南京市大厂高级中学李艳芳 宋长凤

Do you know what is the universal language

• Music is the universal language. All people from the different countries have the same language that is music.

• I know most of you like music, then I want to know how much you know about music.

Please guess:

What kinds of musical instruments are these songs are played by?

1` It is played by _________.a piano

• It is played by ______.violin

• It is played by __________.saxophone

• Now please imagine if all these musical instruments play together then what will happen?

• It will be like this.

An orchestra 交响

乐团

Have you ever seen the performance of an orchestra on TV?

How much do you know about orchestras?

• What is an orchestra?• How many kinds of orchestras are

there in our life? What are they?• What do they mean separately?• What kinds of music are often

performed by orchestras?• What kinds of musical instruments

are included in an orchestra?

Module 8 unit 2 The universal language

Word Power

Read part A of page22 and answer the questions

• What is an orchestra? • How many kinds of orchestras are

there in our life? What are they?• What do they mean separately?• What kinds of music are often

performed by orchestras?• What kinds of musical instruments

are included in an orchestra?

Answers

• What is an orchestra?

• How many kinds of orchestras are there in our life? What are they?

• What do they mean separately?

2` Two, they are chamber orchestras （室内乐队） and sympathy orchestras （交响乐队） or philharmonic orchestras （爱乐乐队） .

1` An orchestra is a group of musicians that mostly play classical music.

3` A chamber orchestra is a small orchestra, while a large or full size orchestra can be called a sympathy orchestra or philharmonic orchestra. While sympathy means a long piece of music that has three or four parts or movements, philharmonic means devoted to music.

4` What kinds of music are often performed by orchestras?

5` What kinds of musical instruments are included in an orchestra?

4` The most frequently performed music is western classical music or opera, but now they are also used in popular music and music from different countries.

Read these words and try to remember them

2` Two, they are chamber orchestras （室内乐队） and sympathy orchestras （交响乐队） or philharmonic orchestras （爱乐乐队） .

5` Four groups, they are the strings( 铉乐器 ), woodwind （木管乐器） , brass （铜管乐器） and percussion （打击乐器） .

Fill in the blanks

an orchestrasmall: a ________ orchestra

Large: a ________ orchestra

Four groups of musical instruments

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_____________

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Music of an orchestra

________ classical music________Popular musicMusic from different _________

How many musical instruments do you know?

低音提琴Double-bass

Cello大提琴

中提琴viola

Violin小提琴

长号trombone

萨克管saxophone

小号trumpet

法国号French horn

土巴号tuba

Harp竖琴

Cymbals钹

Bass drum低音鼓

木琴xylophone

Flute长笛

竖笛clarinets

Part B

The orchestra

strings brass woodwind percussion

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Fill in the blanks of part C according to what we learned in part A and part B.

to• Orchestra• Chamber• Symphony• Strings• Brass• Violins• Cellos• Brass• Trumpets• Flutes• Woodwind• Bass drums

answer

Appreciation

Appreciate the sympathy and think what you can hear in it.

Thinking

• What can you learn from this Beethoven sympathy no 7?

Homework

• Remember the word related.

• Finish exercise D on page 23.

• Preview grammar of page24.