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Unit 2 Task
Making an exhibition
board about a composer
When we talk about a famous person,
what information do you want to know?
Read the guidelines and the four points
in Skill building 1 on page 26.
Skills building 1:
listening for facts about people
1. dates when they were born and died
e.g. He/She was born/died on 26 May
1962.
2. places where they were born or died
e.g. He/She was born in London,
England.
3. specific things that they did in
their life, such as when and where
they got married or had a child
e.g. He married Jane in Paris in 1999.
They had their second son in
Beijing in hr autumn of 2010.
4. information about why they did
something and who or what influenced
them.
e.g. He wrote this opera because he liked
East Asia.
Influenced by her father, she was
interested in jazz when she was young.
Step 1: taking notes on famous composers
Listen to Part A and complete the
notes on page 26. You can focus on the
first column --- things to find out.
Things to find out
born (when and where)
died (when and where)
special things: when they
wrote/recorded their _____
first piece of
music
influenced them
People/things that __________
Names of their most famous ______
works
Listen again and fill in the blanks.
There are some blanks you will not
be able to fill in this time.
Read the information and complete
the notes in Part A.
Listen again and complete the table.
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
on 27 January on 7 May 1840;
1756;
in Russia
in Austria
in 1791
in 1893; in Saint
Petersburg
Paul Simon
on 13 October
1941; in
the USA
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Paul Simon
published his
first piece of helped write recorded his first
music at 8 in a song at 4; song in 1957 with
1764;
his friend
wrote the
finished his music for the Garfunkel; record
first opera at ballet Swan
his first album
12
Lake in 1876 with Garfunkel in
in 1768
1964
Mozart
Tchaikovsky Paul Simon
His father Mozart was influenced
was a great his favourite by African
influence composer and and Brazilian
on his life. influenced his
music
life and work.
Mozart
The Magic
Flute; The
marriage of
Figaro
Tchaikovsky
Paul
Simon
Swan Lake
‘Bridge
over
Troubled
Waters’
Skills building 2:
finding out about people’s lives
Sometimes you need to find out about
people’s lives. You can start by asking
the following questions:
• Which city/country was he/she born in?
• When was he/she born?
• What instruments did he/she play?
• When was …written?
• When did he/she die?
• Where did he/she die?
• Did he/she have brothers/sisters?
What were their names?
• When did he/she get married?
• Who did he/she marry?
• Can you tell me any other
information about him/her?
• Is there anything else you can tell
me about him/her?
Step 2: asking for further information
Work in pairs to do a role-play
activity. One asks questions and the
other answers them using the
prompts given on page 28. You
should switch roles when you finish.
Skills building 3:
writing someone’s life story
• When you write a person’s life story
on an exhibition board, what should
be included in it?
• How can you find the facts or get the
timeline of his/her life story?
Read the guidelines on page 29 to
find out the main things that you
should pay attention to when
writing a life story.
When writing someone’s life story
on an exhibition board, you need to:
1. Start with his/her name as a little
with the dates of his/her birth and
death below.
2. Write the information in the order
that it happened.
3. Include pictures to make it
attractive.
Step 3: writing the life story of a composer
Work in groups and talk about the life
story of the composer you chose. Then, on
your own, use the information that you
gathered in Steps 1 and 2 to write the life
story of the composer. Refer to the
information in Skills building 3 to help you.
介绍人物生平类文章常用句型：
1. Born in …
2. He / She devoted himself / herself to …
and made rapid progress.
3. He / She went through much hardship /
overcame many difficulties.
4. It is no wonder that …
5. What’s worth … is …
6. Young though he / she was, he / she
achieved great success.
7. His / her hard work paid off and
brought him / her great success.
Possible example
The life of a famous composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Early years
Born on 27 January 1756, in Salzburg,
Austria, Mozart showed remarkable
talent in music. His father was a
successful
composer and served as his first musical
tutor. At the age of five, Mozart started
writing classical music. He composed
classical music and had his first piece of
music published in 1764. he composed
his first opera at the age of twelve in
1768.
Achievements
Some of the famous music that he
wrote included:
The Marriage of Figaro, which he
wrote for the Vienna Opera, one of the
world’s best-known opera houses.
Don Giovanni, another successful opera
he wrote in 1787.
The Magic Flute, written in 1791, just
before he died later the same year.
Family
In 1782, Mozart married Constanze
Weber, a young woman from Germany.