东北大学《大学英语第四册》课件-第2章.pdfVIP

Learning Objectives 1. Get to know a passionate musician 2. Describe a person’s strong difficult personalities 3. Use illustration to support ideas 4. Sum up the main idea of a text Text B: Ludwig van Beethoven: a passion for music 3 Warm-up activity Read to generalize 3 Read and check Read and discuss 3 Post-reading activity 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. Ludwig van Beethoven: A Passion for Music Born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven started playing the piano before he was four years old. By the time he was twelve, this child prodigy had already composed his first piece of Early life 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 period. Beethoven proved to be a gifted pianist and an imaginative composer. 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 personality. In one infamous incident, Beethoven became so upset with a waiter that he emptied a plate o