1. Music

2. Which kind of music do you like best?
How does music make you feel?

3. Listen and guess which music matches which picture.

4. 6 5 8 3 4 7 2 1

5. Have you heard about any of the famous bands in the world
Have you heard about any of the famous bands in the world? List some if you have.

6. Twelve Girls Band

10. Jonathan Brothers

13. Westlife
Backstreet Boys

14. The Beatles

15. Monkees

16. A big hit!
The Monkees —
the most popular
band in the USA
from 1966 to 1968!

17. Fast reading Para.1People __________ being a famous singer or musician
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
dream of
Para.1People __________ being a famous singer or musician
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Most musicians____ and _____a band
because they like to write and play music.
meet
form
The Monkees _______ in a different way.
started
How did “The Monkees” _________?
become popular

18. Para. 1. Have you dreamed of being a singer?
2. Do you think that almost everyone
has ever dreamed of being famous?
To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous.
If we are honest with ourselves, most
of us have dreamed of being famous.

19. Para. 2 How do people get to form a band?
Bands may be formed by ___________
_______ who _________ their music in
someone’s home. They may play to
_________ in the street or subway
so that they can earn money.
high school
students
practise
passers-by

20. Para. 3&4. root changes beginning style
How was “The Monkees” formed and became a real band?
beginning
style
root
changes

21. Beginning:
It began as a TV show.
Style:
The musicians played jokes on each other as well as played music.
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.

22. Fill in the proper preposition+ whom/which to complete the following:
This is the gun _____ _____ the hunter shot the antelope.
The athletes ______ _______he will compete come from Greece and Czech Republic.
I can remember the year _________ I became a student of Wenzhou Middle School.
with which
against whom
in which

23. Root: Changes: Their music and jokes were based loosely
on the band called “The Beatles”
Changes:
The band broke up in about 1970, but reunited in the mid-1980s

24. 1970 was the year____________________.
Mid-1980s was the time _______________.
1996 was the year ____________________
___________________________________.
when they broke up
when they reunited
when they produced a new
record to celebrate their former time.

25. Order of the development of “the Monkees”
1 The band began as a TV show
2. then they produce their own records and started touring and playing their own music.
3. the TV organizer put an ad in a newspaper looking for rock musicians
4. the organizer decided to choose one and use actors to form a fake band.
5. but the performance attracted a lot of fans.
6. at first, the band only pretended to sing.
7. after about a year, the band played their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band.

26. How do you understand the title “The Band that wasn’t” ?
The band that wasn’t a band.

27. T or F:
Most musicians like to form a band because they enjoy playing to passers-by in the street or subway.
Only the band “The Monkees” is mentioned in the text.
Some bands formed by high school students earn extra money by playing to passers-by.
The TV organizers had found 4 musicians who could make good music.
Though the band pretended to sing at first, they were popular with the fans.
The Monkees broke up in 1970 and reunited in 1980. F F T F T F

28. Listen to the song I’m a believer then fill in the blanks.

29. I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for ________ else but not for_____.
______was out to get me
That’s the way it seemed.
Disappointment hunted all my dreams.
*Then I saw her _____,now I’m a ________
Not a trace of doubt____ _____ _____.
I’m in love, I’m a________
I couldn't leave her if I tried.
I thought love was _____ ___ _____a given thing,
Seems the more I gave the less I got.
What’s the use in trying?
All ____ get is pain.
When I wanted _________ I got rain.
someone me
Love
face
believer in my
mind
believer
more or
less
you
sunshine

30. ________ performances Start as possibly _________ playing to _______
A common band
the Monkees
Fea-ture
like to __________
_____________
________ on each other
________ performances
Start as
possibly _________ playing to _______
___ musician and ____ actors in a ________.
Later
perform in ____ or ____
became ________about work, played and sang ____________songs At
last
make _______ in a _______&sell
produced _______ & started _____ &______
write and play
their own songs
played jokes
humorous a
three
school students
passers-by
TV-show
pubs
serious
clubs
their own
records
records
studio
touring
playing

31. Homework:
Finish Ex3 on page 35
Finish Ex2-3 on page 36