高中英语 M4 vocabulary and listening课件 外研版选修6.pptVIP

(Module 4);Module 4;Teaching aims and demands:;2. To enable the students to recognize and understand some new words and expressions in a dialogue or a section.;3. To be able to catch the useful information from their discussion. ;Introduction: In the listening, two people Christine and Duncan are talking about these two songs ( Summertime, I’ve Got Plenty of Nothing), which are taken from the opera（歌剧）called Porgy and Bess. How much do you know about Porgy and Bess?;Porgy and Bess started life as a 1925 novel by Dubose Heyward called Porgy, about the life of African Americans in Charleston. George Gershwon(1898-1937), a composer of popular and classical music read the book, and saw its potential（潜在的）as an opera. With his brother, the lyricist（歌词作者）Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) and Heyward, they put together a startling（惊人的）new work, called Porgy and Bess , which was premiered;（首次公影）at the Alvin Theatre on New York’s Broadway on October10th 1935. It soon became a classic（杰作） of modern American music, and the songs (Summertime, I loves you Porgy, It ain’t necessarily so, I got plenty of nothin) have became standards（要求达到的规范或水准）, particularly of the jazz repertoire（演奏曲目）.;Gershwin said, “Porgy and Bess deals with Negro life in America---it brings to(产生) the operatic form elements that have never before appeared in the opera and I have adapted my method to utilise（利用）the drama, the humour, the superstition, the religious fervour（热诚）, the dancing and the irrepressible（无法抑制的） high spirits of the race.”;Listen to the tape and do the exercises.