Welcome IDENTITY Md Abu Abdur Rahman Siddiquee M

Welcome

IDENTITY Md. Abu Abdur Rahman Siddiquee (M. A, B. Ed) Senior Assistant Teacher (English) Jagarani M. L Girls’ High School Newashi, Nageswari, Kurigram. Master Trainer, UITRCE- BANBEIS. E-mail: siddiquee [email protected] com Contact No. 01743943113 English for Today Subject Code: 107 Class : 8 Section: A Total Ss: 43 Present Ss: 40 Duration: 40 Minutes Date: 04/01/2021

Look at the pictures and tell them; Radha Romon Shah A. Karim Abbas Uddin Abdul Aleem

Ferdousi Rahman Kuddus Boyati Lalon Shah Jasim Uddin

Our folk songs Unit: 1, Lesson: 1 Page: 02

Learning Outcomes After we have studied the lesson, we will be able to… v v read and understand text through silent reading; infer meaning from context; identify the names of folk songs and their instruments; ask and answer questions.

Pair Work Time: 05 minutes Read out the musical instruments and answer the questions: dotara sarinda guitar tabla piano harmonium bamboo flute ek-tara Drum violin 1. Can you sing a song? 2. Can you play any of these musical instruments? 3. Do you know anybody who can play of these instruments?

Read the text carefully

Key words Time: 04 minutes Folk = Musical = is the adjective of music. people, especially those of a particular group or type a performance art that combines songs, Instruments = a tool or implement, specially one for precision work.

Dotara Sarinda Violin Tabla Guitar

harmonium drum Ek-tara bamboo flute Piano

What are the people dong? They are singing folk songs and using our traditional musical instruments.

Bangladeshi folk singers A • Salma Akhter • Fakir Alamgir B • Shyam Sundar Baishnab • Momtaz Begum • Nadira Begum • Saidur Rahman Boyati D • Badrunnesa Dalia • Bidit Lal Das • Shushama Das K • Kala Mia M • Chandana Mazumdar • Pilu Momtaz R • Indra Mohan Rajbongshi • Kiran Chandra Roy S • Shithi Saha • Kangalini Sufia U • Kasim Uddin

Individual Work Time: 07 minutes 1. Who usually likes our folk songs? 2. Can you name some well known folk singers? 3. Do you like folk songs? If you do, who is your favourite folk singer?

Polligiti Bhatially Bhawaiya Jari Sari Gambhira

Lalongiti Palagaan Songs of Hasonraja Polligiti, Bhatially, Bhawaiya, Jari, Sari, Gambhira, Lalongiti, Palagaan, songs of Hason Raja are very popular folk songs in Bangladesh. The traditional musical instruments are usually played with these songs.

Group Work Time: 08 minutes 1. Look at the musical instruments in A above and say which instruments go well with the folk songs? 2. Discuss the modern instruments like the guitar and the piano could be played with the folk songs.

Learning Assessment Time: 08 minutes 1. What is folk song? 2. Tell some name of our folk songs. 3. Make a list of our musical instruments of folk songs.

Do you want more or less programmes on folk songs on our TV channels? Why not?