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Unit 2
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.
These might be cities or countries.
e.g. He/She was born in London, England.
3. specific things that they did in their life.
This will include dates and places such
as when and where they got married or
had a child, etc.
e.g. He married Jane in Paris in 1999.
4. information about why they did
something and who or what
influenced them.
e.g. He wrote this opera because he
liked East Asia.
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)
where they came from, e.g. Europe or
________
the USA
________
style of music they composed
special things, like getting __________
married or
writing __________
their first piece of music
things that _________
influenced them
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.
Things to
find out
born
(when and
where)
Mozart
in the 18th
century;
in Austria
died
(when and in 1791
where)
Tchaikovsky Paul
Simon
in 1840;
in Russia
in 1893, in
Saint
Petersburg
born in
1941; in
the USA
Things to
find out
Mozart Tchaikovsky
where
there came Europe
from
Europe
what style
of music
they
composed
classical
music
classical
music
Paul
Simon
the USA
pop
music
Things to
find out
special
things like
getting
married
or first
music
Mozart
first piece of
music at 8 in
1764; first
opera at 12
in 1768; got
married in
1782
Tchaikovsky
Paul Simon
recorded his
helped compose first song in
a song at 4;
1957 with his
wrote the musicfriend Garfunkel;
for the ballet earned a gold
Swan Lake;
record for his
travelled a lot as first album with
a conductor
his friend
Garfunkel
Things to
find out
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Paul Simon
Things
His father Mozart was
influenced
that
was a great his favourite by African
influenced influence composer and
and Brazilian
them
on his life. influenced his
music
life and work.
Things to
find out
Mozart Tchaikovsky
names of
The Magic
their most
Flute; The
famous
marriage
works
of Figaro
Swan
Lake
Paul
Simon
‘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
underneath.
2. Perhaps use a timeline to illustrate what
the person did in his/her life.
3. Write the information in the order that it
happened.
4. 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 bestknown 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.