Ss will watch a very emotional video about a girl who overcomes and learns to play the violin. The commercial feeds into the reading perfectly because both main characters are deaf. T: There are 3 characters in the film. An old man, and two young girls. While watching the film, I want you to think of 1 word (How many words?) for each person. I also want you to assign a number to each person based on how important you think music is to that person. 1 means music isn't important to them at all. 10 Means music is very important. After we watch the video, Ss will do small group discussion, and answer my questions. We'll quickly do WCFB and I'll elicit some answers from a couple of Ss, then Ss will go back to groups and answer. T: Now I want you to assign a number to yourself 1-10, and I want you to talk about what you think your life would be like if you couldn't hear, and what sounds you would miss most. Would you miss music? Ss again will break into small groups and discuss, and then we'll again do WCFB.

Students will read the title and small caption at the top of the article and they will make predictions about what they think the article is going to be about. T: Please read the title, this small caption, and look at the picture. What do you think the article is going to be about?

Ss will then read through the article once, and they will find why the writer chose the title. After they read the article once, they will then read the first paragraph again and do exercise c. T: In paragraph 1, is says, "[the boy became] frozen as a cacophony of sounds attacked me.]. Paragraph 1 also says, "the whir of the computer, the hum of the air conditioning, the clacking of the keyboard] And in the last paragraph, it says that Austin is still "learning how to hear" and develop to "ignore unwanted noise". Can you discuss with your partner what you think it would be like to hear nothing your whole life, and then hear everything at once.

Ss will read the rest of the article again, and then with a partner they will do ex. e. Say why the article mentions the following pieces of music or artists.

Ss will now have an opportunity to discuss the text more in speaking exercises. 3f) Why do you think.... Austin's experience... help us understand more about musical taste? What music would you recommend to Austin. Then we'll move to pg. 55 - 2, Do you have a favorite kind of music? etc. At this stage, I will put the Ss in groups of 3, however if only 4 Ss show up, then I will probably make this stage a class discussion.

This is a back-up activity in case the class moves too quickly. I will have a worksheet ready to give Ss that different musical instruments as well as their names scrambled. Ss will unscramble the names, and we will do MFP together. If we don't have time, I will still give Ss this worksheet as a take away.