ORAL ENGLISH TV, Reading, Music and Musicians Professor: Ms. K. Casimir Week6, Lesson 5 and 6 3/27/14

Objectives: During this session, students should be able to discuss their favorite music types, reading and sharing personal views on music, expressing preferences (personal taste and style of music), listening to people’s opinion about music, vocabulary on music, comparing and contrasting view on music, reading on the Beatles and Rolling Stones, comparing and contrasting ideas. Grammar focus: Double comparatives. Drills: Linking, Stress and intonation. Game: vocabulary Game and “What music is best”

Rolling stones:

Page 36 Exercise A: Read these blog posts about TV programs. What’s on? Page 36 Exercise A: Read these blog posts about TV programs. Which program would you like the most to watch / the least? Why?

Discussion:Television programs What are your favorite TV programs? What do you like about them? Answer in full sentences!

Television and reading If you had a choice between reading and television for entertainment, which one will you pick and why?

What role does reading plan in your life? Reading today Read the opinion listed about reading on page 40 (starting point), do you agree or disagree with these comments? What role does reading plan in your life?

What is your favorite TV program or books and why? Group discussion What is your favorite TV program or books and why?

Music and Musicians Music by Beatles/Rolling Stone

Soap opera clip Sample of soap opera

Sample sitcom

Fiddler on the roof: Musical! If I were a rich man!”

Class: What talent do you have in music? DO you play any instrument? Five best songs Pair works: What are the five best songs from the past three years? Make a list of songs you agree on. Class: What talent do you have in music? DO you play any instrument?

Tongue Twister: B and BL A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled blood. This black bug bled blue-black blood while the other black bug bled blue.

What is your favorite music/musician? Why?

Mu favorite singer is: Carrie Underwood

Tongue twister: S Sh and middle S Sister Susie went to sea To see the sea, you see. The sea she saw was a saucy sea, Since she sells sea shells by the sea shores A sort of saucy sea saw she.

Tongue twister: S Sh and middle S Sister Suzy‘s sewing shirts for soldiers Such skill at sewing shirts  my shy young sister Suzy shows Some soldiers send epistles usually Saying they’d sooner sleep on thistles Than the short serge shirts for soldiers  shy young sister Suzy sews usually.

Drills on Linking What is linking?

Follow with the hand out given in class! Drills on Linking Follow with the hand out given in class!

Fiddler on the Roof “If I were a rich man” Musical clip Fiddler on the Roof “If I were a rich man”

Monotonous Classical-opera Orchestra Nursery rhymes Boutique Overplay Vocabulary Catchy punk rock Monotonous Classical-opera Orchestra Nursery rhymes Boutique Overplay Rock and roll Disco Pop music Rap Hip Hop

Exhilarating Frenetic Evocative Haunting Mellow Soothing Vocabulary: Awesome Latin beat Exhilarating Frenetic Evocative Haunting Mellow Soothing Soft jazz Soundtrack Clean cut Cutting edge

COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH UNIT5, Music and Musicians Professor: Ms. K. Casimir Week5, Lesson4 12/11/13

Objectives: During this session, students should be able to discuss their favorite music types, reading and sharing personal views on music, expressing preferences (personal taste and style of music), listening to people’s opinion about music, vocabulary on music, comparing and contrasting view on music, reading on the Beatles and Rolling Stones, comparing and contrasting ideas. Grammar focus: Double comparatives. Drills: Stress and intonation. Game: vocabulary Game and “What music is best” final instruction for the final presentation on the 18th.

Who does this word reminds you of? Catchy Punk rock Monotonous Classical-opera Orchestra Nursery rhymes Boutique Overplay Rock and roll Disco Pop music Rap Hip Hop

Who does this word reminds you of? Awesome Latin beat Exhilarating Frenetic Evocative Haunting Mellow Soothing Soft jazz Soundtrack Clean cut Cutting edge

Vocabulary exercises Work in pair: Do exercise 2 page 36

What’s your favorite music style and why?

Game: what is the best Music? Group: You are working for a company that specializes in making music al decisions for public events. Three choices are given for each case scenario. Discuss and pick the most appropriate music style to be played for each public event. 10 minutes

Music and musicians What is your music taste? What kind of things do you look for in a new song or an artist?

Listening: Awesome tunes Listen to CD 24-25. 1. Do exercise A 2. Do exercise B complete the chart! Page 44

Grammar: In pair: Exercise B and C, page 45

Grammar focus: Double comparatives In double comparative, a conditional relationship is expressed. The condition is always expressed in the first clause. The verb “to be” is optional in the first clause. “The more I practice my guitar, which one Is the the better I become” conditional clause?

Describing musical performances A and B: Vocabulary exercises

Discussion: Music Preferences Group: Do exercises A and B Class: Exercise C page 46

Types Classical Rock and Roll Country Soft Rock Pop Easy Listening Disco Reggae Blue Grass

Example: Blue Grass

Reading: The Beatles Vs. The Rolling Stones Scan and look up new words Read quietly Do Exercise A, and B

Idioms in the music world

Homework: Prepare to talk about your favorite singer: what is special about this singer, why you like him or her, how did he or she begin a career in music and where is he or she now? Read Unit 7 Your next oral quiz will be on 12/18/13