1. Take this bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven It is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

2. It expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll It produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius Without it life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche It is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt It is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle

3. The theme: “Is music important in our life?”

4. The aim of the lesson: 1)To answer the question of the lesson 2)To prove your opinion giving the full answer

5. Let’s check up your home work! Make a cinquain poetry. Excellent! 5 Good work! 4 Try again! 3 Sorry, I’m guilty, I’m not ready for today. 2

6. Listen to the music and work in groups 1 group: What kind of music is it? Write as many adjectives as you can. 2 group: How does it influence you? 3 group: What feelings does the music encourage? 4 group: Your opinion about this music. Do you like or dislike it?

7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

8. Work with the text 1)What is this text about? Озаглавьте текст 2)What is every paragraph about? Озаглавьте каждый свой абзац. 3)Underline the key words in your paragraph. Подчеркните ключевые слова в вашем абзаце. 4)Make a cluster on your paragraph. Сделайте кластер к своему абзацу. 5)Retell your paragraph using your cluster. Перескажите свой абзац с опорой на кластер.

9. Music is not just entertainment. It is medicine for both the brain and the body. Don Campbell is an expert on The Mozart effect and the incredible power of music. He says that all kinds of music, from Mozart to jazz, from Latin to rock can effect our learning and our health.

10. Many people use music to help them feel relaxed after a busy day at work. Music can also reduce the stress of being ill, especially by reducing pain. The director of Baltimore Hospital says that thirty minutes of classical music has the same effect as ten milligrams of the painkiller Valium.

11. Music helps you to study better and it can also actually make you more intelligent. In one study, students who listened to Mozart before doing a test got much higher marks than those who didn’t. Many students also show that children who learn to play a musical instrument before the age of twelve have better memories for the rest of their lives.

12. Music is useful for our body and mind helps to relax and to concentrate is useful for our health and learning reduces pain improves our memory reduces the stress of being ill has incredible power is entertainment and pleasure influences our mood

13. 1. Каково твое мнение о музыке Моцарта? 2.Можешь ли ты сравнить современную и классическую музыку? 3.Какие ассоциации у тебя возникают, когда ты слушаешь классическую музыку? 4.Каковы результаты прослушивания музыки Моцарта перед выполнением теста?

14. 1.What is your opinion about Mozart’s music? 2.Can you compare contemporary music and classical ? 3.What associations have you got when listening to classical music? 4.What are the results of the tests after the listening to Mozart’s music?

15. Your home task will be -to a satisfactory mark: to retell the whole text using the cluster. -to a good mark: to retell the text without cluster. -to an excellent mark: to retell the text and to make 6 questions to the text.

16. It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Smiling faces I can see But not for me I sit and watch As tears go by My riches can't buy everything I want to hear the children sing All I hear is the sound Of rain falling on the ground I sit and watch As tears go by It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Doing things I used to do They think are new I sit and watch As tears go by

17. What have you got acquainted with during today’s lesson ? During today’s lesson -We got acquainted with… - I have found out that… -I learnt that… - I remembered that…