Unit 5 Music

Pre-reading activities The band that wasn’t

1. How do you understand the title of the passage “The band that wasn’t” ? 2. Which band is “The Band That Wasn’t”?

3. Why the names of Song Zuying and Liu Huan are mentioned in P1? A. Because that they are very famous. B. Because they can sing very well. C. The text only want us to know them. D. The text is giving us some examples of the famous singers that we might want to be like.

3. What is the main ideas of the four paragraphs? Para 1. Para 2. Para 3. Para 4. Dreaming of being famous. The common way that bands form. How the Monkees formed the band? How the Monkees became popular and developed as a real band?

4. Fill in the blanks in the passage: Most of us have _______ being famous in our lives. Most musicians often meet and ______ a band. Sometimes they play in the street to _______ so that they can earn some _______ money and this also gives them a chance to realize their dreams. There was once a band that started in a different way.

The musicians of whom the band was formed ____ each other as well as play music, whose music and jokes were loosely____ on “The Beatles”. Their exciting performances were copied by other groups. “ The Monkees” played their own songs like a real ____. Though it ___ in 1970, it reunited in the mid-1980s and it is still popular today.

【 sentence structure analysis 】 1. To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous. 2. They may start as a group of high-school students, for whom practising their music in someone’s house is the first step to fame. 3. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves or pay for their instruments.

4. The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most of which was based loosely on the Bettles. 5. However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. 6. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as a real band.