UNIT 2

11Telling
MusicTall
andTales
dance

Text types review, news article, magazine feature, poem, synopsis

Reading skills explaining figurative language, vocabulary extension, definitions, summarising, paraphrasing
Writing skills press statement, formal letter, performance description, dialogue
Speaking and
class discussion, agreeing with partner, performing dialogue
listening skills
negative forms, clichés, hyphens, comma and full stop usage, phrasal verbs sit, take and give, passives and tenses, past time indicators, formal
Language skills
and informal English, idioms, complex sentences, rhyme and half-rhyme, spelling, continual and continuous
Coursebook answers Activities 2b/c, 3a/b, 4, 5, 6a/b, 7, 8a/b, 9, 10b
Workbook answers Exercises 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Worksheet 11: Past tenses cloze exercise
Worksheets
Worksheet 12: Formal English
11A The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
11B Four-year-old prodigy
Texts 11C A day in the life of Carlos Acosta
11D ‘Every Body Is Doing It’, Benjamin Zephaniah
11E Evita synopsis
• music or film version of Peter and the Wolf (music by Prokofiev)
• Billy Elliot (film and stage musical)
• clip of Cossack dancers, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvnJS_zkaMY
Further recommended
• clip of Whirling Dervishes, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnunfciSr7k
resources
• modern ballet clip, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq_QoKiOy-k
• Flamenco dance clip, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhfV_53W7A
• Street dance clip, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey8Ui63VgHs
• Students review a musical seen on DVD, e.g. Bollywood film, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera.
• Students explain orally how to do the steps for a particular dance.
Further activities
• Students download the synopsis of an opera or ballet (e.g. Swan Lake, Coppelia, The Magic Flute) and reduce it to half a page.
• Students research biographical information for own choice of a famous singer, musician or dancer and turn it into a timeline.

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