{"id":809,"date":"2018-02-13T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T01:56:12","slug":"lesson-24-discussing-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/english-learning\/lesson-24-discussing-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 24 \u2013 Discussing music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-summary\">Summary<\/p>\n<p class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-aim\">Taking part in a group discussion and sharing opinions and thoughts<\/p>\n<p class=\"mycourse-lessondetail-desc\">The topic of the\u00a0lesson\u00a0was music. I had time to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>talk about different<strong> genres of music<\/strong> and how they make\u00a0me feel<\/li>\n<li>develop vocabulary related to music and <strong>phrases for feelings and emotions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>focus on \u2013ed and \u2013ing adjectives<\/li>\n<li>focus on the phonetic alphabet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Music is part of my life &#8211; perhaps saying this may be a bit exaggerating, but I do usually listen to music at different moment of my life &#8211; on bus, doing revision, reading and all that jazz. Yet, it&#8217;s a shame to tell you that I&#8217;ve not been to any concert, not even once &#8211; If I go, I prefer to the VIP zone because I could see the singer closely, otherwise, there is no reason for me to the live show.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, we could access to the Internet and so to the Youtube anyway all over the world &#8211; you know? You could get access to the WWW even on plan En-route. Therefore, I&#8217;ve not bought any CD from warehouse for almost ten yrs. It&#8217;s hard to believe in though.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, my sister have just back for Traditional (Lunar) Chinese New Year and we discussed about music &#8211; I realize that I am quite odd since I have no idea what she listens to. My playlist is combination of those music produced a year or even few years ago &#8211; anyway &#8211; I am not looking for the latest music. On the contrary, I choose music in terms of various factors &#8211; the rhythm, tone\u00a0 and beat, sometime I repeatedly play the same lists of music because of the lyrics and theme. Also, the quality is considered &#8211; I can&#8217;t stand those with noise or poor version. Stereo is the best!<\/p>\n<p>Not gonna lie, I can&#8217;t tell the genres of music although I usually play music. So, the lesson is vary useful to me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n[Genres of music]\n<ol>\n<li>musical<\/li>\n<li>disco<\/li>\n<li>hip hop<\/li>\n<li>rap<\/li>\n<li>folk<\/li>\n<li>classical<\/li>\n<li>Dangdut<\/li>\n<li>Instrumental<\/li>\n<li>indie &#8211; 90&#8217;s music<\/li>\n<li>grunge &#8211; type of rock<\/li>\n<li>gregorian<\/li>\n<li>country<\/li>\n<li>rock reggae<\/li>\n<li>RnB<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To describe our <strong>feelings<\/strong> and <strong>emotions<\/strong>, we could say something like:<\/p>\n<p>Example 1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I had one<\/span>\u00a0(musical) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">experience that was quite<\/span> (interesting).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(Ivy) asked me to<\/span> (go for the musical carnival). To be honest, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I wasn&#8217;t all that excited by the idea, but I knew how disappointed she would be if I rejected<\/span> her invitation,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> so I agreed<\/span> to go along with her.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The (funny) thing is,<\/span> as we were waiting<strong><em> in<\/em> <\/strong>the<strong> queue<\/strong> at the door, I bumped into my old schoolmate, Ming. I hadn&#8217;t seen him for years, but now he is\u00a0helping out as well as a manager\u00a0for the event and he helped us getting into the VIP zone.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">You can imagine how excited Ivy was<\/span> when that happened &#8211; she had always wanted to meet &#8220;SuperBoy&#8221; closely.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> I had expected<\/span> pop stars to be terribly<strong> big-headed<\/strong> and <strong>arrogant<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">but it was unbelievable to see<\/span> how kind they were to us and how interested they were in chatting to us, even though they must meet <strong>star-struck<\/strong> fans all the time.<\/li>\n<li>They even asked Ivy to go onto the stage for a game and gave her a hug. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I&#8217;ve never seen her so happy. It was quite moving, really.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The event itself was an unexpected pleasure. The band was totally\u00a0<strong>captivating<\/strong> &#8211; they really knew how to get the crowd dancing along with the &#8220;SuperBoy&#8221;. What was really stunning was the<strong>\u00a0Choreography\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">it was amazing how professional the dancer were.<\/span> I even stared dancing as well &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I though that would be<\/span> embarrassing<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, but it wasn&#8217;t, because<\/span> there were thousands of participants in beach doing the same thing and more importantly, they were looking at the band instead of me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Example 2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">My worst experience of music was when<\/span> Ivy <em>from school <\/em>wanted to celebrate her birthday in karaoke room, instead of having a party in a restaurant, like we normally do.\u00a0 She was really excited those &#8220;music&#8221; about a <strong>chart-topping<\/strong> techno DJ and wanted us all to dance with her. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A part of me had doubts about it beforehand, especially when I was<\/span> preparing for my final exam of the semester.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> I really didn&#8217;t want to go, but I didn&#8217;t want she to be disappointed, so I went along with it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I didn&#8217;t mind\u00a0paying a huge amount just to get into<\/span> the karaoke room for food because I had not planed to dance, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">but what was really shocking was<\/span> others she invited. Her friends were boldly smoking in the room although the big sign of forbidden smoking was showing on the wall. Indeed, Ivy knew that smoking\u00a0get under my skin. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It\u00a0made me angry, because I felt like I was being betrayed.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>For me, the techno music is just deafening and kind of terrible noise. I prefer seating in decent restaurant, chatting with each an other while we could enjoy a feast. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Anyway, at least Ivy was having a good time, I suppose.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I went home as soon as I could.<\/span> On Monday, Ivy sent me a message, &#8221; I didn&#8217;t enjoy the party since\u00a0I noticed\u00a0your annoying &#8211; I cannot feel happy if you don&#8217;t&#8221; I didn&#8217;t know how to give here a further reply &#8211; but it could be my &#8220;worst experience of music&#8221; &#8211; in contrast, it is the best party I have joined &#8211; we do treat each an other as an important person in our life. It&#8217;s kind of unexpected bad experience that we could accept<strong> every now and then<\/strong>?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Taking part in a group discussion and sharing opinions and thoughts The topic of the\u00a0lesson\u00a0was music. I had time to: talk about different genres of music and how they make\u00a0me feel develop vocabulary related to music and phrases for feelings and emotions focus on \u2013ed and \u2013ing adjectives focus on the phonetic alphabet. 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