牛津译林模块八第二单元Project

spring up
他心中顿生疑虑。 突然刮起强风。 大型购物中心在全国各地纷纷涌现。 A doubt sprang up in his mind. A strong wind sprang up. Large shopping centres are springing up all over the country.
Step 2 Fill in the blanks below.
the USA Jazz began in ________.
It came from the blues, the folk
American black slaves songs of ____________________. faster and livelier Jazz is _________________ than
Step 3 Fill in the chart below.
time periods from the early 1930s to the early 1950s events
traditional jazz went into a gradual decline and was replaced by a R&B.
_____________, a black Big Joe Turner American singer, is thought to be one of the pioneers of rock and roll. Sam Philips, a music promoter from Memphis, Tennessee, found that a white man named Elvis Presley ___________ could sing like a black man.
Louis Armstrong
Big Joe Turner
Bill Haley
Elvis Presley
The Beatles
Step 1 Read the text quickly and answer these questions
1. What is this text mainly about? the development of pop music
During the 1950s
One particular style of R&B became popularrock and roll. Big Joe Turner started out performing jazz.
In the
1920s
In 1954
Big Joe Turner recorded one of the very first rock and roll songs, “Shake, Rattle and Roll” Elvis Presley made his first music recording for Philips.
1960s pop music
with sales of more than 1 billion records the largest concert held up to that time the Beatles were pioneers for what was to come bring back the magic of the Beatles break up come close to being as popular
One of the major characterБайду номын сангаасstics of jazz is changing the music while it is being played to _________________________________________ reflect the singer’s feelings. __________________________________________
blues.
Louis Armstrong ______________, who could
adapt the music while playing and
brought the liberty to
his music, is seen as one of the fathers of jazz.
From R&B to rock and roll
go into a gradual decline be thought of as a form of African-American music combine the fast pace of many kinds of jazz with the older blues sound start out performing jazz in the 1920s one of the very first rock and roll songs become a hit on the R&B charts seek to bring rock music to white audiences get played on the radio make his first record for Philips
2. What was one of the most important instruments used in jazz? the trumpet 3. Who is considered as one of the founding fathers of jazz? Louis Armstrong.
break in/break into sth. 强行闯入 My car’s been broken into twice this month. break in 插嘴 break into sth. : 突然爆发 break sth. off 折断；中断
lack n. 缺乏；短缺；欠缺；欠缺之物
(a) lack of information supply the lack for/through lack of…因缺乏… no lack of…充足的 没有暖气使我们觉得很冷。 他因证据不足而被宣判无罪。 我们这里有充足的水。 Lack of heat made us cold. He was sentenced to innocence for lack of evidence. We have no lack of water here.
break的其他词组
break sth. up : 分 break out : (灾难等)突然爆发；解散；结束；放假 break out :逃脱，逃走 break through sth. 突围，突破 break away 挣脱, 摆脱 break down (机器等)出故障；(谈判等)失败；崩 溃
4. Who is considered as one of the pioneers of rock and roll? Big Joe Turner. 5. Which band was the most successful rock and roll band of the 1960s? the Beatles.
lack vi/vt.缺少，没有
be lacking in…缺少 lack sth (无被动，无进行） 他缺少活力。 他们非常富有，什么都不缺。 He is lacking in energy. They are so rich that they lack nothing.
The Beatles helped make
western pop music _______ _________ popular
around the world.
Wherever the Beatles went,
large numbers of fans would
welcome them.
decline vi/n: 减少，衰退 decline vi/vt: 拒绝 我请他去开会但是他拒绝了。 I invited him to the meeting but he declined. [+ to infinitive]
他们拒绝告诉我他们怎么得到我的地址的。
They declined to tell me how they had got my address.
牛津高中英语第八模块
Unit 2 The universal language
Project
Discuss these questions. Do you know about pop music? Do you like pop music?
Look at the following pictures and discuss them.
In 1954
Language Points
Early jazz
take a brief look at… have its roots have a tendency to be very sad lack variety too slow to dance to there sprung up a faster, livelier kind of music the liberty he brought to his music