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What different types of music are there and why do people listen to them?

Why do you think music effects people?

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Quick-Fire Questions

  1. What types of music do you like to listen to, and why?
  2. Describe some different ways that people use and listen to music.
  3. How do you feel when you listen to music that you like?
  4. What musical instrument would you love to play, and why?

Key Words -
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Music: the art of composing and performing vocal, instrumental and natural sounds.

Listen: giving your active attention to sounds you hear.

Be The Teacher -
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Weather someone is lisening to pop rock dance country or classical — music have the power to make us all smile

Stretch Yourself...

Write a short newspaper article about how music can affect people.

Go Create...

Create a playlist of different music you like for different moods/situations you are in, e.g. running, to be calm, to sleep to.

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