Unit12-Reading

Welcome to class 10A6
Unit 12: Music
Reading
Before you read:
Work in pairs : Discuss and match each of the descriptions to a type of music
While you read: read the passage and then do the tasks that follow
There are two things that make humans different from all other animals. They are language and music. Music is clearly different from language. However, people can use it to communicate- especially their emotions. Like reading, writing, and speaking, music can express ideas, thoughts and feelings. It can express one’s anger, love, hate or friendship; it can also convey one’s hope and dreams.
Music is very much an integral part of our life. It is played during almost all important events and on special occasions and sets the tone for them. It adds joyfulness to atmosphere of a festival and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful. Music lulls babies to sleep at night and wake students up in the morning.
Above all, music entertains. It makes people happy and excited. It delights the senses. In fact, music as entertainment has always been a big business. It is a billion-dollar industry. It is difficult to imagine what our lives would be like without music.

New words:
Express [iks`pres] (v) : Biểu lộ, bày tỏ, phát biểu ý kiến..
Convey [k?n`vei] (v) : Truyền đạt
Funeral [`fju:n?r?l] (n) : Đám ma
Sense [ sens ] (n) : Giác quan
Joyfulness [`d??ifulnis] (n): Sự vui mừng, tràn ngập niềm vui
Task1. The words/ phrases in the box below all appear in the reading passage. Use them to complete the sentences.
If you know English, you can ___________ with people from the English-speaking world easily.
Every night, the mother tells her daughter a fairy tale to __________ her to sleep.
Nam’s success at school ___________ his parents.
He is an _______________ of the team, we can’t do without him.
The teacher criticized him with a ____________ him with a expression on his face.
Like a lot of men, he finds it hard to express his ___________ .
With a ___________ look on his face, he told us about his uncle’s death.
communicate
lull
delights
integral part
solemn
emotion
mournful
Task 2: Work in groups and play a small game to answer the questions
lucky star
Lucky star
comet
Falling star
neptune
jupiter
mars
venus
After you read: work in groups
Ask and answer the questions below:
1. How many roles of music are mentioned in the text?
2. In your opinion, which of the roles of music is the most important?
Music
Let the music heal your soul
Question 1: What are the two things that make humans different from other animals?
Answer: Language and music
Question 2 : Why is music a powerful means of communication?
Answer: It can express ideas, thoughts and feelings
Question 3 : How can music set the tone for events and special occasions?
Answer: It adds joyfulness to the atmosphere of a festival and makes a funeral more solemn and mourful.
Question 4 : How can music entertain?
Answer: It makes people happy and excited. It delights the senses
Question 5 : Why has music always been a big business?
Answer : It a billion-dollar industry.
Falling star

Lucky star !
Falling star
While you read: read the passage and then do the tasks that follow
There are two things that make humans different from all other animals. They are language and music. Music is clearly different from language. However, people can use it to communicate- especially their emotions. Like reading, writing, and speaking, music can express ideas, thoughts and feelings. It can express one’s anger, love, hate or friendship; it can also convey one’s hope and dreams.
Music is very much an integral part of our life. It is played during almost all important events and on special occasions and sets the tone for them. It adds joyfulness to atmosphere of a festival and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful. Music lulls babies to sleep at night and wake students up in the morning.
Above all, music entertains. It makes people happy and excited. It delights the senses. In fact, music as entertainment has always been a big business. It is a billion-dollar industry. It is difficult to imagine what our lives would be like without music.

communicate
emotions
mournful
solemn
lulls
delights
integral part