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1、Reading task and writing2021/8/11 星期三1Workbook P55A Good Master Remembered2021/8/11 星期三2Ludwig van Beethoven,a major composer of the nineteenth century,overcame many personal problems to achieve artistic greatness.2021/8/11 星期三3Read the passage and discuss the questions:1 In what ways does the serva
2、nt admire 2 Beethoven?He admires his persistence in composing and the way be included his feelings about his deafness into his music.2021/8/11 星期三4 2 Give two examples of how Beethovens deafness affected him.Beethovens deafness affected him personally because he had to stop being a concert pianist a
3、nd concentrate on composing music.It affected him musically because he was able to use his emotions in his music and write even greater music.2021/8/11 星期三53 What might Beethoven have done if he had net gone deaf?If he had not gone deaf,Beethoven would still have been famous as a great pianist.4 Wha
4、t would you concentrate on if you were to go deaf?2021/8/11 星期三65 Many people were frightened when they first met Beethoven.Why?His moods were changeable and could grow wild and angry.He sometimes appeared like a wild man.In addition he was often so involved in his music that he forgot to brush his
5、hair or wear appropriate clothes.2021/8/11 星期三7Listening Task on P562021/8/11 星期三81Read these phrases before 2 listening to the tape for the first time.Tick them if you hear them mentioned.2021/8/11 星期三9_Fifth Symphony,First Movement _Choral Symphony_Ninth Symphony _Pastoral Symphony _Fate Symphony_
6、Sunlight Sonata _Moonlight Sonata _Fifth Symphony,Third Movement第五交响曲第五交响曲 第九交响曲第九交响曲“命运命运”交响曲交响曲 月光奏鸣曲月光奏鸣曲“田园田园”交响曲交响曲“圣诞圣诞”交响曲交响曲2021/8/11 星期三102 Listen a second time and fill in the chart.Symphony numberNickname What it is aboutFate SymphonyNo 5His attitude to his problem of deafness 2021/8/11 星
7、期三11Pastoral SymphonyChoral SymphonyNo 9No6Love of nature Hope and joy 2021/8/11 星期三12HOW BEETHOVEN USED HIS DEAFNESS TO MAKE GREAT MUSICIn 1802 Beethoven became very upset when he realized that he would never hear accurately again.Because he was unable to share his feelings with others,he poured al
8、l his feelings into his music.His fifth symphony was the first where2021/8/11 星期三13these powerful feelings were expressed.In the first movement Beethoven introduces a strong beat,which is repeated to make a rhythm,it has been described as“fate knocking at the doer”.It shows Beethovens attitude to hi
9、s problem of deafness.(Extract of music from fifth symphony first movement)2021/8/11 星期三14But his mood changes as the symphony continues.In the third movement his despair was transformed into something much more exciting and challenging.It is as if he was refusing to be defeated by his deafness.List
10、en to the power of the music.(Extract from fifth symphony third movement)2021/8/11 星期三15 Beethovens love of nature was well-known.The countryside calmed and relaxed him and also found its way into his music.On many occasions when he was struggling to finish a piece of music he would go for a long wa
11、lk to sort out his ideas.2021/8/11 星期三16He described this as working while he walked.These walks found their way in his sixth symphony,called the Pastoral symphony or countryside symphony,which is one of his most popular compositions.(Extract from the pastoral symphony)2021/8/11 星期三17After 1812 his
12、hearing became so bad that he became severely upset.Maybe he felt that nothing good would happen to him again.His musical output almost stopped.But strangely enough,this produced some of his most2021/8/11 星期三18emotional music.His ninth and last symphony,called the choral symphony,was his greatest co
13、mposition.He used a poem by a German poet to express his feelings of hope and joy.(Extract from last movement of Beethovens ninth symphony)2021/8/11 星期三19But Beethovens music was not always grand and important.Many of his pieces for the piano are personal and gentle.So we will finish with one of his
14、 best-loved piano pieces,the Moonlight Sonata.The first movement describes a peaceful,quiet and beautiful moonlight night2021/8/11 星期三20when all troubles have disappeared and only the beauty of nature remains.(Complete Moonlight Sonata)2021/8/11 星期三21SPEAKING TASKMany people think that Beethoven was
15、 always a genius.Other people think he would never have been such a great composer but for his deafness.2021/8/11 星期三22Step 1:In pairs discuss:whether you think a genius is born or is made by circumstances;whether you think adversity makes one wise or not.2021/8/11 星期三23Step 2:Have a class debate.Us
16、e the ideas and examples you have collected to help you with your arguments.Beethovens life Born:1770 Died:18272021/8/11 星期三24Career:1795:already an important pianist,teacher of music,composer,and giver of concerts1798:deafness began to interfere1802:concentrated only on composing1817:totally deaf18
17、23:last symphony composed 2021/8/11 星期三25S1:Do you think Beethoven was always have been a genius or was he made into one by circumstances?S2:I think he was always a great musician.Lets look at his life before he went deaf.He was already aSample discussion2021/8/11 星期三26already a famous pianist and h
18、e did do some composing.But his composing was not the most important part of his work before he became deaf.So I think circumstances made him a great composer.2021/8/11 星期三27S1:Yes,but I suppose he must always have had it in him to be a great composer and the deafness gave him an opportunity to conc
19、entrate on it.It doesnt mean he wasnt born a genius-it just means he did not develop that skill fully at first.2021/8/11 星期三28S2:OK.What other evidence is there?His compositions were good but not outstanding until the Fifth Symphony when be put all his feelings about his deafness into his music.It w
20、as this ability to express his emotions in music that made him a genius.That was the result of circumstances.2021/8/11 星期三29S1:Of course youre right but his compositions were already well-known.He had the ability.Concentrating on it made it greater.Thats all.Anyway lets hear what the others have to
21、say in the class debate,shall we?2021/8/11 星期三302021/8/11 星期三31WRITING TASK Write a newspaper article putting forward your point of view about Beethoven.Remember to:*begin by describing your idea of a genius;2021/8/11 星期三32*collect your ideas about whether Beethoven fits this description or whether
22、he became a genius as a response to disaster in his life.Make each idea a new paragraph and set out a reason for each;2021/8/11 星期三33*finish by repeating what you said in the first paragraph.Make it clear whether you believe Beethoven showed perseverance to become a genius in the face of terrible di
23、fficulties or whether he was a born genius.2021/8/11 星期三34Some useful words and expressionsDescribing the effect of deafnessDescribing the effect of composing2021/8/11 星期三35lonely alone isolated differentawkward strange scared terrifieddesperate perseverant relief calm release successconquering conc
24、entrating overcoming demonstrating showing accepting 2021/8/11 星期三36Sample writingWHAT MAKES BEETHOVEN A GENIUS2021/8/11 星期三37My idea of a genius is someone who has a great talent but must develop this talent through hard work until it become good enough to produce the work of a genius.2021/8/11 星期三
25、38 Beethoven was certainly a man like that.He had great talents as a composer of music.He played the piano and was a famous pianist of his day.He had also already begun to compose before he2021/8/11 星期三39became deaf.His deafness forced him to concentrate on his composing and that produced some very
26、profound and important music.It made him into a real genius.2021/8/11 星期三40 The perseverance of Beethoven in the face of his deafness made him into a composer far more important than he would have been without it.Indeed it has been2021/8/11 星期三41suggested that his terrible difficulties pushed him into becoming a genius.I would agree with that and so I suggest that geniuses are made not born.2021/8/11 星期三42HOMEWORK1.Write an article on the research of 2.you own about the five people on 3.page 58,Workbook.2.Review the whole unit and check 3.your studies.2021/8/11 星期三432021/8/11 星期三44