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普通高中教科书
2019
英语
选择性必修
第册
Unit 2 The universal language
Extended reading (1)
Lead-in
Do you know the name of this song?
Who wrote this song?
lt's Ode to Joy(欢乐领from
Symphony No.(第九交响),the
fourth movement(乐章).
It was composed by Beethoven,
a classical musician from German.
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Lead-in
Share what you know about
Beethoven!
Beethoven
Lead-in
born in
music
Germany
genius
Key words
every orchestra
about
composer
(管弦乐队)
Beethoven
pianist
plays his works
suffer from
loss of hearing
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Extended reading --P 25
Beethoven:
a remarkable life
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Prediction
What aspects will the article talk about?
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Fast reading
Structure main idea
Highlight
Part 1 (Paral)
The first-ever performance of Symphony No.9
Part 2 (Para 2-3)
Life
Beethoven's life journey before his late twenties and
and
his attitudes in the face of the loss of hearing
work
Part 3 (Para 4)
Introduction
to Symphony No.9
Part 4 (Para 5)
Beethoven's reputation and
achievements
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Fast reading
Skimming for the structure and summarizing the main
idea of each part.
Flashback闪回
Highlight
←☐Part1(Para1
(倒叙)
The first-ever performance of
riony No.y
Part 2 (Para 2-31
Beethoven's
life journey
before his late
Life
twenties and his attitudes in the face of
and
the lass of hearing
work
Part 3 (Para 4)
Introduction
to Symphony No.9
Part 4 (Para 5)
Beethoven's reputation and
achievements
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Writing technique
Tip
P26
Identifying flashback in a
text
In some texts,the events are not
put exactly in time order;
Can you
instead,an event that happened
find the
earlier is put in the middle of
the main story,which is called
transitional
flashback.You can tell you are
reading a flashback when the
sentence?
story goes back to the past with
a change of scene.There is
usually a transitional sentence
indicating the change.
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me than in others,a sense which I once possessed in the greatest perfection..."
Beethoven:
Even in his darkest moments,however,Beethoven never abandoned hope.Despite
his hearing loss,he was determined to find a way to continue living a life full of
a rema
What's its
music.He used a variety of hearing aids to try to increase the amount of sound
he could take in.When composing music at the piano,he would put one end of
On 7 May 1824,a crowd of music
function?
a pencil in his mouth and place the other end against the instrument so that he
the first-ever performance of the gre
could feel the notes.Although Beethoven was able to continue composing music,
crowd immediately recognized that they
it became increasingly difficult for him to perform in public.When Beethoven
and they broke into enthusiastic cheers at the enu
presented Symphony No.9 in Vienna in 1824,it was his first time on stage in over
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who was almost completely deaf at this point in his life,was unawa
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ten years.
audience's response until one of the singers turned him around to
Before him,he saw a sea of people all standing,clapping,and wav
ts and
handkerchiefs to express their appreciation of his masterwork.
It serves as a link between the preceding
Symphony No.9 was Beethoven's last major piece of music in a vast body of works
scene of the first-ever performance of
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written throughout his remarkable life.As a gifted child,Beethoven was pushed by
his father to study music day and night.Not long after,he began to be appreciated
Symphony No.9 and Beethoven's life
for his piano performances.By the time he was a teenager,he had already enjoyed
journey that is described in the following
a reputation as a wonderful young musician.Many important figures in the music
world,including the brilliant musician Mozart,started making predictions about
paragraphs.
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Beethoven's extraordinary future.However,life took a sharp turn.In his late
connects all of the different variations into a joyful chorus.
twenties,Beethoven suffered one of the worst possible twists for a musician:he
started to lose his hearing
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As Beethoven's last great work,his Symphony No.9 was also a grand finale to his
The loss of his hearing deeply depressed Beethoven.He was so upset that,at first,
life-he died less than three years after the concert in Vienna,aged 56.For his
he wanted to keep it a secret.In a letter to his brothers,he wrote,".how could
amazing achievements and for his determination even in his darkest days,
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I possibly admit a weakness in the one sense which should be more perfect in
Beethoven is regarded as one of the most remarkable musicians who ever lived.