5 MY LIFE IN MUSIC 5.1 4 Read through the questions with students before they Objectives complete the exercise. Check/clarify: busker , talent show , talent scout . Do not check answers at this stage. FUNCTIONS asking about feelings and making helpful 5 Students read the text quickly to check their ideas. suggestions GRAMMAR present perfect continuous; present perfect Remind students they don’t have to understand every simple vs. present perfect continuous word at this point. Check answers. VOCABULARY making music; musical instruments; phrasal verbs with out Answers Student’s Book page 48–49 1 bottom picture 2 top picture (this picture shows One Direction who shot to fame afuer winning the talent show READING X Factor ) 3 (open question) 4 (open question) 1 1.34 Books closed. To wake students up with a physical warmer, ask the whole group to stand up. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Nominate an individual to say the name of a musician X Factor is a television music competition franchise. Amateur or group. If a student likes a song by this artist they artists compete to win the afgections of a team of judges and the audience. Judges review and then train finalists, helping sit down. You could ask individual students to name with song selection and styling. It originated in the United which song they like when they have sat down. Keep Kingdom. going until everybody is sitting down. This can then The Voice is a television music competition franchise created be repeated with students standing up when they in Holland in 2010. It is difgerent from other talent shows own a recording by a named artist. in that competitors are only judged on how well they sing, Books open. Play the audio while students match the rather than how they look or perform. types of music to the pictures. Leona Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer-songwriter. She won the X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million record Answers contract. She has now released five albums. Steve Brookstein (born 10 November 1968) is an English 1 rap 2 dance music 3 jazz 4 opera 5 rock singer who won the X Factor in 2004. His first single Against All 6 pop Odds reached number one in 2005. He was soon dropped by his original record label but kept recording with other labels 2 Write types of music in the centre of the board. Divide and released his third album Forgotten Man in 2014. the class into groups of three and ask them to think Olly Murs (born 14 May 1984) is an English singer. He was of as many difgerent types of music as possible. Tell runner-up in the X Factor in 2009. His debut single Please students they should write their list in the form of Don’t Let Me Go reached number one in August 2010. He a mind map with genres of music leading to other remains popular and has released three albums. genres e.g. rock leading to punk, heavy metal, rock Joe McElderry (born 16 June 1991) is an English singer. He and roll, glam rock etc. After three minutes, ask won the X Factor in 2009. His first single The Climb reached students how many they have in their list. Ask a number one. He has now released four top 20 albums. student from the highest scoring group to come to the Justin Bieber (born 1 March 1994) is a Canadian singer- board and try to draw a mind map of their list. When songwriter. He was first discovered through his YouTube it is complete, elicit further types from the rest of the videos in 2007 and was immediately a massive success with group and ask them to add them to the mind map. seven songs from his debut album charting in the USA. Lily Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter. 3 SPEAKING Divide the class into small groups and She lefu school at 15 to concentrate on music. She posted ask students to compare their musical tastes. In some songs on MySpace which were played on national radio preparation for their discussion, you might like and resulted in a recording contract. Her first single Smile to write some adjectives on the board for them to was number one in July 2006 and her first album Alright, Still use (e.g. brilliant , great , terrible , awful ). Monitor to sold over 2.6 million copies. make sure students are getting equal opportunity to Eric Clapton (born 30 March 1945) is an English singer and speak and that students are attempting to describe guitarist. His long career includes playing with The Yardbirds the music they like, rather than simply giving lists and Cream in the 1960s and as a solo artist since the of artists. Try the ‘silent tick’ – writing a tick on a seventies. He is seen as one of the most influential guitarists of all time. student’s notebook if they speak well. Students can be quite motivated by this! Ask some of the students to share their opinions with the whole class and encourage open class discussion. 56
5 MY LIFE IN MUSIC 6 4 SPEAKING In pairs or small groups, students discuss 1.35 You could set a homework research task for students to fjnd out about these items before they their dreams. Encourage them to go into detail about come up in the text. You could then start ofg the what they want to do and how they plan to make it lesson by asking students to tell the class what they happen. Their partners should give advice to them. have found out. Listen to some of their ideas in open class. Students read through questions 1–8. Check/clarify: publicity , contract , label , posted , attention . Play the Student’s Book page 50–51 audio while students listen and read and answer the questions. Students can compare answers in pairs GRAMMAR before a whole-class check. Play the audio again as necessary, pausing to clarify any problems. Present perfect continuous 1 Focus students on the sentences and ask them to try Answers to complete them, in pairs, before they refer back to Answer #3 in the online forum to check answers. 1 TV talent shows 2 Steve Brookstein 3 Third Encourage them to underline the sentences in the 4 Justin singing in a local competition 5 13 text as they fjnd them. During open class feedback, 6 She posted some of her music online 7 It helps them get a good local following. 8 London use concept-check questions to check understanding: In 1 does the speaker write songs now? (yes); When did the speaker begin writing songs? (when he/she was a Optional extension teenager); Is he/she doing a lot of busking? (yes but If you have an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in the classroom, not right at this moment); Why does he/she mention show students some clips of videos by the artists mentioned this? (to explain the benefjts/positive consequences in the reading text. Ask students to work in pairs and give of doing this); In 3 is the band still playing now? (yes); their opinions on the music. This can be done as a speaking or writing exercise. Alternatively, students could work in How long have they been playing together? (not long). small groups and give the songs a score from one to ten. Add up the scores to see which song is most popular. Answers 1 ’ve been writing 2 ’ve been doing 3 haven’t been playing 2 Students match the sentences with the rules. With Following your dreams weaker classes, you may like to do this as a whole- 1 Books closed. To introduce this topic, you might like class activity. Check answers. You could also get to tell students about your ambitions when you were students to match sentences 1–3 in Exercise 1 with younger. Alternatively, you could put a photo (or the rules if they need further clarifjcation/support. photos) that illustrates your dream on the IWB and Do this during feedback or as a follow-on activity. hide it with the ‘reveal’ option. Slowly reveal the picture and ask students to guess what your dream Answers was. Ask them: Did the dreams come true? 1 b 2 a 3 c Write sentences 1–4 on the board. Ask students to work in pairs and try to guess what the four people’s 3 This exercise checks students’ understanding of the dreams are. Listen to some of their ideas before form of the present perfect continuous. Read through students open their books and match the people with the sentences and check understanding of barked / their dreams. Check answers with the whole class. barking . Let students compare answers with a partner before a whole-class check. Answers Answers 1 d 2 b 3 c 4 a 1 talking 2 been 3 hasn’t 4 been 5 haven’t 2 This is an opportunity to review the language of 6 barking advice from Unit 4. Working individually, students make notes on their answers. Monitor and help with any vocabulary as required. Fast finishers Ask students to write sentences describing how long members of their family have been doing things, e.g. My Mixed-ability brother has been learning Spanish for two months. My sister Stronger classes: Elicit words and phrases used for giving has been playing the violin since she was 10. advice and write them on the board. Weaker classes can look back at Unit 4 to find language of advice. 3 SPEAKING Divide the class into pairs or small groups. Students compare their ideas and decide which the best piece of advice is for each of the people. Listen to some of their ideas as feedback. 57
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