教学设计

课 题 Unit1. Art reading 主备人 辛贻群 教学目标 1. Knowledge aim: Enable the students to know something about art.

2. Ability aim: Develop the students' reading ability by skimming and scanning the passage.

3. Emotion aim: Stimulate students' sense of beauty.

　Develop the students' sense of cooperative learning.

教学重点 Enable the students to learn something about the history of western art and to develop their reading ablility.

教学难点 Enable the students to talk about western paintings.

教学准备 1. Multi-media

2. The blackboard 教 学 设 计 增删补改 I. Learning aims.

Knowing something about art.

Develop reading ability by skimming and scanning the passage.

Stimulate the sense of beauty.

Develop the sense of cooperative learning.

II. Self-learning

Try to spell and learn the new words in this unit.

III. Communication

Lead-in and warming-up

1. lead-in

Lead in the new lesson by pictures of famous paintings, and then ask students to list other styles of paintings.

2. Warming-up

Show students some world famous artists and their works. Ask them to conclude the characters of Chinese and western paintings.

Pre-reading

Which do you think has a greater change in Chinese and Western countries? why?

And then introduce the new lesson--"a short history of western painting"

Reading

1.Skimming

a. What's the main idea of this passage?

b. How many periods of the paintings are mentioned in this text? what are they?

IV. Cooperative learning

Task. Group work.

Careful reading

a. Read para1 as quickly as you can.

Art is influenced by the _______and _______of a people.

c. Read the paragraph 2 together and fill in the chart.

period 1The Middle Ages (5th-15th century)

Characteristics of the paintings _______themes

full of________________

period 2The renaissance

features/characteristics:

1. focused more on ______ and less on ___________.

2. two developments:

a. ___________________

b. ___________________

3. artist: ________________

period 3: impressionism

features:

1. work _______

2. they are eager to show how_______ and ________fell on objects at different times of day.

period 4 :modern art

Read the last paragraph carefully and then summarize the style of modern art.

The impressionists' paintings were ____________ but today they are accepted as

___________of modern art. some modern art is _____,and some art is _________,their styles are __________.

V. Consolidation

Task 1: Fill in the blanks.

Below is a summary of the text with some words missing. Choose the words from the box and make the summary complete.

oil, realistically, perspective, shapes, detailed, outdoors, beginning, religious

Here are some of the most important styles of Western Art.

The Middle Ages

Painters focused on 1. ________ themes that showed their love for God. In the 13th Century, however, some painters began to paint religious scenes more realistically.

The Renaissance

Painters looked back at Roman and Greek ideas of art. Painters tried to paint things as they really were. They were helped by the discovery of 2. __________, which allowed people to feel as if they were looking into a picture. The development of 3. ________ paints gave painters richer and deeper colors to use.

Impressionism

With industrialization in Europe came new styles of art such as Impressionism in Paris. Impressionists mainly worked 4. ________. They had to work quickly as they depended on the daylight a lot, so their paintings were not as 5. ________ as those of the past. Because of this people at first said Impressionists were careless.

Modern Art

Today Impressionism is considered the 6. ________ of modern art. In abstract art the painter uses colors or 7. ________ to "represent" the realistic objects. On the

other hand,some modern artists paint so 8. ___________ that their paintings look like photographs. What new painting styles might the future bring? (By Ray Cama)