Step 1 Warming up

Ask the Ss to match some new words with the correct English meanings. Then ask them to look at the paintings in this unit and discuss the questions in Warming Up in groups of 4. Next, get them to answer the other questions in pairs. At last , check the answers with the whole class.

Show them on the Screen.

T hen ask Ss to give their opinions to fill the task listed in the Warming-up

Step 2 Pre-reading

Get the Ss to discuss the questions in pre-reading in pairs. Then check the answer with the whole class, if they have no idea, use the materials previously prepared to let the Ss have some acquaintance with the knowledge of art and artists.

Step 3 Reading

Task 1 Scanning

Show some questions on the screen.

1. What were the artists interested in from 5th to 15the century AD?

2. How did Masaccio

3. paint his paintings?

4. Why did the impressionists have to paint quickly.

Task 2 Scanning

Let the Ss red the passage again and get the main idea of it. Then complete the chart(on the screen) no their own.

Task 3 Explanation

There are so many... that it would be impossible to ...

The sentence means that there are too many different styles of /western art to introduce in a short passage.

　People became more focused on... and less on...

　It tell us that people pay more attention to humans than religion

If the rules of perspective had not been discovered, people would not have been able to paint ...

The sentence means that people discovered the rules of perspective, so that they painted such realistic pictures.

Step 4 Comprehending

Ask the students to read the passage again and deal with Exercises.

Step 5 Homework

1. Underline the time expression in the reading passage.

2. Retell the passage with the help of the chart about the text.

3. Discuss the question in Exercise 3 on page 3.