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I Organizational information:
Author's Name & Surname:ElżbietaNiczyporuk
School subject: Music
Class:1st
class of middle school
Planned duration of lesson: 45min.
Lesson subject: Human voice, our first instrument.
General aims:
to familiarize students with construction of the speech apparatus;
to discuss the process of sound's extraction;
to listen to music examples of prominent artists;
Operational aims:
Student:
is familiar with terms: diapason, soprano, mezzosoprano, tenor, alto, baritone, bass,
mutation;
is able to make an analysis of heard songs in respect of types of human voice;
can name and situate in the picture parts of body, used to sound's extraction – larynx,
vocal cords, resonators, midriff, mouth, palate, tongue;
is able to describe with own words the process of sound's creation;
sings emission exercises;
Methods of work:
talk,
discussion/brainstorming,
work with text,
analytical listening to music,
music game,
singing;
Forms of work:
collective,
individual,
group work,

2. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Materials and teaching hints:
CD Player,
CD with „Skołuba's Aria” of S. Moniuszko,
CD with „Wish” of F. Chopin,
keyboard,
A4 size papers,
laptop,
II Course of the lesson:
- organizational tasks;
- discussion with students about the role of speech and singing in everyone's life;
- supplementing the acquired knowledge by a presentation about the mechanism of speech
and singing shown from a laptop, introduction of terms: larynx, vocal cords, resonators,
midriff, mouth, palate, tongue; (students are showing this organs on their body – as far as
possible)
- playing scenes in pairs – students incorporate themselves in roles of vocal cords and
according to vocals of the leader – in low or high register – they draw together and rise or
recede and squat;
- doing emission exercises, focusing on didactic value of improvisation and sound
imagination;
- making posters with voice's pyramid – from the highest to the lowest;
- checking the diapason of a chosen (eager) students in base of melody of
„Wlazłkoteknapłotek”;
- listening to music examples where students indicate names of human voices (soprano, alto,
baritone, etc.);
- end of the lesson, farewell;
The lesson plan was translated by Milena Chmielik, a student of the 3rd grade of middle school.