1、 Learning Objectives1.Get to know a passionate musician 2.Describe a persons strong&difficult personalities 3.Use illustration to support ideas 4.Sum up the main idea of a text Warm-up activityRead to generalizeRead and checkRead and discussPost-reading activity333Text B:Ludwig van Beethoven:a passi
2、on for music Warm-up Do you happen to know Ludwig van Beethoven?And could you tell one or two anecdotes about Ludwig van Beethoven?Read to generalize:Read Text B paragraph by paragraph to generalize their main ideas.Born in 1770 in Bonn,Germany,Ludwig van Beethoven started playing the piano before h
3、e was four years old.By the time he was twelve,this child prodigy had already composed his first piece of music.When Beethoven was just sixteen,he went to study in Vienna,Austria,then the center of European cultural life and home to the most brilliant and passionate musicians and composers of the pe
4、riod.Beethoven proved to be a gifted pianist and an imaginative composer.Ludwig van Beethoven:A Passion for MusicEarly life Read to generalize:Read Text B paragraph by paragraph to generalize their main ideas.Beethoven is remembered for his great genius but also for his strong and difficult personal
5、ity.In one infamous incident,Beethoven became so upset with a waiter that he emptied a plate of food over the mans head.Despite this type of behavior,many in musical and aristocratic circles admired Beethoven,and music lovers were always Beethovens greatest supporters.This fact did not prevent him f
6、rom losing his temper with one or another of them.However,because of his talent,Beethovens friends always excused his insults and moody temperament.Strong and difficult personality Beethoven was also notorious for his eccentric behavior.He often walked through the streets of Vienna muttering to hims
7、elf and stamping his feet.He completely neglected his personal appearance;his clothes would get so dirty that his friends would come and take them away during the night.When they replaced the old clothes with new ones,Beethoven never noticed the difference.Read to generalize:Read Text B paragraph by
8、 paragraph to generalize their main ideas.Eccentric behavior Although Beethoven was respected and admired by his audience,he was not concerned with pleasing them.Beethoven could play the piano so beautifully that some listeners cried;however,when he saw his fans crying,Beethoven only laughed and sai
9、d they were fools.He was so egotistical that if people talked while he was performing,he would stop and walk away.Read to generalize:Read Text B paragraph by paragraph to generalize their main ideas.Coldness/Indifference to his audience Beethoven wrote two famous works,Moonlight Sonata and Fr Elise,
10、for two different women he loved.He was almost always in love,often with a woman who was already married or engaged.Although Beethoven asked several women to marry him,they all rejected him.But the most tragic aspect of Beethovens life was his gradual loss of hearing,beginning in his late twenties u
11、ntil he was completely deaf.However,even as his hearing grew worse,Beethoven continued to be energetic and productive;his creative activity remained intense,and audiences loved his music.In 1826,Beethoven held his last public performance of his famous Ninth Symphony.By this time,the maestro was comp
12、letely deaf.When he was turned around so he could see the roaring applause that he could not hear,Beethoven began to cry.Read to generalize:Read Text B paragraph by paragraph to generalize their main ideas.Tragic aspects of life Beethoven died in Vienna in 1827 at age fifty-seven.One out of ten peop
13、le who lived in Vienna came to his funeral.Read to generalize:Read Text B paragraph by paragraph to generalize their main ideas.death Read to generalize:Read Text B paragraph by paragraph to generalize their main ideas.Ludwig van BeethovenEarly lifeWeird personalityEccentric behaviorColdness to his
14、audienceLifetragediesDeathTopic sentence+Illustration Read and checkRead Text B again to check whether each statement is true(T)or false(F).1.Beethoven was already publishing music at the age of twelve._2.Germany has lots of talented musicians and composers in Beethovens period._3.Beethovens music l
15、overs were increasingly disappointed with Beethovens rude behavior._4.Beethoven was grateful to his friends who were tolerant of his ill temper._F,he was not concerned and cold.T,we can find the answer from Para.1.F,it is Austria that has lots of talented musicians and composers.F,his music lovers w
16、ere always supporting him despite his rude behavior.5.Beethoven was not much concerned with his audiences emotional feelings._6.Beethoven wrote Moonlight Sonata and Fr Elise for two women he loved and who refused to marry him._7.Beethovens loss of hearing had seriously affected his musical creativity._8.Beethoven cried after his last public performance because he could not hear the thunderous applause._T,we can get the answer from Para.4.T,we can get the answer from Para.5.F,his musical creativi
