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chance—a small one—that someone from a recording pany might be there to hear you can’t rely on that: you have to send in demos too—that’s the only way you can hope a top executive might hear your music.”But Tony Ho, who has played in several different bands in Guangzhou, believes that playing in gigs is very important.“You never know when an agent for a pany is likely to turn up,” he says.“They hear your music, and they see you in action。if they like both, then you are in with a chance.” So what about demos? “Most of them are just thrown away,” he says.“They get hundreds of demos every ’s no way they can listen to all of them!”Tammy Liu plays in an allgirl group in Beijing.“It’s not what you know—or what you do。it’s who you know!” she says.“It’s all about of the stuff that gets released is rubbish—you can be sure that the group is related to someone big in the recording studio!”We asked a senior executive in the music business in London about this.“Look, music is big business,” he said.“No pany is going to sign on people with no talent, just because they are the chairman’s soninlaw!” So what is his advice?“Most record panies are looking for two things—talent, and best way to get noticed by a record pany is by signing up with a good management good agency has got all the right contacts in the music ’s what the Spice Girls would never have succeeded by sending in a demo on cassette!”A good manager has the respect of management agencies, and can save a group of wannabes a lot of you still have to make good music—music that people want to listen you need to get the right equipment—good instruments, and so on—and a good means you must not just sound right—you must look right, and have a good relationship with your then, your chances of success are in the business is sure of one thing: don’t give up your studies, and don’t give up your job, if you have if you succeed, the chances of your lasting a long time are very small!Prereading activitiesActivity 1Specific steps:Reasons for your design:Activity 2Specific steps:Reasons for your design:Whilereading ActivitiesActivity 1Specific steps:Reasons for your design:Activity 2Specific steps:Reasons for your design:Activity 3Specific steps:Reasons for your design:Postreading activitiesActivity 1Specific steps:Reasons for your design:Activity 2Specific steps:Reasons for your design:《英語教學法》(1)期末考試試題之三答案和評分標準Part in the blanks with correct information: 30%, two points each and analyze the target language in the students’ mother tongue European Community, accuracy psychology Humanist School the learner has to do in the language intended meaning to produce structurally perfect sentences amount of background knowledge required responses, utterance pletion and overlaps prehensive training of municative petencePart II Decide whether the following statements are true or T for true and F for %, two points each Part III 50%Design a reading lesson with three stages as that you would teach this text to a senior middle school class。think about the prereading activities you might design for it.[The original text is provided for the reference of markers]So you want to be a pop star?So you dream of being a pop star, do you? What is the best way of getting a contract with a record pany—sending in a demonstration tape(“sending a demo”), or doing concerts(“gigging”)?This question is like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg? According to Eddie Lee, drummer with a group called Cool Shadows, in Shanghai, both demos and gigging are equally important.“Playing in gigs gives you good practice,” he said, “and there is just a chance—a small one—that someone from a recording pany might be there to hear you can’t rely onthat: you have to send in demos too—that’s the only way you can hope a top executive might hear your music.”But Tony Ho, who has played in several different bands in Guangzhou, believes that playing in gigs is very important.“You never know when a agent for a pany is likely to turn up,” he says.“They hear your music, and they see you in action。if they like both, then you are in with a chance.” So what about demos? “Most of them are just thrown away,” he says.“They get hundreds of demos every ’s no way they can listen to all of them!”Tammy Liu plays in an allgirl group in Beijing.“It’s not what you know—or what you do。it’s who you know!” she says.“It’s all about of the stuff that gets released is rubbish—you can be sure that the group is related to someone big in the recording studio!”We asked a senior executive in the music business in London about this.“Look, music is big business,” he said.“No pany is going to sign on people with no talent, just because they are the chairman’s soninlaw!” So what is his advice?“Most record panies are looking for two things—talent, and best way to get noticed by a record pany is by signing up with a good management good agency has got all the right contacts in the music ’s what the Spice Girls would never have succeeded by sending in a demo on cassette!”A good manager has the respect of management agencies, and can save a group of wannabes a lot of you still have to make good music—music that people want to listen you need to get the right equipment—good instruments, and so on—and a good means you must not just sound right—you must look right, and have a good relationship with your then, your chances of success are in the business is sure of one thing: don’t give up your studies, and don’t give up your job, if you have if you succeed, the chances of your lasting a long time are very small!Prereading activities(10%)five points for each activity, which are further divided between “specific steps” and “reasons for your design”, points for each partThe following are possible prereading activities for the reference of need to elaborate the activity as well as give