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The Beatles are the band which have
sold more records ever in music
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Working with The Beatles has always been and will always be both a pleasure and a need to understand nowadays music. This band is also a capsule of British cul- ture, a door towards a period of time, a moment in history which is worth analysing.
We are going to work on The Beatles with the aim of get- ting to know the history of the band, some of their most famous songs, their lyrics and trying to understand the importance of the band in music. The aim of this project is that students give a speech on different issues related to the band.
In order to do that, we are going to work individually and in pairs on the following topics:
1. Liverpool
2. The Beatles birth, development and split
3. John Lennon with The Beatles
4. John Lennon solo career
5. Paul McCartney with the Beatles / solo career
6. Ringo Starr
7. George Harrison
8. Songs and Lyrics
Students will work on one of the following topics in order to prepair a 3-minute speech. This speech will be recorded in mp3 format and used in a video or power point presentation so that it can be showed to the rest of the group. Besides, every student (we are just 8 in class) will choose one song by The Beatles and with the help of the teacher they will prepare two activities for each song. One of these activities must be on Phonetics (ie. underline all the words in the songs which contain a particular sound, match the phonetic transciption of a line (or two) with the actual line, ...). Once they have been checked, they will be used in class.
As a warm-up, you can visit the following web page and watch a video on the early Beatles. There are
quiz questions for you to answer. Good luck!
Picture by ahh
