1、Unit 5 Rhythm Lesson 4 Lets Dance,Enjoy a dance.,Do you enjoy dancing? What do you think of dancing?,Listen to the music extracts and identify the dances. Key Words disco, classical ballet, Chinese folk dance, waltz, breakdance,Chinese folk dance,1,Classical ballet,2,Waltz,3,Breakdance,4,Disco,5,Can

2、 you name some pictures about dance?,ballet,cha-cha,dragon dance,waltz,hip-hop dance,tap dancing,breakdance,folk dance,disco,tango,Swan Lake,The Yangge,Put the sentences below in the correct gaps in the text. Use the Strategies to help you.,In the mid-1980s, breakdancing became popular. They are eas

3、y to learn and are usually danced in couples.,c) Other kinds of folk dances are the sword danced and the colourful peacock dance. d) One of the most famous ballets is called “Swan Lake”. e) In the 1960s, people danced without touching their partner.,d c b e a,Part 1 Ballet,1. Where and when did ball

4、et begin?,Ballet began in Italy and France during the 15th century.,2. The famous ballets:,Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty,The White-haired Girl,Part 2 Folk Dance,1. Where did the folk dances come from? 2. What kinds of folk dances are famous in China?,They came from the ordinary people.,Dragon dance, Li

5、on dance and Yangge.,Popular or social dances often came from _, although they are usually popular for _.,Part 3 Popular Dance,folk dances,only a short time,Fill in the table with the information from the texts.,France,15th,ordinary,folk dance,music,words,Traditional,group,generation,short,easy,coup

6、les,actions,Sleeping Beauty,The White-haired Girl,dragon,lion,sword,colourful,peacock,In English, new words can be formed by combining or putting together old words. That is two or more words are added together to make one word. The meaning of the new word may be very different from the meanings of

7、the words in isolation.,Vocabulary: Compound Words,你身邊最熟悉的舞蹈是什么呢？仿照課文的思路，寫一篇作文，介紹一下你最喜歡的舞蹈形式。,堂清,common, ordinary, general, usual, popular, universal均含有“普通的，普遍的”之意。 common: 多用于指物，側(cè)重很常見，不 稀奇。 ordinary: 用于物，指每天發(fā)生，十分平 淡無奇；用于人，指無特別之 處，很一般。,Answer these questions.,1. Who started folk dance?,Ordinary peop

8、le.,1. Folk dances are from traditional styles of dancing that come from ordinary people.,ordinary adj. 平常的；普通的 e.g. Our ordinary workday is eight hours.,general: 語氣強于common，側(cè)重大多 如此，很少有例外情況。 usual: 指常見常聞和常做的事或舉動， 強調(diào)慣常性。 popular: 指適應(yīng)大眾愛好、需要，為 大家所公認或接受。 universal: 與general同義，但語氣較 強，側(cè)重對每個人或事物都 適用，根本沒有例

9、外。,2. back and forth為副詞短語，意為“往 返, 來來回回”，相當(dāng)于backwards and forwards，表示某一動作的重復(fù)。 e.g. The bus runs back and forth between the airport and the downtown area. Someone was pacing back and forth behind the curtain.,類似的表達形式還有: now and then 偶爾, 有時 up and down 上下, 來回 sooner or later 遲早 e.g. Though we seldom me

10、et in the same city, we write to each other now and then. The child is jumping up and down on the playground. Youll find the importance of learning English sooner or later.,3. People like to watch performances of this unique folk dance.,unique adj. 獨特的；唯一的 e.g. Every one has his or her unique charac

11、ter. This is a unique opportunity you will get.,unique沒有比較級，最高級的用法，只能用一些quite, almost, nearly, really之類的詞修飾。,n. railway, air conditioner, book case, blood pressure, daughter-in-law, grown-up, greenhouse, income, adj. long-distance, dark-blue, first- class, heart-broken, ten-year-old, v. water-cool,

12、quick-charge ,Examples,African known ball American rock room art dance well 1980s mid form folk music,African-American,ballroom,rock music,art form,well-known,mid-1980s,folk dance,Make compound words by matching one word from each list.,Match four words from Exercise 5 with their definitions.,1 adj.

13、 known by many people,well-known,folk dance,2 noun. a traditional dance from a specific community,3 noun. a large room for formal social dancing 4 noun. in the middle of the 1980s,mid-1980s,ballroom,Read this questionnaire and think about your answers. Then in pairs, tell your partner about yourself.,Speaking,1 Do you like dancing? 2 What kind of dance do you like? 3 What kind of music do