高二选修6 Unit 1 Art-Reading[教学简案]

Unit1 Art
I. 单元教学目标：
1． Talk about art and galleries
2． Talk about likes and preferences
3． Learn words in families
4． Use the subjunctive mood
5． Write a letter to give suggestion

II. 目标语言
1． 功能句式。
Talk about likes and preference:
I’d prefer…/ I’d rather…/ I’d like…/ which would you prefer…./ I really prefer…/ would you rather…/ would you like…or…
2. 词汇 
abstract, sculpture, gallery, consequently, belief, consequent, convince, shadow, ridiculous, controversial, nowadays, attempt, predict, aggressive , scholar…
3. 语法: the subjunctive mood
if I were you…./ I wish I could…
4. 重点句子
1. There are so many different styles of western art it would be impossible to describe all of them in a short text.
2. People became focused more on human and less on religion.
3. If the rules of perspective had not been discovered, people would not have been able to paint such realistic pictures.
4. At the time they were created, the impressionists’ paintings were controversial but today they are accepted as the beginning of what we now call “modern art”.
5. It is amazing that so many great works of art from late-19th century to 21st century could be contained in the same museum.

III. 教材分析。
本单元以ART 为主题，主要介绍了西方绘画监视，描写了曼哈顿最好的艺术长廊。帮助学生了解更多的有关美术的背景知识，分析中西艺术史上各大流派的特点，指出其代表性的画家和作品，并对中西方的绘画艺术进行比较。
1． Warming up 部分要求学生运用相关目标语言对自己喜欢的艺术形式和流派展开讨论，并说明喜欢的原因。
2． Pre-reading 让学生有关画展或书中的艺术作品以及西方不同时期的著名画家。
3． Reading 介绍了西方绘画监视，不同的艺术流派，艺术特点及其代表性的画家和作品。
4． Comprehending要求学生在理解课文的基础上，写出三件有关西方艺术史的事和西方艺术分割变化大的原因。
5． Using language 是由reading, listening, discussing and writing 四部分组成，要求学生在了解艺术长廊相关知识的基础上，为当地举办的一场画展提出合理化的建议。

IV．课型设计与课时安排
Ist period    reading
2nd period     language point
3rd period     grammar
4th period     listening and talking
5th period     speaking and writing

The first period
reading
Teaching Aims:
Help the students to talk about the short history of Western painting.
Difficulty and importance：
Enable the students to talk about their opinions about different styles of Western art.
Teaching methods:
Skimming and scanning; individual, pair or group work discussion.
Teaching aids:
A computer and a projector, a recorder, and some famous paintings.

Teaching Procedures:
StepⅠ
Warming Up
1. Show some paintings to students to put forward the topic ---paintings
2. Let students discuss some familiar Chinese painters and their paintings and a famous painting of Leonardo da vinci.
3. Match some new words in column A with the correct English meanings in Column B.
A                       B
b. abstract---------1. accurate
c .existence--------2. state or fact of existing
d. detailed---------3. being in thought but  having a physical or practical existence
 
Step II:
Reading
1. Scanning:
Read the passage as quickly as you can to find out the answers to the questions on the screen
•  What were the artists interested in from 5th to 15th century AD?
•  How did Masaccio paint his paintings?
•  Why did the impressionists have to paint quickly?
2. Careful reading
•deal with exe.2 on page 3
   •do five questions to check students’ understanding.
    
Step III
Listening
Listen to the tape and finish the chart on PAGE3 of
BEST ENGLISH.

StepⅣ
Go through the passage and analyze the characters of each period.
Now that we have learned the passage, can you tell me:
1. What is the writing style of the passage?
2. How about the writing characteristic?

StepⅤ
Homework:
1 Underline the time expressions in the reading passage.
2 Retell the passage with the help of the chart about the text.
3 Discuss the questions in Ex 3 on page 3.