3 What Music Does

3 What music does GRAMMAR: could / was able to / managed to; past continuous; past perfect; past conclusions UNIT VOCABULARY: musical instruments; body metaphors; where to put things; saying what you like FOCUS FUNCTION: complimenting someone’s performance Introduction p27 Tip: If students have difficulty guessing where the stress is (they often do), tell them to Aims just hum the word instead. It takes the The focus of this lesson is to introduce the topic of emphasis off the word and focuses on music and the effect that it has on people’s lives. the sound and rhythm, making the stress Students learn the names of musical instruments much easier to hear. and are encouraged to think about a wide variety of musical styles, not just mainstream types. Extra idea: Find out if anyone plays any of You first! the instruments listed. Do any students play Students discuss in pairs how important music is instruments that are not listed (eg clarinet, to them. Write extra questions on the board to oboe, French horn)? Expand the lexical set increase speaking and learner interaction (eg How to ensure that students can describe their often do you listen to music? Where do you listen own musical interests. Remind students to it? How do you listen to it? Do you use an mp3 that the collocation is play an instrument – player, CD player, laptop or listen to songs on your no preposition is needed. smartphone or tablet? Do you like listening to music on the radio? Do you ever go to concerts? 3 GUESS Students work in pairs and guess the Do you prefer live music?). answers to the questions. If possible, they can check their answers quickly online using their 1 Give students time to check they understand smartphones or tablets. all the words in the box. They then take turns acting out the instruments for their partner Answers and guessing the instruments. Yuja Wang: piano, China Courtney Pine: saxophone, England Extra idea: If there are any instruments Hilary Hahn: violin, the USA in the list that students haven’t heard of, Anoushka Shankar: sitar, England encourage them to research them online. Rodrigo y Gabriela: guitar, Mexico Toumani Diabaté: kora, Mali 2 1.19 Play the recording for students to mark the word stress in each word. If 4 1.20 Students listen and check their necessary, do the first one with them as an answers. You could also show them short clips example. Get feedback and do some repetition on YouTube of each musician. drilling to practise pronunciation. Ask students which words are very similar in their own Transcript language and which are very different. Yuja Wang plays the piano. She was born Answers in Beijing, China. She started playing the piano when she was six. She’s a really bagpipes, bass guitar, cello, double bass, brilliant pianist – but she says she loves drums, flute, guitar, harp, keyboard, fashion too! kora, piano, saxophone, sitar, trombone, trumpet, violin Courtney Pine plays the saxophone – and many other instruments. He was born in London. His parents are from Jamaica. Unit 3 69 Hilary Hahn is a violinist. She was born in EXPLORE ONLINE Virginia, USA. She started to play the violin This activity can either be done in class or for when she was four years old. homework. Encourage students to look up the Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero musicians online using their smartphones or play guitars. They were both born in tablets. Get feedback (eg Which musicians did you Mexico City. They used to play in a rock like best? Why? What famous musicians are there band, but now they play their own special in your country?). kind of music. 6 EVERYBODY UP! Students walk around the Anoushka Shankar plays the sitar. She is room and find out more about each other’s the daughter of the great Indian sitar player musical skills, then report back in feedback Ravi Shankar. He started to give her music This is also a nice opportunity to practise the lessons when she was seven. She was born past simple and present perfect continuous, in London, England, and lives in London which were featured in Unit 2 (eg When did and New Delhi. you start? How long have you been playing the Toumani Diabaté plays the kora, a popular guitar? Have you been taking lessons?). West African instrument. He is a music superstar from Mali. He plays his kora all Lesson 1 Making music over the world. differently pp28–29 5 Give students a few seconds to read the questions so they know what to listen for. Play Aims and pause the recording as necessary. Remind The focus of this lesson is to practise could / them that they don’t need to write every word was able to / managed to to describe ability and when they make notes. things we have succeeded in doing. Students also read about two famous musicians, learn body Answers metaphors and share information about their own 1 Yuja Wang is from China. personal achievements. Courtney Pine is from England. Hilary Hahn is from the USA. You first! Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero Students work in pairs or small groups to tell each are from Mexico. other about special abilities they have. They should Anoushka Shankar is from England. report back in feedback. Toumani Diabaté is from Mali. 2 Yuja Wang was born in Beijing. Background notes Courtney Pine was born in London. • Evelyn Glennie was born on 19 Hilary Hahn was born in Virginia, USA. July, 1965, and is a famous Scottish Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero percussionist. She grew up in were born in Mexico City. Aberdeenshire and studied at Ellon Anoushka Shankar was born in London. Academy and the Royal Academy of Toumani Diabaté was born in Mali. Music. Glennie has been deaf since the 3 Courtney Pine’s parents came from age of 12. However, although her music Jamaica. teacher believed she would never be Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of the able to continue with her music career, great Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. she went on to become a successful 4 Yuja started playing the piano when she international performer. She often plays was six. barefoot during her live performances Hilary started playing when she was four and studio recordings to feel the music years old. better. She has received many awards for Rodrigo and Gabriela used to play in a her music and work for charity and has rock band. been nominated for the Polar Music Prize Anoushka started playing when she was of 2015. seven years old. • Jean ‘Django’ Reinhardt was born on Toumani plays his kora all over the world. 23 January, 1910, in Liberchies, Pont-à- 70 Unit 3 Celles, Belgium. Django (which means ‘I awake’ in Romani) was attracted to DJANGO music at an early age and quickly learnt 1 He was burned in a fire. to play the violin, banjo and guitar. 2 The doctors said he wouldn’t play music But at the age of 18, in 1928, he was again. injured in a fire and received first- and 3 He learnt to play the guitar in a second-degree burns over half his body; different style using only his index and two of the fingers of his left hand were middle fingers and played with jazz also badly burned. Doctors believed violinist Stéphane Grappelli in the Hot that he would never play guitar again, Club in Paris, France. but with rehabilitation and practice, he learnt to play in a completely new way. Tip: Ask students to read the instructions out He is regarded as one of the greatest loud sometimes. This involves them more guitar players of all time and created an in the lesson and keeps them on their entirely new style of jazz guitar technique toes – they’ll be listening in case you ask (sometimes called ‘hot’ jazz guitar). them! It also involves different learning Django died in Fontainebleau at the styles – some students will understand age of 43. Since his death, many guitar more quickly this way than if they just players and musicians (including Jeff Beck listen to you read the instruction. and Paul McCartney) have expressed their admiration for Django Reinhardt, or have 3 Give students time to make questions about cited him as a major influence. the article. Walk around, help and correct as needed. Then put them in pairs for them to ask Reading and answer each other’s questions. 1 Students look at the photos and the title of the MA Stronger students can be left to write article and write down five things they expect questions individually, whereas weaker to read about. They then read the article and students will find it easier to do this in pairs. If check to see if their predictions were right. they do, ensure they do the second half of the activity (answering the questions) with a new Students re-read the article and answer the partner. questions. Check answers in feedback. Extra idea: Students find words or phrases Answers in the text that mean: 1 Evelyn Glennie played clarinet, but now level of sound (pitch) she plays drums and percussion. unable to hear (deaf) Django Reinhardt played the banjo, the succeed or do something difficult violin and the guitar. (manage to) 2 They both overcame disabilities. a position (a place) get enough money to pay bills and buy 2 Put students in pairs for the jigsaw reading food (earn a living) activity, asking and answering each other’s think or have an opinion about someone questions about the musicians.

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