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Unit 21 Lesson 82

The Moonlight Sonata

Pop music

Country music

Light music

Classical music

Rock ‘n roll

jazz

Rock ‘n roll

jazz

Classical music

one of the greatest composers(作曲家 ) born in 1770 and died in 1827.as a child, did not have a happy life.

Father, a singer, lazy and always drank a lot.

only four, play the piano hour after hour

go around and give concerts when only eleven.

When seventeen, won high praise from Mozart

A few years later, write a lot of music himselfoften poor and ill during his life

Deaf when only thirty-one composing about 300 pieces all his life.

famous pieces :Fate (命运 ), the Moonlight sonata

Beethoven

Happy

sad

quiet( 宁静的 )

excited( 激动的 )

Interested

moved( 感动的 )

comfortable( 舒服的 )

The Moonlight Sonata

Listen and read:

a game: who can ask and answer more

questions  

Listen and choose A or B

1. Beethoven stopped outside a little house one evening because_________

A. he was walking in the street B. he heard his Sonata played

2. What’s the girl’s greatest wish?

A. listening to Beethoven play B. not playing any more

3. What surprised Beethoven when he saw the girl?

A. she played well B. she couldn’t see anything4. How did the girl learn to play the music? A. by studying herself B. by listening to the woman next

door5. What did Beethoven call that new piece of music? A. Moonlight Sonata B. the Sonata in F

B

B

B

A

A

Read & tell Right or Wrong

1. Beethoven went to visit a little house one evening.

2. The girl found it easy to play Beethoven’s Sonata in F.

3. The girl lived alone.

4. The young man could make a lot of money.

5. The young man and the girl were brother and sister.

6. The girl didn’t believe her dream would come true.

7. Beethoven taught the girl to play his Sonata in F.

8. The girl and the young man like the music played by Beethoven.

(W)

(W)

(W)

(W)

(W)

(R)

(R)

(R)

Fill in the blanks

One evening Beethoven _______ in a street when he suddenly heard someone ______ his Sonata in F. It was a girl. She wished to hear Beethoven ______ play it. But she was so poor that she couldn't ______ to buy tickets to the concert. Beethoven _____ at the door and it opened. ______ his surprise, he found the girl was blind. Beethoven said no _____. He sat down and looked up to the sky. The moon shone ______ in through the window. Beethoven began to play. The music was very beautiful. The girl and his brother ______ lost themselves in it. After Beethoven wrote it down at home, he ______it the Moonlight Sonata.

was walking

playinghimself

affordknocked To

more,brightly,

both

called

Free talk

In some way Beethoven and the little girl are the same.

Do you know what it is?

what can you learn from Beethoven? And how about the little girl?