Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with
A-B-C
When you sing you begin with
do-re-mi
Do-re-mi
Do-re-mi
The first three notes just happen
to be
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Do-re-mi
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Do-re-mi
Me, a name I call myself
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti
Far, a long long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow sew
Tea, I drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to do
Unit 21 Lesson 82
The Moonlight Sonata
Pop music
Country music
Light music
Classical music
Rock ‘n roll
jazz
Rock ‘n roll
jazz
Classical music
Beethoven
one of the greatest composers(作曲家)
born in 1770 and died in 1827.
as a child, did not have a happy life.
Father, a singer, lazy and always drank a lot.
only four, play the piano hour after hour
go around and give concerts when only eleven.
When seventeen, won high praise from Mozart
A few years later, write a lot of music himself
often poor and ill during his life
Deaf when only thirty-one
composing about 300 pieces all his life.
famous pieces :Fate (命运), the Moonlight sonata
The Moonlight Sonata
Happy
sad
quiet(宁静的)
excited(激动的)
Interested
moved(感动的)
comfortable(舒服的)
Listen and read:
a game: who can ask and answer more
questions
Listen and choose A or B
1. Beethoven stopped outside a little house one evening
B
because_________
A. he was walking in the street
played
2. What’s the girl’s greatest wish?
A. listening to Beethoven play
B. he heard his Sonata
A
B. not playing any more
3. What surprised Beethoven when he saw the girl? B
A. she played well
B. she couldn’t see anything
4. How did the girl learn to play the music? B
A. by studying herself B. by listening to the woman next
door
5. What did Beethoven call that new piece of music? A
A. Moonlight Sonata
B. the Sonata in F
Read & tell Right or Wrong
1. Beethoven went to visit a little house one evening.
(W)
2. The girl found it easy to play Beethoven’s Sonata in F.
3. The girl lived alone.
(W)
(W)
4. The young man could make a lot of money.
(W)
5. The young man and the girl were brother and sister.
6. The girl didn’t believe her dream would come true.
7. Beethoven taught the girl to play his Sonata in F.
(R)
(R)
(W)
8. The girl and the young man like the music played by Beethoven.
(R)
Fill in the blanks
was walking
One evening Beethoven _______ in a street when he suddenly
playing his Sonata in F. It was a girl. She wished
heard someone ______
himself play it. But she was so poor that she
to hear Beethoven ______
couldn't ______
afford to buy tickets to the concert.
To
Beethovenknocked
_____ at the door and it opened. ______
his
surprise, he found the girl was blind. Beethoven said no _____.
more,
He sat down and looked up to the sky. The moon shone ______
in
brightly,
through the window. Beethoven began to play. The music was
both lost themselves in
very beautiful. The girl and his brother ______
it.
called the
After Beethoven wrote it down at home, he ______it
Moonlight Sonata.
Free talk
In some way Beethoven and the little
girl are the same.
Do you know what it is?
what can you learn from Beethoven?
And how about the little girl?