OP Unit 6: The sound of music

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                OP Unit 6: The sound of music

Objectives:

Grammar:          Modals

Listening:           Video on effect of music on the brain

Speaking:           Exam practice Part 2

Vocabulary:       Phrasal verbs with take

Reading:             Exam practice Part 2 + 6

What functions can music have?

Playing music makes you smarter

True

Not true

www.ted.com

Generating research questions:

So, while other activities, such as sports or even the arts, trigger individual parts of the brain – specifically the motor, visual and auditory cortexes—playing music simultaneously triggers all of those cortexes and more throughout the brain. Music students who practice with discipline slowly begin to strengthen different areas of the brain, which improves efficiency in music skills, academic studies and even social interactions.

Now knowing this. Can you come up with interesting follow-up research questions?

research questions

You may have come up with a question that, one day, will put an end to disease, war, depression, etc.

Modals:

Degrees of likelihood

page 181

For today:

Reading: pages 50-51

Phrase spot: p. 51

Grammar: ex 1, 4 and 5 pages 52-53

Idiom spot: p. 54

unit 6 idiom spot

to be someone of note very important person

to be in tune with harmonize, agree

to go for a song very cheaply

to have a second string to one's bow to have another skill or ability

to settle the score payback, return

to strike the right note do something in a way that is very suitable to a particular audience

to strike a chord with to provoke enthousiasm