Unit 12. Music

Warm up: guessing people
Are they famous ?
Who are they ?
What do you know about them ?
Unit 12: MUSIC
A: Reading
I. BEFORE YOU READ
Discuss and match each of the descriptions to a type of music

What other types of music do you know more?
* Country music: popular music, based on traditional music of rural sound and the cowboy music of the West of the USA, whose songs express strong personal emotions
* Hip – hop: A style of popular music of US Black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing
Vocabulary :
Express /iks`pres/(V): state thoughts or feelings in words, show meaning by gesture, behavior….
Convey/kən`vei/ (v):express something
Funeral/`fju:nərəl/ (n): ceremony for someone who has died…..
Solemn/`sɔləm/ (adj): humorless, formal………….....
…....
Sight, hearing,touch,taste, smell are the five traditional senses
Sense/sens/ (n):…….
biểu lộ, thể hiện
đám ma
trang trọng, trang nghiêm
giác quan
While you read
Task1: use the words/ phrases given in the box below 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
4. He is an __________of the team,we can’t do without him
5. The teacher criticized 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
communicate
lull
delights
integral part
solemn
emotion
mournful
Task2: answer the questions
1. what are the two things that make humans different from other animals?
- Language and music
2. why is music a powerful means of communication?
- Because it can express ideas, thoughts and feelings
3. How can music set the tone for events and special occasions?
- It adds joyfulness to the atmosphere of a festival and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful
4. How can music entertain ?
- It makes people happy and excited.it delights the senses
5 why has music always been a big business?
- It is a billion-dollar industry
After you read
Discuss and anwer two questions:
1. How many roles of music are mentioned in the text ?
Four roles: To communicate
To set the tone for events and special occasions
To entertain
To be a big business
2. In your opinion, which of the roles of music is the most important?