1.Fast reading

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

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

Para 1. Many people want to be famous singers and musicians

Para.2 How most bands start.

Para.3 The Monkees started in a different way.

Para.4 How the Monkees became popular and hoe they developed as a real band

2. Careful reading

1. Read the passage carefully and join the correct parts of the sentences together.

1.They produce a new record in 1996

2. Most musicians get together and

3. They put an advertisement in the

4. The first TV show

5.However, the band broke up about 1970

A. but only one person was accepted

B. but reunited in the mid-1980s

C. form a band because they like to write and play music

D.to celebrate their time as

E. was a big hit

3.Read the passage carefully and do the exercise T or F:

(1) Most musicians like to form a band because they enjoy playing to

passers-by in the street.(F)

(2)Only the band "The Monkees" is mentioned in the text.(F)

(3)It was hard for the TV organizers to look for good rock musicians.(T)

(4) Though the band pretended to sing at first, they were popular with

the fans.(T)

(5) " The Monkees" never played their own songs.(F)

4. Choose the adjectives that you think best describe "The Monkees"

Give your reasons for the choice.

Popular lively funny

foolish attractive brave crazy

noisy classical rich honest

Step 4 .Deal with difficulties

1.Reading and understanding difficult sentences.

2.Underline all the attributive clauses in the passage:

(2) However, there was one band that started in a different way.

(3)The musicians of whom the band was formed played jokes on each other as well as played music.

(4)The TV organizers had looked for four musicians who were lively and who could make good music.

(5)They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they could only find one

that was good enough.