高中英语人教版必修二教学课件Unit5SectionIWarmingUpReading—Pre–reading.pptVIP

Unit 5 Music SectionⅠ Warming Up Reading—Pre-reading Step 4 Step 3 Step 2 Step 1 Step 5 1．Music plays an important role in our daily life.What kind of music would you like to listen to? 2．Does our mood change while we are listening to different kinds of music? Why? Please read the passage to get the answer. We know that the brain is musical because there are specific neural circuits (神经回路) for music.Our brain structure changes every time we learn something new. Daniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and music at McGill University of Montreal.Dr.Levitin said that music activates neurons (刺激神经元) in more regions of the brain than almost anything else scientists know of. For example, listening to music you like causes the release of dopamine (多巴胺), the so-called “feel good” hormone.On the contrary, listening to music you hate will activate the brains fight center, and that will cause a release of adrenaline (肾上腺素)． Dr.Levitin said that we are all musical experts, because we know the kind of music that is good for us on an emotional level. We see this, in fact, in the way people incorporate (合并) music into their lives.A lot of people use a certain kind of music to get going in the morning, to get out of bed, to get them through an exercise workout, to calm them down at the end of the day.Were using music in the same way we use drugs, really, for better emotion, partly because of the way it can change our moods. Dr.Levitin said humans are a musical species and that our brains evolved (进化) with music as a means of com-municating with each other. He said, “I think that for many of us, music is another way of communicating.There are things that music can do for us that language can‘t.I know, for example, if you’re feeling really angry or stressed, you‘ve had a bad day, you had a fight with somebody — words sometimes aren’t as useful as the right piece of music.As another example, loo