Unit 1 Art READING

Teaching aims

1) Enable students to learn something about the Western arts and learn how to describe a painting.

2) Enable the students to learn the different styles of the Western arts.

3) Target language

Teaching important points

How to make students tell the characteristics and styles of the Western arts.

Teaching difficult points

How to develop students' reading ability

Teaching aids

A multimedia and a blackboard

Teaching procedures

Step1 Lead-in

Show some pictures painted by students

Step2 Pre-reading

Ask the students some questions:

1. Can you name some famous Western or Chinese paintings and painters? Who are your favorite painters, from China and from other countries?

2. The following paintings are all very famous. Can you guess their names and their painters? 3.Match the words with the