江苏省常州市西夏墅中学高二英语课件：UNIT 3《THE WORLD OF COLOURS AND LIGHT——READING》1(牛津版选修8).ppt

1、牛津高中英语(模块八 高二下学期)Advance with EnglishUnit3 Reading 1Visiting the mastersUnit 3:Reading 1课件描述：本课件通过设计与所给阅读材料相关的练习帮助学生了解几位著名的绘画大师，通过表格等形式帮助学生获取必要信息，进行复述，并掌握具体阅读策略。Watch the video and answer the questions.Watch the video and answer the questions.1.Do you know the name of the film?2.Which famous artist

2、and his masterpiece are mentioned in the film?Lead-inThe Davinci CodeMona Lisa/the Last SupperLeonardo da Vinci Do you recognize them?Pablo PicassoSelf-portraitVan GoghSunflowersStarry Night ReadingVisiting the mastersAn _ from _ to his friend about his visit to some famous _.emailLi Mingart museums

3、Go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in Part A on Page34.1.Which countries has Li Ming visited on his trip?2.How many days did they spend in Paris?3.What did Monet love to paint when he was older?1.How many famous artists are mentioned in the e

4、mail?Who are they?five2.How many museums are mentioned?What are they?fivea museum in Spain Louvre Museum Musee dOrsay Van Gogh Museum Museum in AmsterdamSpainParis,FranceHolland the NetherlandsFast readingPart ASpain(Malaga)France(Paris)Holland(Amsterdam)reading a travelloguea record that someone ma

5、kes of his or her tripthe purpose of the tripwhere the author wenthow long the author stayed in each place what the author saw and did what the author thought about the places he or she visited Reading strategy:Nationality:Pieces of art:Jobs:Famous painting:Spanishmore than 20,000paint;make sculptur

6、es;work with all kinds of media cubism a style of painting which often uses acute angles and where the world is represented as being constructed of cubes and rectangles.Pablo Picasso Malaga,SpainMona Lisa(1503-1506)his masterpiecea lady with a mysterious smileNationality:Jobs:Italianpainter,architec

7、t,Scientist and engineerLeonardo da VinciThe Louvre Museum_ _ _ the works of da Vinci,it has more than _ other European paintings,which _ _ the 13th_the 19th_.We cant find any _ in it.If you want to see the modern painting,you will have to go to another museum _ Musee d Orsay.The Musee dOrsay6,000ra

8、nge fromcenturymodernpaintingscalledtoIn addition toClaude Monet(1840-1926)love to paint the water liliesfloating on the surface of a pondImpressionism(French)Nationality:Number of his art works:His masterpieces:Dutch800 oil paintings and 1,600 drawingsType of art:impressionismSunflowersStarry Night

9、(1889)The Potato Eaters(1885)Amsterdam,HollandVan Gogh Vincent van Gogh painted these sunflowers after leaving his native Holland for the south of France with the dream of starting an artistic community.He began to paint sunflowers to decorate a bedroom for his friend Paul Gauguin.The series of pain

10、tings was made possible by the innovations in manufactured pigments in the 19th Century.Without the vibrancy of the new colours,such as chrome yellow,VanGogh may never have achieved the intensity of Sunflowers.These most famous of all sunflowers in art hold at their heart a simple parable about the

11、brevity of life;they are at varying stages in the life cycle,from withered and wilting to vibrant full bloom.What have you learned from Van Goghs experiences?No cross,no crown.Nationality:His masterpieces:Time of birth and death:RembrandtDutch(1606-1669)The Night Watchman(1642)Focus on new vocabular

12、y Ask the students to read through the email and underline the unknown words they meet with and try to guess their meanings from their contexts.After the activity,check up Part D with the whole class.Open-ended discussion1.Is there an art museum in your city or town?If there is one,have you visited it?If you have,what do you think of the art there?2.Do you think we need art museums?Why or why not?3.Do you think art is important?Why or why not?