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Unit 6: encouragement and types of musical instruments

Lessons 45–46 · 2 lessons · Susannah Reed with Kay Bentley. Guess What! Student’s Book 3 (Grade 3), Uzbekistan edition, 2022. Cambridge University Press; Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan, USAID
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CLIL Music: what type of musical instrument is it?

Textbook: pp. 76–77
GoalName types of musical instruments: string, wind, percussion.
New words
string instrument · torli asbobwind instrument · puflama asbobpercussion · zarbli asbobdutar · dutor
Explanation

Groups of instruments: string (guitar, violin, dutar), wind (recorder, flute, nay), percussion (drum, doira). Strings vibrate, in wind instruments air goes through a tube, and percussion instruments are hit. Sentences: “A guitar is a string instrument.” “A doira is a percussion instrument.”

Worked examples
The recorder is a wind instrument. You blow into it.
The doira is a percussion instrument. You hit it with your hands.
Class activity

“Guess the sound”: the teacher plays (or shows) an instrument; children say “It’s a string / wind / percussion instrument.” Then sort cards into three groups.

Practice
1
Which group is the guitar in?
2
Which group is the doira in?
3
Which group is the nay (reed flute) in?
4
Name one wind instrument.