3. music on the tape. See if they can guess which music matches with which picture.

Step 2 Pre-reading

1. Ask students to answer the question:

Have you heard about any of the famous bands/groups in the world? List some if you have.

2. Play the tape and let students listen to some pieces of music from different bands. Then ask them :Which band do you like best? (Show some pictures of some famous bands to the students.)

3. Talk about "the Monkees" with the students.

Do you know anything about "The Monkees " ?

Step 3 Fast reading

1. Reading the passage quickly and tell us what the passage is about.

2. Try to find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Para. 1. Dreaming of being a famous musician or singer.

Para. 2. How musicians form bands.

Para. 3. How the Monkees got their start.

Para. 4. How Monkees become serious about the music business.

Step 4 Careful reading

Read the passage carefully and finish the following tasks:

Task 1. Do the exercise True or False.

1. Most musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play music.

2. The TV organizers had looked for five musicians who were lively and who could make good music.

3. Each week the group that was called "The Beatles"would play a song or two written by other musician.

4. Though the band pretended to sing at first, were popular with the fans.

5. "The Monkees" broke up in about 1960, but reunited in 1980.

Task 2. Which is the correct order of the growing of the Monkees?

1.They started to play their own instruments and write their own music.

2. They played songs written by other musicians.

3. They produced a new record to celebrate their time as a band.

4. The band broke up about 1970.

A. 1→4→3→2 B. 1→2→4→3 C. 2→3→4→1 D. 2→1→4→3

Task 3. Choose the adjectives that you think best describe "The Monkees".Give your reasons.

Popular lively funny foolish brave crazy classical rich honest attractive famous determined

Step 5 Watch a video and sing the song together.

Step 6 Evaluation with encouraging words.

Step 7 Homework

Read the reading passage again and try to retell the passage The Band That Wasn't.