英语歌曲与英语学习Unit 1 Yesterday Onec More.ppt

Unit 1 A Letter for You Read A Letter for You and then you can know something about the aims of this unit. It will help you learn this unit well. Aims of this unit 1. Understand the lyrics and the theme of Yesterday. 2. Develop students’ four skills, mainly listening and speaking. 3. Develop pronunciation skills through the song. 4. Be able to use some vocabulary and sentence structures in the song. 5. Get familiar with the use of synecdoche. 6. Learn to sing the song. My kindergarten years. Cartoons. My old friends. My past teachers. My toys. My primary school years. My junior middle school year. Some old songs. Background Knowledge 1. Who are the Carpenters? The Carpenters are the most successful brother/sister act of all time. With their gentle melodies and the amazing voice of Karen Carpenter, their middle-of-the-road（中庸的）music has universal appeal, and is enjoyed by many different generations. They rapidly rose to fame in the early 1970s and wooed（招来）millions of fans with their clean image. As part of a close family, sheltered in each other’s company, the Carpenters were seen as extremely young Americans, role models for a generation. Perhaps the pressure of maintaining this image was too much, for towards the end of the 70s both Richard and Karen were in poor health. Where Richard was addicted to a form of sleeping pills, Karen was suffering from the eating disorder, known as anorexia nervosa(厌食症), which eventually took her life. But with a catalogue as rich as the Carpenters’ their music lives on. The beauty of their sound and the sadness of their story combine to make them truly worth the status they hold. 2. More About the Carpenters A single is a good test of recording artist’s ability to be both concise and compelling(令人佩服的). The performers has just a few minutes to grab and hold the listeners’ attention; to communicate something so powerful that people can’t wa