Unit 5 Music Reading and Thinking 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 5 Music Reading and thinking (2) 高中英语 LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this class, you will 1. retell how the virtual choir came into being and influences the world; 2. summarize the organization and language features of a descriptive text; 3. interpret the writer’s attitude towards the virtual choir; 4. express your ideas about the virtual choir. 高中英语 Do you remember how many aspects are introduced about the virtual choir in the reading passage? What are they? How does it influence the world? Virtual choir How was it started? What is it? Who started it? 高中英语 Show what you know about the virtual choir! Virtual choir——WHAT The virtual choir is a new kind of performing form that anyone can take part in. All you need is a video camera and an Internet connection. First you record through video and upload it onto the Internet. Then someone will put all the uploaded videos together into one video online. 高中英语 Show what you know about the virtual choir! Virtual choir——WHO Eric Whitacre is an award-winning composer and conductor who was born in the USA on 2 January 1970. He began learning music in the University of Nevada in 1988 and fell in love with Mozart’s classical music there. He graduated in 1995 and received a master’s degree on composition in 1997. 高中英语 Show what you know about the virtual choir! Virtual choir——HOW Eric’ s original composition was popular among singers and choirs. Then one day in 2009, he was inspired by a girl’ s video and made the first virtual choir called Lux Aurumque, which included the videos of 185 singers from 12 different countries. The first virtual choir seen on stage was called What if, which was made up by 2292 singers from 80 countries. 高中英语 Show what you know about the virtual choir! Virtual choir——INFRLUENCE The virtual choir is now a worldwide phenomenon and a really good way to sing because it connects ordinary people by adding their voices to those of others. It makes positive influences on people’s lives, lets them forget problems,