老师：Hello everyone, welcome back to my class. Today we will go our study in Unit 5, Music, reading and thinking. In our last lesson, we read a text called the Virtual Choir, and we got a better understanding of the key elements to form the virtual choir, who, where, what, why and how. We also Learned the background information of Eric Vitka and his works.
老师：Today we will go on exploring the text, the virtual choir. In this class, you will draw a mind map to show how the text is organized. You will analyze the writer's attitude towards the virtual choir. You will also identify the meaning of the new words and expressions related to the virtual client, and draw a mind map about what music means to you. Are you ready? Okay. Now let's get started. Do you still remember the timeline of Eric Vitka? Please listen to the 2nd and the third paragraph and have a review.
学生：The virtual choir was the idea of award winning composer and conductor Eric Whitaker. Born in the USA on 2nd January 1970, Whitaker began studying music at the university of Nevada. In 1988, he fell in love with Mozart's classical music when he sang for the university choir. Moved by this music, he said.
老师：It was like seeing color for the first time.
学生：He graduated from university in 1995 and then received a master's degree in musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997. Over the next 10 years, Whitaker's original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and singers. This led to the creation of the virtual choir. In 2009, Whitaker received a video of a girl who was singing one of his works. Inspired, he asked his fans to make videos, which he then joined together into one performance. His first virtual choir, Lux, or rump, had 185 singers from 12 different countries. It has received millions of views on the internet. Since then, the virtual choir has become a worldwide phenomenon. Whitaker's next effort was the Virtual Youth Choir for UNICEF, which was first seen on stage on 23rd July 2014 in the UK. Altogether, 2292 young people from 80 countries joined in to sing Whitaka's song. What if.
老师：The homework in our last lesson is to think about why the writer mentioned the numbers and days in the text? If you feel it's difficult to answer the question, let's think about it in other way. What will you write when you write about a person? You will introduce who he is, what he has achieved, how he grew up, and what education he received. Do you think those numbers are very important and why? Yes, it's very important to use the data as supporting evidence when organizing an article, as it is more convincing compared to a general introduction or argument.
老师：Now let's come back to the question, why are these years important for Eric? On January 2n
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