foot and leg.

 To kiss hellos – to greet somebody the way the French do.

 Funnies – cartoons, jokes.

 Reflection – production of an image by a mirror or a window.

 Cathedral – the principal church of a district.

T: Good of you.

VI. Summing up.

T: What conclusion can we make summing up our lesson?

Ps:

1. Music plays a great role in our life.
2. There are many kinds of music.
3. There are many different instruments.
4. Music influences us positively and negatively.

T: Thank you for the lesson. I wish you always to listen to the music which would have 

     positive effect on you.