THE ORCHESTRA

THE ORCHESTRA

1. CULTURE

   • Our National Orchestra
   • Famous Orchestras all over the world
   • Going to listen an Orchestra with the class
   • Special events related with Orchestras: The New Year's Concert

2. COMMUNICATION

   • Language THROUGH learning
     • Record, predict and learn new words which arise from activities
     • Make use of peer explanations
     • Distinguish language needed to carry out the activities
   • Language FOR learning
     • Questions and answers: How do you feel with this orchestral passage? I feel... (emotion) / What instrument do you hear? I hear the.../
     • Describing musical styles: baroque is characterized by...
     • Describing sounds: high, silent, low, loud...
     • Instructions: listen carefully, be quiet...
   • Language OF learning
     • - Instruments involved: violins, violas, cellos, double basses, clarinets, oboes, tubas, horns, trumpets, trombones, percussion...
     • - Instrument families: woodwind, brass wind, fretted string, percussive string...
     • - Famous composers: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, Haydn, Tchaikovsky
     • - Musical styles: baroque, classicism and romanticism
     • Parts of a orchestra: conductor, first violin, sitting order...

3. COGNITION

   • Vocabulary building, learning and using
   • LEARNING
     • Learn the different instruments involved in a orchestra, how they sound, know famous composers and some of their music
   • DOING
     • Preparing a poster in groups with the instruments of a Orchestra and their distribution
   • IDENTIFYING
     • The different instruments that play in an orchestra and their sounds
   • ASSESSING
     • self-assessment (of the group work), and assessing other pupils' projects

4. CONTENT

   • Instruments involved
   • Instrument families
   • Famous composers
   • Listening to orchestral passages
   • Musical styles
   • Identifying the instruments
   • Parts of a orchestra